Posted by Angela on June 2, 2000, at 11:47:29
i've posted to this board before and have always gotten good information, so please don't let me down now.
in late march, i went into a bad, bad depression and i thought i had worked myself out of it. my pdoc took me off celexa and started me on effexor xr and luvox. after a couple weeks, he took me off the effexor and started me on norpramin (desipramine). a couple weeks ago we stopped the luvox and i went back onto zoloft which had been on and had great success with about a year ago.
my question is this: i've been back on the zoloft for just over 2 weeks, and i'm still not at the dosage he wants me at, so i know i'm not at max dosage. how long will it be before the zoloft kicks in? i had heard that it could take up to 12 weeks to kick in, but i was thinking that since i had been taking an SSRI and the serotonin should still be there, wouldn't it take less time to kick in? could my system be all screwed up right now because i was on different meds for short periods of time?
as of yesterday, my pdoc added a small dose of BuSpar to my diet in the hopes that it will give the serotonin a kick. does it sound like i'm on the right track here and should be feeling better soon? i don't only deal with depression but OCD as well and they both like to taunt me at the same time, so i'm basically miserable. i was feeling much better last week and we went on a short vacation, but now i don't want to get out of bed and i want to cry all the time. i don't understand whats happening to me or why.
poster:Angela
thread:35669
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