in need of some advice...please
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Hi all it's me again and I'm sorry for posting so much so often....Also sorry for this long post
Lately I have been feeling good as far as mood and anxiety goes...but I haven't really felt like myself.
Last night I became cranky and pretty anxious. Not anxious enough to send me into panic, but anxious enough to feel on edge. I woke up today with some random thoughts floating in my head.
Sometimes I almost feel like I am trying to fix something that was never broken in the first place. Like, was my anxiety really that bad? I often wonder what would have happened if I wouldn't have gotten on medication..if things would have gotten better after the little anxiety spurt that I had to begin with. I've always had social anxiety since I can remember, so maybe I did need something..
It's like I'm butting heads with myself. A part of me is saying to just wait it out even longer and see how I feel. Another part of me is saying that I should start the process of tapering off and go back to being medication free. I get somewhat relief of thinking of not taking medication, but I'm so scared that taking this has ruined my brain's chemistry being I am 21 years old and if I do decide to come off, I'll be all messed up for the rest of my life 😦....but what if I start to feel myself again after?
It sucks, to say the least, that I felt so amazing the first 3 months or so on Zoloft, and after increasing I haven't been able to feel that again. I miss myself and don't know what to do
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lois95799 mariah69970
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why did u increase if you felt amazing makes no sense?
mariah69970 lois95799
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i felt great, then had major breakthrough anxiety that i could not shake and had to increase my dose.
terri12857 mariah69970
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Hi there, you can just ask your doctor to start to decrease your dose of zoloft if you really want to start tapper off the medication altogether if you want to be medication free. What dose are you currently taking for zoloft each day if you don't mind me asking you? 🤔 I take 50mg of zoloft each night and I did have it increased to 75mg but it made my anxiety worse so I decreased it back to 50mg each night and I might decrease it back down to 25mg each night in the next two weeks or so. Talk to your doctor about tapering your dose down slowly depending on what your current dose is right now. Remember that you can't just stop taking these kinds of medications you have to slowly tapper off of them with the guidance of your doctor or your pharmacist. Most of the time your pharmacist knows a lot more about how to do this then most doctors do so don't be afraid to seek out the help of your pharmacist if you have a good relationship with them. My pharmacist is amazing I'm always calling her with questions about my medications because every time I try to call my psychiatrist office the secretary never answeres the phone and my next appointment with her is not until February and I just seen her yesterday morning and she is Startin me on a new medication for my severe insomnia so I'll be trying it out tomorrow night because the pharmacy had to order it in for me and it won't be available until tomorrow night.
lois95799 terri12857
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may i ask what is the name of your new medication for insomnia?
mariah69970 terri12857
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I started on 50 for about 10 weeks, then had a really horrific week and my doctor decided to increase to 75 and so I've been on the new dose for 13 weeks now, 23 weeks total. I'm just patiently waiting to feel awesome again, I just don't know what to do. I don't know if it's the medication making me feel this way or if it's my anxiety, or if the medication is making my anxiety worse or what! I might wait it out taking it a couple more weeks before deciding if I want to come off medication entirely.