best anti-depressant medicine to use during treatments?

LaurynSister,   I had problems also and my MO prescribed Celexa (generic citalapram).  I tried Effexor for a week but suffered from bad headaches.  Hope this helps.

In general there's no "best" antidepressant.   It's a trial and error approach. They put you on one, see if you respond and have tolerable side effects, if not they switch you. Lather, rinse, repeat until you hit one that works. Then hopefully it doesn't poop out on you after six months or a year.

I fell into a weird knowledge gap between my MO and my psychiatrist.  I asked the which drugs are OK with chemo.  She said a psychiatrist would know all that.  Then I went to the psychiatrist, got put onto lamotrigine (not typically used for depression but I got it since I am bipolar).  I wanted to tell him my chemo drugs, he said he'd have no way to evaluate the interactions as he's not familiar with chemo drugs.  Oh well I could not find any info that it was a bad mix so I went on it, added the drug to my meds list at the MO, and the MO did finally give me an OK that it was not a problem with my treatment.

Melulv, how have you been taking prozac? My psychiatrist started me on 20 mg once a day the said we will titrate in 3-4 weeks depending on the response. Im kinda hopinh the 20mg will work. What dose are you in on?

Don't know if it's the "best", but I use Pristiq.  Was on Tamoxifen when started it.  It's a "cleaner" version of Effexor according to the shrink, not processed by the liver in the same way.  I figured that would be a good thing, considering how many meds we all wind up on during this journey. 

Unfortunately,  there's no generic yet and my co-pay if $50 for a one month supply.  Thankfully, shrink gave me a rebate card for the Brand so I only pay $35.