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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 219755" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>If Zoloft can cause akethesia, and it did for me (I was in ER and they could barely get a pulse because it was beating so quickly and I had every physical symptom of akethesia) then so can Prozac or any antidepressant. Zoloft and Prozac are cousins. No doctors ever told me about akethesia. When I got it, I freaked out. Akethesia WAS my diagnosis. It was different than mania although it looked like it, but I was NOT in any way happy or irritable. I was freaked out by the icky feeling of wanting to just jump out of my own skin. I can't describe it any other way. It probably looked like I was hypo-manic because I could not stop pacing and I snapped a lot and cried about how I just couldn't stay still, but it was different. It's not anything I want to go through again and I know first hand that antidepressants can cause it. I'm guessing that almost any medication can. Depends on your body chemistry. BUT...there is also a withdrawal syndrome for SSRIs...so it could have been that too. As soon as they pulled me of the Zoloft, and they did NOT wean me, I started calming down. I had only been on it for a little while and what a nasty ride it was for me. And it wasn't fun to be hospitalized over it. It kicked off a depressive episode and screwed up my body chemistry to be pulled off of it, and took me several weeks to get stable while they tried another medication.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 219755, member: 1550"] If Zoloft can cause akethesia, and it did for me (I was in ER and they could barely get a pulse because it was beating so quickly and I had every physical symptom of akethesia) then so can Prozac or any antidepressant. Zoloft and Prozac are cousins. No doctors ever told me about akethesia. When I got it, I freaked out. Akethesia WAS my diagnosis. It was different than mania although it looked like it, but I was NOT in any way happy or irritable. I was freaked out by the icky feeling of wanting to just jump out of my own skin. I can't describe it any other way. It probably looked like I was hypo-manic because I could not stop pacing and I snapped a lot and cried about how I just couldn't stay still, but it was different. It's not anything I want to go through again and I know first hand that antidepressants can cause it. I'm guessing that almost any medication can. Depends on your body chemistry. BUT...there is also a withdrawal syndrome for SSRIs...so it could have been that too. As soon as they pulled me of the Zoloft, and they did NOT wean me, I started calming down. I had only been on it for a little while and what a nasty ride it was for me. And it wasn't fun to be hospitalized over it. It kicked off a depressive episode and screwed up my body chemistry to be pulled off of it, and took me several weeks to get stable while they tried another medication. [/QUOTE]
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