Can Exercise Counteract Depression Meds?

Hmmm, you may have had some metabolic problems prior to the medicine that were the root of it, and now that you're on it and you feel better, working out is tapping more resources than your body has. What was your activity like before this and what are you currently doing? I, for example, have low blood sugar but weight lift a lot, but I'm only able to do it maybe three times a week because I have to watch my sugar levels. If I were to work out too much I'd get depressed, irritable, angry and so forth.

My activity level before was pretty much at "couch potato" before I started working out and watching what I eat.

I hadn't considered any metabolic problems though, so that might bear further investigation. Should I ask for any specific tests to be run?

And thank you very much for the reply.

It's always good to have thorough testing done before deciding to take any anti-depression medications. Why? Well, for some reason Western medicine still hasn't gotten that our minds are not separate from our bodies. In some cases, when someone has had a horrid life, often the mind really is the problem. However, in the majority of cases in America, in my opinion, at the root of the problem is something wrong with the way they're living, not the way they're thinking. I myself was getting horrid depression, delusions, temper outbursts, terrible panic attacks and so forth. It eventually got so bad I was contemplating suicide at least once a day, if not more. They wanted to give me medication almost right off the bat, but I wouldn't budge until I knew I had cleared ever possible angle. I tested for this and that and this and that. Eventually they discovered, not sure how, that my liver was severely inflamed. That started proper investigations. However, even in that case I didn't figure out for certain what I had until two years later, by accident. What really made me angry was the first thing I wanted tested for was hypoglycemia, but the doctor I spoke with, who was not my family doctor, literally said to me 'doctors don't like to do that test because it's long and annoying, besides if you have that you can just go eat some lifesavers'. I figured it wasn't that serious of a disease so I didn't push the issue, had I I would have saved myself three years of pain. That's why I always stress to people that they need to test for as much as possible before taking any medication, make sure there isn't something at the root of the problem. Brain chemicals responsible for depression and anxiety are easily knocked out of kilter by poor eating, poor drinking and so forth. People just don't get how easy it is to screw up the mind by abusing the body, and I'm not talking through narcotics.