"i had a septal infarct at age 46 last year which brought on overwhelming depression post recovery. not knowing i had had the heart attack (put it down to terrible upper epigastric pain). i suffered in bed with my own concoctions and obviously made it through this period.

i went to the doctors two weeks later with a feeling of major depression and did not inform her of the abdominal pain prior to this (didn&#039;t feel related). she started me on 50mg pristiq daily that made me feel much better in one week and my mood continued to improve over the next 3 months to better than i had felt in such a long time. i still take pristiq (1 year later) because i dread falling back into the major depressive episode i had even if it was related to the infarct."