Posted by shnooky on April 21, 2003, at 1:06:16
In reply to Re: hellish withdrawals from Zoloft anyone?, posted by shnooky on April 20, 2003, at 17:35:28
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> > > Hi Katia, I really wish that we could talk on MSN or another chat line......I have a similar story to yours and I think I can help you!!
> > > Summer
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> > Hi Summer,
> > sure, if you can give an e-mail address or vice versa (I'd prefer the former). we can chat outside of here.
> > katia
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> Hi Katia, my email address is shanahalbert@hotmail.comHi again.......I had a bit of a time submiting a post, so I had to Register again, so my name migh show up as Shnooky!! Anyways I thought I would give you a little history of my Panic Disorder/Anxiety. I was diagnosed 41/2 years ago, and well I knew that it might happen to me, because both my parents have it also!!! My Dad has the same thing as me, and my mom's case is mostly Depression, but she also has experienced panic attacks. This went on for years as I was growing up, and their doctor had them taking Norpromine. My Dad also was taking Trilifon which is an anti-anxiety pill. It leaveled them off for years, but never did they feel 100%!! My dad did alot of reading on Serzone, and had his doctor switch him to it!!! After about 6 months, my mom was seeing how much better my dad was doing, so she switched to Serzone also!! They both say that they have never felt better!! My Dad still takes the Trilifon also to help out even more for the anxiety!! When I first was diagnosed, I was put on Zoloft 100mg a day........well having never experienced these spells before, I thought the panic and anxiety would never go away....but the doctor kept telling me it will get better, you just have to be patient! (Well easier said than done!!) But I was patient, and what do you know, after a painful 2months, I was finely me again!!
Of course I would still have an off day once in awhile, but it was completly tolerable, nothing like it was in the beginning! I remained on the Zoloft for 31/2 years, and the only reason I switched, was because, I had gained about 30lbs and I was sick and tired of my boyfriend complaining about the lack of Sex drive I had!!! I tried Effexor for 2 days and I hated it!! I totally know what those electric brain shocks are all about, and I totally believe it was the Effexor not the going off of the Zoloft, because when I stoped taking the Effexor I just immediatly started taking my Zoloft again and the shocks stopped!! A few months after that I thought I would give Serzone a try.....Why not, both of my parents are on it, and since our genetics are the same, there shouldn't be any problems!! So what my doctor did was lower my Zoloft down from 100mg a day to 75mg and started me taking 50mg a day of the Serzone all at once. Then the following week I went down to 50mg of Zoloft and then starting taking 100mg of Serzone. Then down to 25mg of the Zoloft with the Serzone, and then completly off the Zoloft to 300mg a day of Serzone. I had next to nothing for side affects when doing it this way and Apparently Zoloft and Serzone compliment each other very well, and can be taken together!!
My sex drive came back after awhile and after about 6months, I started to lose a few pounds here and there!! It's been almost a year since I've been on the Serzone, and just this past week I had a pretty bad spell with the Panic/anxiety..........It scared the shit out of me, because it's been 41/2 years since I experienced feelings like that!! I went and saw my doctor and he said first off, that this disorder is very seasonal for alot of people and that sometime after a really long winter the panic can worsen a bit for period of time and then relax itself out again!! But also that I wasn't at a really high dose, and since I told him that I was doing well on 300mg that he wasn't going to just up me!! But since I was feeling pretty rough, he thought it was time to up it to 400mg, (That is what my parents have been on for along time, so I wasn't nervous to do so!!) He also gave me some .5mg of Ativan, to have on hand to take when it gets really bad!! you can take up to 3 a day, but it's been 4 days and I've only taken 2!! It just calms you down a little bit when your feeling thoughs really bad panicy feelings!! So far so good, I'm definitly not getting worse, just gotta wait until the higher dose of Serzone is in my system!! I'll keep you posted on that!!
Well that's my story, sorry I know it's long!!
Summer
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