Posted by Oren Kaufman on October 5, 2000, at 19:25:47
I wanted to post this because I really appreciate reading all the posts from people describing their experiences. Hopefully someone will appreciate what I have to say as well.
I've been taking 50mg zoloft for 2 weeks but it made it very hard for me to think properly. My job requires me to do a lot of design work and problem solving but I was completely unable to do this on zoloft. I had nausea and insomnia for the first few days, but those went away. My depression was causing a lack of interest in all activities that I used to enjoy and the zoloft almost seemed to mute my feelings even more. I was also having problems concentrating at work and again, the zoloft seemed to make it even worse. I suppose it is possible that the depression simply got worse and the zoloft was having no effect on me at all.
I had to leave work yesterday morning because I've become completely useless to the project I'm on. I was able to see my doctor this morning and he has switched me from zoloft to effexor xr (starting at 37.5mg and moving up to 75mg in 3 days). I've been reading posts on this forum about effexor and to be honest, I'm a little scared, but I'll give it a shot.
I struggled a lot with depression starting around 16 until I was 24. Since then (I'm 29 now), I've actually been really healthy, going through the normal ups and downs that most people go through. For the last 2 months though, my life has become blander and blander, as if my body is just a shell and the "me" that I've been for the last few years is simply gone. I wasn't too concerned until it started affecting my work. So... I hope the effexor will help out and that I don't face too many of the side effects that people have mentioned.
Thanks for letting me post. I will post more about how the effexor is working as things happen.
Oren
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