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Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:15 pm to Winkface
Unfortunately, I can't drink wine all day.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:15 pm to creolechef
My wife takes zoloft. Wouldn't be married if she didn't. Her problem is more extreme OCD. Her issues multipled after having kids. Stuff is a magic pill. I can tell within one day if she has forget to fill her meds. She says it makes her life much more enjoyable.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:15 pm to CoCo311
quote:can't or won't?
Unfortunately, I can't drink wine all day.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:16 pm to Fearthehat0307
Lol, can't.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:18 pm to Fearthehat0307
quote:
erectile dysfunction
Happens with a lot of SSRIs.
Especially in psychiatry different people respond to different meds differently. Just have to see what therapy gives the best results for each patient
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:33 pm to creolechef
It works. It'll take some time to start working and even then she might not even notice that it's doing it's thing. (she will be less anxious and happier probably)
Xanax works immediately....this is a more long-term thing.
Xanax works immediately....this is a more long-term thing.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:34 pm to Boats n Hose
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Happens with a lot of SSRIs.
My experience....and others as well...is it affects the labido until your body is used to the drug in the system.
After a few weeks it had no more affect in that department.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:39 pm to Jcorye1
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Consistency is a huge issue in my life, and always has been.
ISWYDT
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:40 pm to creolechef
I took it for about 3 months back about 07'.
I went from worrying about everything to absolutely not giving a shite. Went from one extreme to the other. It was crazy. Like if rent was coming due and I needed to hustle us the rest I was like frick it. GF was upset I was like frick it. Was late for work I was like frick it. I seriously have zero fricks about anything up to the point it was causing major problems in my life but I didn't give a frick.... I had to quit taking it.
I went from worrying about everything to absolutely not giving a shite. Went from one extreme to the other. It was crazy. Like if rent was coming due and I needed to hustle us the rest I was like frick it. GF was upset I was like frick it. Was late for work I was like frick it. I seriously have zero fricks about anything up to the point it was causing major problems in my life but I didn't give a frick.... I had to quit taking it.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:52 pm to DosManos
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So has your work suffered because you can no longer see the patterns?
It did for a while.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:55 pm to creolechef
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Looking for pro's and con's. Good stories and bad.
My wife was just given some by her doctor to help with anxiety. She told her to try it for 30 days and see if it helps or not
I was taking Lexapro, and then I got switched over to Pristiq which I am still taking at the lowest dosage and currently trying to taper off of it. Here is the BEST advice I can give you, and PLEASE listen to my advice, because as I have begun to try and taper off of this medication I have come across tons and tons of people writing about their own experiences on anti-depressants online (SSRI & SNRI).
Tell her to START slowly on the drug. DO NOT, and I repeat DO NOT go full on into taking this medication everyday unless without a doubt she NEEDS to. The reason I give you this advice is because the deeper she goes into taking the medication (higher dosage/everyday), the more difficult it will be for her to get off of the medication when shes ready to. Looking back when I first started any anti-depressant/anti-anxiety med, I would have started at the smallest dose every other day, and only at the lowest dosage possible. She may not need very much at all, and she may not need it for very long either. Take it very slow. Doctors are not always forthcoming on how difficult it is to stop taking these drugs once you're fully into taking them for a period of time.
Good luck to your wife, and hope her issues are resolved.
This post was edited on 3/18/15 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:56 pm to SuperSaint
For those who are on it now or have been in the past how long did it take you or your loved ones to notice a difference or any side effects?
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:57 pm to TigerPanzer
I used to work with a bunch of women. They joked that it should have been called nosexapro
Posted on 3/18/15 at 1:59 pm to creolechef
About a month.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 2:02 pm to spiderman
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Tell your wife to deal with anxiety like a normal grown up instead of swallowing pills. The number of people using RX meds these days to help them mentally cope with life is pathetic. If she can't be normal without taking mental pills it may be time to end that relationship.
Lexapro will make her like an emotionless zombie from what I've seen from people I know who took it.
In an ideal world it would be possible to deal with all mental health issues without any medicinal intervention, but I think you would have to really have a strong grasp of everyone's experiences to make such a blanket statement. Medication can be very powerful, and very helpful, but you have to educate yourself on the properties of each medication, and stop depending on doctors/psychiatrists all the time to just hand out meds without question. Most doctors/psychiatrist I have encountered have good intentions, but you still have to do your part on understanding the medication from other's perspectives, and how it effected them. When everyone is working together on that, then medication can play the role it was always originally intended to play.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 2:06 pm to creolechef
wife and I both take it. I have no more libido and neither does she. good luck.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 2:35 pm to tiggerthetooth
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The reason I give you this advice is because the deeper she goes into taking the medication (higher dosage/everyday), the more difficult it will be for her to get off of the medication when shes ready to. Looking back when I first started any anti-depressant/anti-anxiety med, I would have started at the smallest dose every other day, and only at the lowest dosage possible.
Sounds like you are in the withdrawal trap. Don't want or need the med, but can't function without it.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 2:45 pm to DosManos
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Sounds like you are in the withdrawal trap. Don't want or need the med, but can't function without it.
No, i'm not in the trap that I have seen described over and over and over in many support forums. I tried to quit cold turkey once upon a time, and after about a week of the very well known side-effects, I felt fine, but then 3 months later I started to feel tightness in my chest (and that was the only abnormal symptom), which signaled anxiety I guess. I was afraid it was a heart issue at first...which was really improbable considering my age/lifestyle. i had quit cold turkey off 100mg which wasn't the lowest dose, and then after 3 months i went back on the 50mg, and the tightness in my chest instantly went away. So I was fine taking it, and have taken it about 2 years since then, and just recently I've decided I want to start tapering off, and I'm only slowly doing it. I've successfully transitioned to every other day without any side-effects. I'll probably go with this for about 3 months, and then I'll go every 60 hours maybe. When I went off after 3 months and came back on it to a lower dose, I should have only taken the 50mg every other day immediately instead of going back to everyday, thus rebuilding the brains chemical processes expecting the drug. Its no big deal though, in time, Im confident Ill be off of it without any drastic side-effects, but only those that are common to anyone tapering off Pristiq. I dont have any substance abuse issues luckily, so that might be a large factor in why Im not going all over the place when coming off.
This post was edited on 3/18/15 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 3/18/15 at 2:48 pm to DosManos
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Don't want or need the med, but can't function without it.
I did successfully function without it temporarily, but I was uninformed about quitting cold turkey being a bad way to go about getting off the meds. I'm interested to see how i feel without it, because I think there are parts of my emotions that would be better experienced not under the influence of this medication. It did help a lot though, no doubt, just can't allow myself to take it forever.
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