Posted by sowhysosad on May 23, 2009, at 9:15:01
In reply to Re: Avoid serotonergics after bad SRI reaction? » newquestions, posted by SLS on May 22, 2009, at 9:58:50
> When I referenced the withdrawal syndrome, I meant to portray a way for kindling during withdrawal episodes to produce progressively intense and protracted discontinuation effects. If this is accurate, then it is imperative to follow a discontinuation protocol to minimize the occurrence of the withdrawal syndrome from the very first drug discontinuation.
Interesting idea Scott.
In my case I withdrew escitalopram rather too quickly. Although I had no major physical or psychological ill effects, I believe my receptors "over-shot the mark" and became supersensitive as you suggested earlier.
A couple of weeks later the doc gave me sertraline and perhaps raised the dose a little too quickly after a week. The result of this sudden serotonin overload was a pretty horrific bout of akathisia and then rebound depression.
Could it even have been a depression caused by excess serotonin? I've read that such a thing exists and it would explain why other serotonergics haven't helped at all and 5-HTP makes me worse.
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