Posted by Abby on October 6, 2000, at 15:30:59
I posted this message a few weeks ago, but nobody answered. I guess I'm sort of a prodigal daughter. Right now I am in that terrible stage which is not morbid depression, but where your horizons seems to narrow, and it's hard to find out how to get what I need. Any knowledge you guys have means a lot right now.
Thanks,
AbbyI just saw ---after getting passed around a bunch--the one full-time psychiatrist at my new University's
student health.
He seems okay, and he was thorough, but I don't know.Anyway, though he doesn't want to tamper with my meds, I get the feeling he's of the: "you should go off
medications at some point" school.He was surprised that I'd experienced withdrawal--which he politely called SSRI discontinuation
syndrome---when I tried to go off Zoloft even when I tapered.
He pulled off a compiled study comparing symptoms and rates of problems when withdrawing from
different SSRIs and one trycylic. Prozac was supposed to be easiest, and zoloft was second best. In the
small sample of zoloft patients (N=45) only one experienced any withdrawal.
I know that others here have experienced problems, but I'd love to be able to bring a study in rather than
saying I got something from a message board.
Law school is going pretty well for me, but I'm busy trying to set up my apartment. Yesterday I really
crashed. I was dragging myself around and couldn't study or concentrate at all. I woke up three times in the
night and got a terrible headache. My focus is better now, but it's not great. My lazy eye is getting lazy
again, and that's starting to distract me. I don't have time to go through all the posts, but I'll try to check in
again soon.
poster:Abby
thread:45886
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