Posted by denise528 on March 28, 2004, at 11:43:57
In reply to Is any of this research on SSRIs really legit?, posted by Lindsay Rae on March 21, 2004, at 11:48:52
Hi,
Yes I have taken many SSRIs in the past and my experience has been if they are going to work then they all will if they're not then none of them will work with the exception of prozac that was the only one that seemed to do nothing.
Years ago Seroxat (paxil) worked pretty much the same for me as Sertraline (zooloft), I had a robust response to both although Seroxat felt stronger. Years later I tried Seroxat, sertraline, citalopram, prozac and none worked.
Two years after that Seroxat didn't have the awful effect it had the second time round and seemed to work slightly although not as good as the first time round. Just goes to show you never know, worryingly there is no tried and trusted formula, neither the doctors or the psychiatrists really know how these drugs work.They seem to have this theory that the drugs take a month to 8 months to work based on some sort of down regulation theory. I know that not to be the case, in the past they've worked for me within days. I tried telling my doctor that and could have hit him when he suggested it was a placebo effect!! There was no way it could have been placebo, if that was the case then hypnotherapy would have worked for me, accupuncture too! The same doctor also tried to suggest that they weren't working because I had some sort of personality disorder even though they had worked really well years before. I've never been to see that doctor since.
I really hope within my heart that with the advent of Pet scans and such they'll to start to get to the bottom of the fundamentals of depression and all other mental illnesses. The thing I hate about depression, is you can't see it and I always feel like such a "fraud" for even saying I suffer from it.
Denise
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