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 withdrawal - on my way! (Long!)

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I have to say that I'm really encouraged by just knowing that everything I'm feeling isn't "just me". Coming off of this drug has affected almost every facet of my life, but I am on my way to leaving it behind. It has taken me a month to drop down from 60mg to 30mg - I've been counting...

by TeresaA90869 over a year ago

Problems with zoloft withdrawel

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I'm living with a man that says he has been taking zoloft since 1972 and he has recently stopped taking it. I want to know what I should do to cope with him. He is irritabile, snappy, sleeps all the time, had mood swings and I ask him to get back on the medicine and he tells me that it is supposed...

by gafordgirl over a year ago

Zoloft: only 5 days and I can't take it anymore!

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My doctor prescribed me zoloft because I've had a few panic attacks related to acid reflux and a haitial hernia. It's only been 5 days and I've lost almost 6 pounds.. I am extremely thin as it is.. I can't eat.. everything tastes horrible. I feel like my stomach is not digesting food.. it's just...

by unicornucopious89809 over a year ago

Blues with zoloft w/d?

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I tapered off of Klonopin after 3 years. Last dose in April 08, and had all kinds of weird muscular w/d crapola. When that settled down, I tapered over 3 months off Zoloft - last dose 3 weeks ago. It may have been too fast, but I just wanted off the drugs altogether. I did get a return of w/d sx...

by catgraham7289107 over a year ago

The "blues" with zoloft w/d

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I tapered off of Klonopin after 3 years. Last dose in April 08, and had all kinds of weird muscular w/d crapola. When that settled down, I tapered over 3 months off Zoloft - last dose 3 weeks ago. I just wanted off the drugs altogether. I did get a return of w/d sx (muscular) and I'm dealing...

by catgraham7289107 over a year ago

Am I the only one who loves Effexor?

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This drug saved my life, literally. It worked when no other drug did. No other solution, period. I'm a martial artist, so I tried the eastern remedies first... but I honestly think that things like that are simply mind over matter.... and my cynical American brain wasn't about to let it work. I...

by Memory87961 over a year ago

zoloft side effects

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Hello I was reading your post about severve headaches due to zoloft I was prescribe a zoloft sample package and xanax and when i began to take the zoloft I had terriable headaches after i experience the headaches my life was changed at a blink of a eye I was in the hospital not knowing my husband...

by dorisann87188 over a year ago

How long can you safely use Wellbutrin

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I have suffered from depression for 18 years and have been on several different anti-depressents. I thought Wellbutrin was one you only took for a short time and then quit taking it. I have taken it now for four years. Do I have any hope to ever being symptom free?

by Guest over a year ago

Effexor vs Effexor XR dosage equivalents

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I have been taking Effexor for nearly 3 years now. I take 75mg 3 times daily. Recently i switched my prescriptions to mail order, and my doctor erroneously worte my script for Effexor XR 75mg 3 times a day. I was unknowingly taking this dosage for nearly a month before it was clear what had...

by Guest over a year ago

sleeplessness from cymbalta

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I have been on symbalta and stopped because I couldn't sleep. It has been 3 days now feel better withjout it but the sleeplessness persists. How long does it take for this stuff to get out of my systme? Took 30 mgs. and stopped cold turkey on the advise of my medicating physciatrist. ***edited...

by bob over a year ago