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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 288024" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>MWM is very right about withdrawal. I have been through it and heard my doctor tell me she had never heard of withdrawal from antidepressants. I printed out about 25 pages of reasonably reliable documentation on SSRI withdrawal. She was shocked! (Mostly because I challenged her and brought in info to back me up. but whatever, now she can't say seh doesn't know.) She did, last visit, comment to me about more patients admitting to withdrawal when she asked about it. They just thought they were going crazy. </p><p></p><p>There is an EASY way to help someone in withdrawal. You give them prozac. ONE dose every few days while you decrease the other antidepressant. Prozac stays in your system longer than any other antidepressant. So you can wean off it easier. It will take care of the withdrawal symptoms while still being at a low enough dose, given every other day and tapered down to 1 a week and then to 1 every other week (yes, one dose every other week, it stays in the system for about 2 weeks) and then to 1 a month and then no prozac and no other SSRI antidepressant.</p><p></p><p>If you are switching to another antidepressant that is an SSRI you can often just switch to that. Wiz is dependent on his antidepressants. He is on 3 of them,including strattera. But with-o the 3 of them he can't function. With them he can. It is simple for us to decide to give medications when even he sees how awful he is when he is off fo them. He hates it because he gets suicidal.</p><p></p><p>Effexor is a nasty awful drug. At low doses, the starting doses, it only affects the SSRI mechanism in your brain. At the higher level, the "therapeautic" level, it also affects the SNRI mechanism. It throws you into totally new symptoms, which the doctor then says can't possibly be the medication because you didn't have them at the starting dose. Most docs don't know enough about how it works. I learned this and then gave the doctor reliable info about it. her own research backed me up.</p><p></p><p>My docs get frustrated because I will not switch off of prozac. They cymbalta didn't work, even at an increased dose. Neither has any other SSRI and at one point I had tried 10 of them! Prozac is not as "clean" a molecule as some medications that are the prozac molecule "cleaned up" somehow. Makes no sense to me why I should switch away from a generic medication that works to a brand name I know nothing about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 288024, member: 1233"] MWM is very right about withdrawal. I have been through it and heard my doctor tell me she had never heard of withdrawal from antidepressants. I printed out about 25 pages of reasonably reliable documentation on SSRI withdrawal. She was shocked! (Mostly because I challenged her and brought in info to back me up. but whatever, now she can't say seh doesn't know.) She did, last visit, comment to me about more patients admitting to withdrawal when she asked about it. They just thought they were going crazy. There is an EASY way to help someone in withdrawal. You give them prozac. ONE dose every few days while you decrease the other antidepressant. Prozac stays in your system longer than any other antidepressant. So you can wean off it easier. It will take care of the withdrawal symptoms while still being at a low enough dose, given every other day and tapered down to 1 a week and then to 1 every other week (yes, one dose every other week, it stays in the system for about 2 weeks) and then to 1 a month and then no prozac and no other SSRI antidepressant. If you are switching to another antidepressant that is an SSRI you can often just switch to that. Wiz is dependent on his antidepressants. He is on 3 of them,including strattera. But with-o the 3 of them he can't function. With them he can. It is simple for us to decide to give medications when even he sees how awful he is when he is off fo them. He hates it because he gets suicidal. Effexor is a nasty awful drug. At low doses, the starting doses, it only affects the SSRI mechanism in your brain. At the higher level, the "therapeautic" level, it also affects the SNRI mechanism. It throws you into totally new symptoms, which the doctor then says can't possibly be the medication because you didn't have them at the starting dose. Most docs don't know enough about how it works. I learned this and then gave the doctor reliable info about it. her own research backed me up. My docs get frustrated because I will not switch off of prozac. They cymbalta didn't work, even at an increased dose. Neither has any other SSRI and at one point I had tried 10 of them! Prozac is not as "clean" a molecule as some medications that are the prozac molecule "cleaned up" somehow. Makes no sense to me why I should switch away from a generic medication that works to a brand name I know nothing about. [/QUOTE]
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