Weaning of of Zoloft
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You obviously hate the drug companies, but, fact is, ya gotta have somebody to get those poppah blue moments happenin for ya babe.
of course, and cuz i take one drug, that actually has proven positive effects, doesn’t mean i got the hots for all them 120-200 month drugs companies that have no documented evidence of proven positive results, only proven negative side effect… i’d sure like a boyfriend ! but i don’t gotta like all boys ! xoxoxoxoxo Tanya
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Decompensate is a term that people in the medical profession use to imply what normal people call "falling apart" – becoming tearful, hysterical, panicky, etc.. I apologize, I should not use words in posts that are not part of everyday life for everybody. You obviously hate the drug companies, but, fact is, ya gotta have somebody to get those poppah blue moments happenin for ya babe. Yur it boy Gary
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Dear Sir who’s Sir????? This is not to be confused with benzo withdrawal, which can be fatal. yeah, and it could kill ya too. "knew what was happening and why", that he would have decompensated become physically imbalanced? Failure of the heart to maintain adequate blood circulation, marked by labored breathing, engorged blood vessels, and edema. i had ta look it up.. and what does bein a doctor and knowin what’s happnin have ta do with not doin that decompensation stuff…i mean… ya decompense.. or ya don’t… bein a doctor ain’t a vaccination against that decomposin stuff. my girlfriend that’s a stripper got decompensated when she did a lap dance backwards once. (she made up for it on the next to pole dances)… i’m thinkin i’m glad them poles are far away… can you imagine a draft makin it’s way thru a tiddy bar and yer sittin by the pole? tiddy bar tip: (from the voice of experience)… should ya ever decide ta eat at a bobby diner (specially in canada, they think tiddy dancers are staples in eateries).. do NOT order mayo on yer burger. i say don’t order NOTHIN ta eat at a tiddy bar… just take my word for it. i pierced in tiddy bars a lot on weekends, and well… just nevermind, just trust me. He is a master clinician at psychopharmacology and has studied with Stephen Stahl, oh goddddddddd…. he is soooooooo hot ! a crappy actor, but HOT HOT HOT ! I can only think of one SSRI (like Zoloft) that I have NOT tried, and that’s Luvox, because it’s not really compatible with Xanax, my drug of choice… how can an SSRI be compatible with xanax? that’s a dichotomy of medication reactionary translation… DRUG ABUSE, I TELL YA ! (i kinda like the name tho.. "Luvox"… "OHHHHHH, THIRSTON"… seriously, if i’m eatin a pill called Luvox… i ain’t gonna be alone, and i’m stockin up on twister boards and crisco.. fer real. Nothing against drug companies, they just want to make a buck, and without them, there would be no Xanax. ok.. please tell me you did NOT just say that… or i’m windexin tha twister board… without drug companies there’d be no xanax???? i guess without the golden arches we’d have no Burger King… without hospitals there would be no patients… without tar heroin, there would be no Mission District… without fruit…. there would be no flies….. without Janis… there would be no bobby mcGee (and shhhhh.. no Kris comments, i’m no a roll)… without plastic grocery bags, we’d have no pooper scoopers, without air.. we’d have no planes… ok, GARY THAT WAS DUMB TAKE IT BACK IMMEDIATELY ! "studies of adverse effects" they always seem to quote a figure around 11 to 25 percent, as the number of people who experienced ejaculatory difficulty, or similar stuff – yet EVERY single person I talk to will tell me that they had these problems when on such drugs. YEAH ! them OTHER people ya talked to <wink wink yeah! were you the exception to the rule, or you just shy, or you just not gotta girlfriend? or a hand puppet? i mean.. it’s just us… c’mon… you can say ! I think maybe the study subjects just didn’t wanna talk about that. ya THINK? but ya asked EVERY single person you could think of before that "light bulb moment", huh…. i woulda asked, cuz i always ask personal questions, cuz "none of your business" is a perfectly acceptable answer with me… it just takes up alotta time ta perform my own testing. Lexapro has the least amount of the sexual side effect