Posted by Dale on June 22, 2001, at 15:21:56
Hello,
I am new to this list and I am going through some tough
times right now. I have been on 100 mg of zoloft for about 2 1/2 years
and 4 months ago the doctor decided to take me down to 75, then to 50.
I became depressed after going down to 50, so he told me to
go back up to 75 and maybe that would be my dose. Well, after
a little while I started developing tics where I would jerk
my neck, tense my stomach, and jerk my legs too. After a bout of
anxiety (induced, i feel, from caffeine) I went to see him about a month ago
and he told me this:To go back down to 50mg on zoloft, and he will start switching me over to
Paxil. So, while going off zoloft he started the Paxil. I went down to 50mg, but
waited a week and then started the 10mg of Paxil, which I started this past monday (
so I have been on the paxil for almost 5 days now) while being on 50 mg of
zoloft. Next Monday I am suppsed to go down to 25mg zoloft and
go up 20mg on Paxil.The doctor prescribing this is my general family doctor.
Last night I got myself all scared by doing a bit of research. I found
the book Prozac Backlash , by Joseph Glenmullen, M.D. (Harvard MEdical School),
and started reading it. Wow - it sounded like me. He talked about people being on
SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil) and how the medicine masks tics until you start going off of them,
which I was doing. He also said that the neurological disorders such as
facial and whole-body tics can indicate brain damage! He also talked about tardive dyskinesia (tics), and parkinson-like
movements. This really scared me and just finding this out while going off zoloft and onto paxil
makes me wonder if I should forget the paxil and just continue to go off the zoloft.Any suggestions? I feel like my life is falling before me! My mind is not like it used to be -
I feel dumber, do not conentrate as well, lost interest in my normal activities, feel "out of it," no energy either!
Ahhhh. It would REALLY help me to get some responses from some of you. Hope to hear from you soon.Yours,
Dale
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thread:67499
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