Posted by bob on June 12, 2000, at 15:41:17
In reply to Re: Cam - A question for a friend? » Greg, posted by Cam W. on June 12, 2000, at 10:08:11
Hey Greg, your friend's circumstances sound awfully familiar.
Zoloft was the first psychmed I was ever on. After 6 months on 100mg/d, my gp and I thought I was done with being depressed, it had worked so well ... so he pulled me off of it. (Yeah, cold turkey ... only made THAT mistake this once.)
Six weeks later, I was a basketcase. Far worse than I was before I went on Zoloft. He put me back on it, I started consulting a pdoc, and after another 4-5 months of being on Z at 150mg/d we gave up on it. It had nothing like it's original response for me. Subsequently, I tried paxil and prozac and zoloft again, the last two in combination with wellbutrin (P), lithium (P & Z), and finally nortriptyline (Z).
I don't know if my initial response to Z was a fluke or what, given my almost total non-response to SSRIs since ... given some of my behaviors towards the end of that initial trial of Z I think I was having a manic response to it more than anything. Anyway, once I started taking a TCA it didn't take long for me to figure out that I *did* respond to, well, at least nortriptyline better than any other AD I've been on.
I just hope you friend doesn't have the same experience I had -- that's two years I'd gladly forget (except for those first six months, maybe ...).
cheers
bob
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