Posted by Mitch on October 18, 2001, at 22:16:55
In reply to Re: Help! Should I try Zoloft for Anxiety?, posted by karenR on October 18, 2001, at 14:54:13
> I think you are going to have to just keep trying meds until you find the right one. I also have anxiety that
> I am trying to cope with. I actually find zoloft sedating, though. It didn't work for me. I also went through
> buspar, remeron and finally found happiness with serzone. Remeron was a great me for me in the beginning, but I
> found I needed to increase my dose every 3-4 weeks, and unfortunately, I gained quite
> a bit of weight quickly. I went off due to the weight gain and the fact that I couldn't remain at a
> constant state on remeron. Zoloft did nothing for my anxiety, but I was on it years ago for depression
> and it worked great. I found serzone to be my saviour, no side effects for me and I felt very "normal".
> It seems many people haven't have much success with serzone, but my experience was a good one. That's why I think
> you will just have to try meds until you find the right one for you. Give things a chance to work, most of them will
> take at least a month. If you are having terrible side effects that you can't live with, then you have to stop earlier.
> Good luck,
>
> karenRI second what Karen said about Serzone, I had forgot about that one. I tried it to help with the anxiety from taking Adderall. It *did* work-it seemed to work the best for anticipatory anxiety than any other antidepressant I had ever taken. Unfortunately, I developed a skin pruritis (itchies) from it and it got stopped because of that. Reduced agitation quite well-was quite impressed with that. I didn't get much of an AD effect with it, however.
Mitch
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