Antidepressants

Are you on antidepressants, about to start, or hoping to come off them? Antidepressants can be divided into the following classes: Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), Norepinephrine/noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (NRIs aka NERIs/NARIs), Dopamine reuptake inhibitors (DRIs), Opioids, Selective serotonin reuptake enhancers (SSREs), Novel antidepressants and Tetracyclic antidepressants. Discuss the benefits and disadvantages of different types of antidepressants on this forum, and share your experience.

Cymbalta taper done now but still feeling bad

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Hi this is my first post and am hoping that someone can help or identify with what I am going through. I have tapered off Cymbalta from 60mg over a period of 12 weeks. I took my last dose of 1 bead 3 days ago. Since then I have been feeling spacey, dizzy, teary and crying, feeling rage at the least...

by Guest over a year ago

my dad felt he was having a relapse of his depression and doesn't want to do much

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my dad is nearly 80 for the last 3 year's he has been taking 50mg of trazadone,,2 week's ago my dad felt he was having a relapse of his depression and doesn't want to do much, where has before Christmas he was never indoor's, alway's out visiting people doing activities and mixing with other people...

by dido over a year ago

how i tackle surgery and suboxone

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i have been on suboxone for 2 years and have had to major surgerys and from my experience i stop the suboxone 7 days before surgery and start taking norco 10/325 to transition over from subs, that way i do not go through any withdrawls and the post op pain meds work very well. then after i no longer...

by redfishmachine over a year ago

I am currently on day 6 of no Cymbalta and i'm in private hell

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I am currently on day 6 of no Cymbalta. I am in a private hell. How long will it take?! And why was there no warning of this when I was prescribed?! I am furious and would love to sue the Eli Lilly for every cent they have!! What I am going through (and from what I've read, many others also)is cruel...

by flik76314805 over a year ago

anyone taking 300mg of trazodone for sleep?

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hi i been taking sleeping pills for 26year now i been on so many sleeping tablet for years now so doctor put me on 100mg trazadone first 1wk than each week it want up to 200mg as been unable to sleep now today doctor put it up 300mg what i like to know is angone been 300mg anight and what it feel...

by Guest over a year ago

Zoloft Side Effects?

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I recently began seeing a therapist again for anxiety and depression and was prescribed one 25 mg of Zoloft every night. I took it about 3 years ago when I was 15 or so and only experienced foggy memory. I was on it for probably 5 months and the dose was probably higher but I don't remember what...

by Guest over a year ago

Stopped trazadone--- 6 weeks later, still dizzy 24/7

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Hi, I took trazadone for 8 nights (50 mg). Stopped because of all the negative side effects it was giving me, (including being extremely dizzy), and it's been about 6 weeks since my last pill and every day I am still so dizzy. Sometimes it's so bad that I wonder if I should be driving. While I...

by trazhater over a year ago

Want to wean off of Effexor, Wellbutrin and Gabapentin before conception...

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I've been reading all the horror stories about effexor and have been doing so for many years, especially about weaning off of it. For the last 6 months to 1 year I will sleep without waking up for nearly 24 hours if I miss a dose of my meds. It used to be just those brain zaps driving me nuts but...

by AfraidToTaper over a year ago

Zoloft withdrawal - day 6

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Thanks to everyone who has shared their experience with Effexor. It is a similar SSRI to the one that I have been on for 2.5 years (100 mg Sertraline (Zoloft). I am a 57 year old woman and began taking this drug around the time I reached menopause. It works to keep you from crying and being...

by ImaGrandma over a year ago

cymbalta withdrawal trial

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Hello everybody. Have been talking cymbalta for 6 months, from 30mg to 60 around 10 weeks now and have decided not to continue. Just out of curiosity, I read some stories this morning regarding posible side affects. WOW, all of a sudden became very worried after reading some horrific stories. Today...

by giancarlo over a year ago