thing OKOKOKOK ! all this sex talk is ruinin my visual of cawfee talk ! i’m shy ! ::coverin ears:: lalalalalalalla i… do…. not… wanna… visual…. of visual i have of that tiddy bar experience outta muh head. GOD hint: (the burger wasn’t paid for with bills or a credit card….. and mayo does not curdle.) but in the immortal words of Colin Quinn (Saturday Night Live), "that’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it" and in the immortally sane words of Andrew Dice Clay, YO, DICEMAN ! "whadda ya mean, cuddle? I’M DONE ! i love a sensitive man….. BALLS across da nose. what is wrong with me tanite? sumbody check me in Brice. ~~~~~spent all day bein homicidal and it’s progressed to pure crassness….. (tanya) .. i did that parenthetically cuz i’m scared of her tanite… nice drug chat, *IT* boy, (ya coulda left out the "stickin to it" part tho. i wonder if when yer bipolar and manic, does yer mind force ya ta think about other stuff ya normally wouldn’t, just anything, ta divert the hazardous thoughts…(maybe it’s a self-preservation mechanism)… i should look that up.
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What we’re hearing lately is that Lexapro has the least amount of the sexual side effect thing You haven’t been hearin that from me.
i SWEAR i was thinkin the same thing.. i bet ya $89.50… that Gary says "well hi! how are we today?" i always reply ta that one "WE were fine, til i reloaded after a bottle of mescal…. " BUT everyone is different that is so important to say!!!!! You don’t know until you try!
exactly ! ::passin out da peyote to da less fortunate… just so they can try … omg ! maybe that’s why i’m so obsessed with visuals.. that peyote ! i had visuals and trails like 3 weeks after i did that stuff ! oh hell ! i think i’ve been livin in a flashback for 28 years ! (and it wasn’t starrin kevin bacon) tell me ta shaddup, coITgurlllllllll…. or cram a gag in muh mouth.. i’m really irritatin me tanite. …. tanya.
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What we’re hearing lately is that Lexapro has the least amount of the sexual side effect thing (of the serotonin drugs).
snip You haven’t been hearin that from me. I’ve been saying over and over again that Lexapro is the worst A/D I’ve ever taken, the withdrawals are worse than any other SSRI, and I will never take it again. BUT everyone is different that is so important to say!!!!! You don’t know until you try!
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Dear Sir
who’s Sir????? This is not to be confused with benzo withdrawal, which can be fatal.
yeah, and it could kill ya too. "knew what was happening and why", that he would have decompensated
become physically imbalanced? Failure of the heart to maintain adequate blood circulation, marked by labored breathing, engorged blood vessels, and edema. i had ta look it up.. and what does bein a doctor and knowin what’s happnin have ta do with not doin that decompensation stuff…i mean… ya decompense.. or ya don’t… bein a doctor ain’t a vaccination against that decomposin stuff. my girlfriend that’s a stripper got decompensated when she did a lap dance backwards once. (she made up for it on the next to pole dances)… i’m thinkin i’m glad them poles are far away… can you imagine a draft makin it’s way thru a tiddy bar and yer sittin by the pole? tiddy bar tip: (from the voice of experience)… should ya ever decide ta eat at a bobby diner (specially in canada, they think tiddy dancers are staples in eateries).. do NOT order mayo on yer burger. i say don’t order NOTHIN ta eat at a tiddy bar… just take my word for it. i pierced in tiddy bars a lot on weekends, and well… just nevermind, just trust me. He is a master clinician at psychopharmacology and has studied with Stephen Stahl,
oh goddddddddd…. he is soooooooo hot ! a crappy actor, but HOT HOT HOT ! I can only think of one SSRI (like Zoloft) that I have NOT tried, and that’s Luvox, because it’s not really compatible with Xanax, my drug of choice…
how can an SSRI be compatible with xanax? that’s a dichotomy of medication reactionary translation… DRUG ABUSE, I TELL YA ! (i kinda like the name tho.. "Luvox"… "OHHHHHH, THIRSTON"… seriously, if i’m eatin a pill called Luvox… i ain’t gonna be alone, and i’m stockin up on twister boards and crisco.. fer real. Nothing against drug companies, they just want to make a buck, and without them, there would be no Xanax.
