First, I must state that I am not a licensed professional and do not recommend changing any drug treatment without the explicit instruction of a doctor. This information is personal. I am telling it as it happened to me.
I want to let everyone know there is a simple, easy way to come off of SSRIs. I had a terrible nightmare of a time over several months trying to come off 100mg/day of Zoloft after 5 years. It almost killed me.
Then I went to my doctor about it, who is just a GP/GYN, and he prescribed me Bupropion (generic Wellbutrin), which is the oldest anti-depressant on the market, with LOTS of clinical studies. It does not work on serotonin, the precursor for many neurotransmitters, but only dopamine and norepinephrine. It can be intolerable to some who have manic episodes so this must be done under the supervision of a licensed professional.
I titrated bupropion up from 25mg once a day, to 100 mg 3x a day within a couple of weeks. Then I stayed on it for a couple of weeks, and began titrating off Zoloft, by 25 mg every 5 days. I had practically NO WITHDRAWALS! I was off 100 mg a day of Zoloft within a month and then came off the Wellbutrin w/o any side effects at all.
I assume Big-Pharma doesn't want people to know about this because they make so much money off of keeping people addicted to it. I have never read this anywhere, nor can I find anything about this online. Its a secret I want out of the bag.
This is BIG NEWS for those of us who've suffered terribly from the side-effects of anti-depressants and could not get off of them without destroying their lives.
If you are reading this, spread it to any discussion sites on the subject you can find, This needs to get out.
Better health for all!
I want to let everyone know there is a simple, easy way to come off of SSRIs. I had a terrible nightmare of a time over several months trying to come off 100mg/day of Zoloft after 5 years. It almost killed me.
Then I went to my doctor about it, who is just a GP/GYN, and he prescribed me Bupropion (generic Wellbutrin), which is the oldest anti-depressant on the market, with LOTS of clinical studies. It does not work on serotonin, the precursor for many neurotransmitters, but only dopamine and norepinephrine. It can be intolerable to some who have manic episodes so this must be done under the supervision of a licensed professional.
I titrated bupropion up from 25mg once a day, to 100 mg 3x a day within a couple of weeks. Then I stayed on it for a couple of weeks, and began titrating off Zoloft, by 25 mg every 5 days. I had practically NO WITHDRAWALS! I was off 100 mg a day of Zoloft within a month and then came off the Wellbutrin w/o any side effects at all.
I assume Big-Pharma doesn't want people to know about this because they make so much money off of keeping people addicted to it. I have never read this anywhere, nor can I find anything about this online. Its a secret I want out of the bag.
This is BIG NEWS for those of us who've suffered terribly from the side-effects of anti-depressants and could not get off of them without destroying their lives.
If you are reading this, spread it to any discussion sites on the subject you can find, This needs to get out.
Better health for all!
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I was also taking anti-depressants, had been for two yrs. My pills were mild compared to the pills you were taking. Mine was Citalopram 20mg. Even so, when I decided, in my infinite wisdom, to stop taking them, without consulting my GP I might add.....stupid now I know in hindsight, I developed, what I now know is called, brain zapps!!!! After three days without pills I was experiencing what I can only describe as an electric shock zipping right through my brain, followed a few seconds of dizziness, this was happening at least ten times per day.In the end I went to see my doctor what had happened and although he had said to me that the pills weren't addictive as such, I still could not just stop taking them like I had. He went onto expalin to me that my brain had become accustomed to a chemical, and by just stopping them in the way I had was causing the brain zapps! He went on further to say that if I reduced the pills by half to 10mg, and took this ammount for at leat a month, then halved the ammount to 5mg, and took them for a further month, then and only then could I stop taking them, and would have no brain zapps! this I did, and it is now 6months since I have been off the pills and as he said I had no more problems and feel excellent! So my advice to everyone who is on anti-depressants no matter how low the dose...or how high, don't even consider for one moment that by just stopping them without speaking to your doctor first is the right thing to do, because you will feel worse, believe me!!!!! Take advice first!!!! Hugz to you all.
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