Posted by olysi79 on March 4, 2005, at 23:50:09
In reply to Zoloft/Sleep Deprivation/cigerettes/Panic disorder, posted by loudandclear on March 4, 2005, at 15:38:46
Hi there, this sounds like a situation that i have been encountering as well. Not pleasant in the least. Nixon is right, go the mood stabilizer route for sure, but perhaps keep an SSRI in there. Has your doc discussed BP with you at all (not insinuating you're BP or anything- jsut checking all angles) Anxiety is quite central to mood instability to many people. Keep your ativan around, try a mood stabilizer, and keep some sort of SSRI in there. When things reach a crisis level, consider an atypical like Zyprexa to knock you out and "reset things" so to speak.
> Hello. First time poster. I have a few questions and concerns about occurances in my life, and am wondering if others experiece the same thing and or have any advice for me.
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> A short history. I've been on different SSRIs for about 2.5 years. First Celexa / Lexapro / and now Zoloft. I currently take 75 MG of Zoloft a day. I dont drink or do any other drugs. I occassionally take Advin for Anxiety and or panic.
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> It seems as of recent, If I loose a night of sleep, the next day I feel extremely self concious, and paranoid. I feel as if I'm in sort of a dream world or in the middle of an acid trip. What ends up happending, as the day goes on I become more paranoid. I begin to go into a state of anxiety and paranoia. At that pint Panic comes into play and I'm totally f-ed up. I usually have to take Adivan to control the panic. This is beginning to happen more frequently. It also seems to corrolate with the fact I'm dating a new girl. Last night she sleep over my place and before i fell asleep, I slipped into a panic attach ( not full blown) but pretty horrible. This is a new girl I'm dating and the fact the she is a sleep next to me and I in the corner having a panic attach is a lot for me to absorb.
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> Another side not. 3 months ago I went down on zoloft from 75 to 50 MG. I got sick, but after a month felt ok. So I went down to 25MG. This was fine for aboyut a week, until i totally lost mmy mind and was so scared for my life, that i had to go back up to 50MG. That seemed to help, but after a week, and a really late night and no sleep, I lost it again. And had to go up to 75MG.
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> If anyone has similar experiences, please write back. I'm not sure what to do. The zoloft is obviously not working so well anymore, and I really hate taking Adivan. (I dont want to have a nother drug in me). Can smoking cigerettes be messing me up as well?
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> Thanks for you time everyone.
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