ok.. please tell me you did NOT just say that… or i’m windexin tha twister board… without drug companies there’d be no xanax???? i guess without the golden arches we’d have no Burger King… without hospitals there would be no patients… without tar heroin, there would be no Mission District… without fruit…. there would be no flies….. without Janis… there would be no bobby mcGee (and shhhhh.. no Kris comments, i’m no a roll)… without plastic grocery bags, we’d have no pooper scoopers, without air.. we’d have no planes… ok, GARY THAT WAS DUMB TAKE IT BACK IMMEDIATELY ! "studies of adverse effects" they always seem to quote a figure around 11 to 25 percent, as the number of people who experienced ejaculatory difficulty, or similar stuff – yet EVERY single person I talk to will tell me that they had these problems when on such drugs.
YEAH ! them OTHER people ya talked to <wink wink yeah! were you the exception to the rule, or you just shy, or you just not gotta girlfriend? or a hand puppet? i mean.. it’s just us… c’mon… you can say ! I think maybe the study subjects just didn’t wanna talk about that.
ya THINK? but ya asked EVERY single person you could think of before that "light bulb moment", huh…. i woulda asked, cuz i always ask personal questions, cuz "none of your business" is a perfectly acceptable answer with me… it just takes up alotta time ta perform my own testing. Lexapro has the least amount of the sexual side effect thing
OKOKOKOK ! all this sex talk is ruinin my visual of cawfee talk ! i’m shy ! ::coverin ears:: lalalalalalalla i… do…. not… wanna… visual…. of visual i have of that tiddy bar experience outta muh head. GOD hint: (the burger wasn’t paid for with bills or a credit card….. and mayo does not curdle.) but in the immortal words of Colin Quinn (Saturday Night Live), "that’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it"
and in the immortally sane words of Andrew Dice Clay, YO, DICEMAN ! "whadda ya mean, cuddle? I’M DONE ! i love a sensitive man….. BALLS across da nose. what is wrong with me tanite? sumbody check me in Brice. ~~~~~spent all day bein homicidal and it’s progressed to pure crassness….. (tanya) .. i did that parenthetically cuz i’m scared of her tanite… nice drug chat, *IT* boy, (ya coulda left out the "stickin to it" part tho. i wonder if when yer bipolar and manic, does yer mind force ya ta think about other stuff ya normally wouldn’t, just anything, ta divert the hazardous thoughts…(maybe it’s a self-preservation mechanism)… i should look that up.
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does that mean I’m "less" prone to nasty withdrawl symptoms that I’v heard about?
