Posted by SpreadDaALoha on April 1, 2003, at 6:52:26
In reply to Re: going back on zoloft--HELP!!!, posted by Rach on January 7, 2001, at 9:20:46
It's so hard to pinpoint the effects of meds because so many things change in my life and you can't tell if it's the med quitting or your life stress increasing.
I was up to 150mg of Zoloft. I was only on Zoloft for, let's see, 4 or 5 months. It seemed to help a lot with depression/anxiety and I liked to go out more (social anxiety is perhaps my primary trouble, but now I am supposedly Bipolar II). But my boyfriend had a sudden, unexpected suicidal (or mixed BP, I don't know) episode, was hospitalized, and we broke up spontaneously--it was absolutely awful. Of course I had normal sadness/anxiety, but it was severe. I eventually quit the Zoloft, wondering if it had lost its efficacy.
So I am wondering what percentage of people experience SSRI's quit working. Honestly, it seems like this happens with everyone? My psychiatric condition is chronic, and I need to remain on drugs that don't stop working...
So I wonder which drugs are known to work for longer periods of time? Should I go back on Zoloft? My current doc doesn't seem to like SSRI's at all (I hear him prescribing wellbutrin, other newer antidepressants like Remeron, and MAO's, lithium, provigil, anti-eplileptics, but not SSRI's). Hmmmmm...
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