Posted by phidippus on October 21, 2012, at 0:19:21
In reply to Starting and restarting SSRI, posted by mike1975a on October 20, 2012, at 18:41:24
Starting and stopping SSRIs is not practical. Once you've been on an SSRI for a couple months, the changes in your neurochemistry become somewhat semi-permanent and it takes a couple of weeks to stop the medication and wash it out of your system. Stopping the medication for a few days and restarting it continuously may render the medication useless-it never gets a chance to build up in your system like it should. This may have left you vulnerable to depression, even psychotic depression.
Next time, choose a different antidepressant, one without sexual side effects, such as Viibryd, Mirtazapine or Luvox. You could even take Wellbutrin alongside an SSRI to alleviate the sexual side effects.
Eric
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