'Teen Mom 2' Star Leah Messer-Calvert Takes Prescription Meds, Says She Feels Like a 'Druggie'

By Sami K. Martin, Christian Post Reporter Monday, July 28, 2014

After enduring a great deal of stress, "Teen Mom 2" star Leah Messer-Calvert decided to get some help from her doctor and was put on medication. This week, viewers will get to see how Leah reacted to the medication and why she said she felt like a "druggie" for taking medication.

"I'm about to start crying over here," she tells husband Jeremy Calvert in the episode. "When I first take that medicine, I feel calm and I feel like I can do stuff. I took half of it this time instead of a full one and now I feel really messed up. Maybe it's just me thinking about it too much. I feel like I'm about to start crying because I feel like … I'm on drugs and I've never felt like that ever in my life. I don't like feeling like that. I feel like I'm slurring and I just feel really weird and I'm freaking out."

When Jeremy suggested Leah call her doctor to talk about how the medication made her feel, Leah refused and said that the doctor had warned her she may feel a bit loopy until she got used to it. Lately, Leah had been complaining about the amount of stress she was under: raising three daughters, one with special needs, trying to get everything her daughter needs, dealing with finances and having Jeremy be gone for work.

"It helps me at first and then I start feeling like a damn druggie," Leah tells Jeremy. "That's what I'm saying: It makes me feel bad. I don't want to feel slow. I don't want to look like that. But I know that I need it because it helps me at first … then throughout the day, I feel worse. It's starting to make me sad because I'm not that type of person. I've never took anything like that, so I'm starting to feel like, 'What's wrong with me?'"

Watch Leah's reaction to the new medication and see how she copes with life on "Teen Mom 2," which airs Wednesday nights on MTV.