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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.

weaning off Lexapro

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Ive been on Lexapro for five years now.  10 Mgs. a day.  Ive tried to wean myself off it before got scared and went back on it.  Today I feel great.  I am starting slow.  For the past three weeks, one day a week a cut a pill in half.  My God you wouldnt believe the withdrawals I am having from...

by User avatar Boogey Man

side effects of paroxetine 20mg

I suffer from bad depression and am going back on medication now. I never know whether I am better off with or without medication. Come to mention it, I always think meds sound great when I am not on them, but when I am, I can't wait to come off. In any case, it is paroxetine 20 mg for me this time...

by User avatar michel997178370

anti depresants

I’d like to hear some major things about anti depressants and alternative treatments of depression. How effective anti depressants are in post traumatic stress disorders and for how long therapy should last? Can depression be resolved without treatment? The doctor suggested my daughter to try...

by User avatar Guest

Cortisol reaction to SSRI's

I have been on lexapro for 2 yrs, 20-30 mg. I gained 40 lbs in the first 4 months. I found information that lexapro and other SSRi's are sending wrong info to the Hipothalamus Pitituary Gland (HPG)and this gland is sending too much glucorticoids, cortisol or whatever to the system causing an...

by User avatar vrlaboy66042

Quit Lexapro cold-turkey and want to re-start

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I was on Lexapro for about 6 months prior to quitting cold turkey about 4-5 days ago. I was out of my prescription, needed to refill it, and questioning whether or not I should continue taking it at all... The withdrawal symptoms took a while to onset and so it snuck up on me when I started feeling...

by User avatar ohkaty

ssri's

When you start taking a ssri and then switch over to a new one do you have to start all over on the 4 to 6 weeks for it to start kicking in or does it continue where the last one left off?

by User avatar Olivia726202

prozac and alcohol

I am on 20mg of Prozac daily. As my confidence and anxiety improves I want to go out and have afew drinks. Im afraid of the side effects, oviously I know i should not drink much but iv heard the hangovers are very powerful on prozac. Any advice please ?

by User avatar irish man94505

Hang in there

I've been on 150 mg venlafaxine (generic effexor) for a couple of years. The only way to get off this with minimal side effects is to taper *really* slowly. Each time I reduced a dosage, if I got uncomfortable side effects, I realised my body wasn't ready. Even my final taper (9mg) I stayed on for...

by User avatar Guest

Effexor XR withdrawal

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Hi, Can you please tell me what the withdrawal symptoms of weaning off of Effexor XR are, specifically ones that may relate to vision changes and ear pressure? I have been tapering very gradually with the help of a psychiatrist but had been on Effexor since it was brand new on the market (most of...

by User avatar MaryF-NJ124384

Using Trazodone for sleep and having weird side effects

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Hello, I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder and since I also started having major problems with insomnia that really exhausted me to point where I could barely talk, but still not be angle to fall asleep. That’s why my psych prescribed me Trazodone (she knows about my history with Ambien...

by User avatar Guest