Posted by Snoozy on May 7, 2003, at 23:21:05
In reply to kind of freaking out re: AD's, posted by bookgurl99 on May 7, 2003, at 22:43:02
Hi -
how great that you're feeling better! You haven't been on the Serzone long? Give it some time and you may feel even better. :) I don't think I've ever been on Serzone, but it sounds like you're off to a promising start.
On the more general philosophical question of being on meds for the rest of your life: for me, I've accepted it and it is what it is. I've been taking at least one daily medication since I was a teenager. Some of them are pretty benign, but some of them can have long-term effects. I know I'll be taking pills every day for the rest of my life, which would bug me if I still had to chew my pills (yecchh). A lot of people do. You can even be taking vitamins and supplements every day.
You haven't been on the Serzone long, so I would say just see how it goes for a while - you've got plenty of time to worry down the road ;-)
Please don't feel I'm making light of your feelings - I certainly don't mean anything like that. I'm just trying to say try and relax a bit for right now.
> I am freaking out, because I have had a mind that I did not recognize for a whole year. I was taking Zoloft, and had all this trouble concentrating, memory problems, unhappy, headache, low energy.
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> Now, after tapering off, and "barely" starting on Serzone again (at 75 mgs), I feel like my old self again. I'm happy, joking, don't feel as out of it. My brain feels faster, more accessible, but also controlled -- not manic.
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> Is this just a placebo effect? The positive benefit of not being on zoloft? (of which withdrawal made me feel like my brain was being dragged around by a shoe string somewhere).
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> I'm freaking out because I don't want to be on meds for life, and here I feel my best on this one particular med (which also has the black box liver warning.). Is it that it altered my brain permanently, so that now I _need_ it?
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> What gives?
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