i never heard of havin side effects when comin off zoloft or those kinda drugs. i was on zoloft for a few years, and those sexual side-effects seem quite common.. i hated that, too… i don’t think i coulda had sex even after a box’o'wine, 17 "roofies" and a jenna jamison flick. the only side effect i had coming off of zoloft was i had way more money ta buy beer. good luck gettin pregnant ! but be sure and go on Maury and get blood tests.. (ya gotta make sure it’s hers) BADDA BING ! xoxoxox ~tanya 
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Dear Sir: Zoloft is one of the serotonin drugs that has a reputation for making people uncomfortable when coming off it. This is not to be confused with benzo withdrawal, which can be fatal. My own doctor takes Zoloft, and stopped it, and told me that if he had not been a physician and "knew what was happening and why", that he would have decompensated. When I asked him what happened – what was the result of his effort to stop the drug, he replied "I’m taking Zoloft every day again." Out of sheer curiosity (and lack of anything better to talk about with a therapist/psychiatrist of 13 years) I posed your question to my shrink. He is a master clinician at psychopharmacology and has studied with Stephen Stahl, the current national guru on psych pharmaco stuff. His opinion was precisely the same as your doctor’s – you can do the flip-flopping thing, all that really does is drop the serum level a little more slowly, but there comes a point, where you just have to drop down to the next increment. I can only think of one SSRI (like Zoloft) that I have NOT tried, and that’s Luvox, because it’s not really compatible with Xanax, my drug of choice… They all had varying degrees of unpleasantness in stopping them, but I didn’t find any of that to be debilitating, more just annoying. Never was I unable to go to work, for example, because of SSRI discontinuation symptoms. By far, the worst one for me was Prozac, and Paxil was a close second. The SSRI discontinuation symptoms are thought by some to be worse based on the half-life of the drug, however Prozac has the LONGEST half-life of any of them, and Paxil has the SHORTEST half-life of any of them, so my experience did not show that to ME. This is a good example of how clinical results are not necessarily reflective of what texts say, or what drug companies spew… Nothing against drug companies, they just want to make a buck, and without them, there would be no Xanax. If you don’t get nasty withdrawal symptoms, you can absolutely stop the Zoloft right now – there is no dangerous scenario in doing that. If you end up having awful discontinuation reactions, you can always restart the drug, and taper down. It is commonly thought that a drug has basically "washed out" after 10 times it’s half-life has elapsed. For Zoloft, the half-life is about 24 hours. What I find very interesting about all of these serotonin reuptake inhibition drugs, is that in the "studies of adverse effects" they always seem to quote a figure around 11 to 25 percent, as the number of people who experienced ejaculatory difficulty, or similar stuff – yet EVERY single person I talk to will tell me that they had these problems when on such drugs. I think maybe the study subjects just didn’t wanna talk about that. What we’re hearing lately is that Lexapro has the least amount of the sexual side effect thing (of the serotonin drugs). Get some Xanax, if you have panic problems you can always take one, and get rid of Zoloft, it’s a crappy drug – I personally hated it, and hated everyone and everything for the entire week I managed to stay on it. That is just my personal opinion – but in the immortal words of Colin Quinn (Saturday Night Live), "that’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it". Kindest Regards, Gary
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello, I have been taking Zoloft for about 5 years now. I have been taking it for panic disorder. It started at 100 mg a day at first and have been down to 50 mgs a day for the past 2 years. I decided it time to wean off of it because my wife and I are planning a family but its a little hard when you have no sex drive(only side-affect), I have read that the best way to wean is to do a "flip-flop" dose, like 50mg one day 25mg the next the back to 50mg and 25mg the next and so on for a couple of weeks. Has any body heard of this? Would you recommend it? My Dr just said take 25mg for a few months the 12.5mg after. I have had surprisingly no side affects except for the one I mention above, does that mean I’m "less" prone to nasty withdrawl symptoms that I’v heard about? It sounds pretty scary for what I read. I have gotton those zaps in my head whan i missed a dose. Thanks to all whom reply. A
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Hello, I have been taking Zoloft for about 5 years now. I have been taking it for panic disorder. It started at 100 mg a day at first and have been down to 50 mgs a day for the past 2 years. I decided it time to wean off of it because my wife and I are planning a family but its a little hard when you have no sex drive(only side-affect), I have read that the best way to wean is to do a "flip-flop" dose, like 50mg one day 25mg the next the back to 50mg and 25mg the next and so on for a couple of weeks. Has any body heard of this? Would you recommend it? My Dr just said take 25mg for a few months the 12.5mg after. I have had surprisingly no side affects except for the one I mention above, does that mean I’m "less" prone to nasty withdrawl symptoms that I’v heard about? It sounds pretty scary for what I read. I have gotton those zaps in my head whan i missed a dose. Thanks to all whom reply. A
