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Switching anti depressants

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victoria68136
victoria68136

hi guys

not been on here for a while but could do with some reasurrance

i have been on sertraline for 9 months starting low then up to 100

felt worse so tapered down to 50 mg

still unbalanced

saw a psycharist couple days ago

she said to go back on my old ones citrapram which worked brill for yrs but last year anxiety came back so was switched to sert

but as we speak i picked up citrapram today

10mg for few days then up to 20

was wanting to find out if anyone on here has done a direct switch

from 50mg sert to 10mg citrapram

any advice would be apprieated x

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  • brianthesnail
    brianthesnail victoria68136

    Posted

    Hi victoria

    each ssri has a equivilent dosage to each other .... for example 100mg sertaline is equivilent to 40mg of citrapram .... so its important you dont exceed that dose

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    a direct switch shouldnt be a problem but remember allthough ssri,s belong to the same family of medication each have very slight chemical make up ..... so you will get different side effects and results from each one

    i would take the 20mg first and see how that goes and then ( with your doctors permission ) increase to 40mg after 2 weeks ..

    hope this helps and best wishes

    • victoria68136
      victoria68136 brianthesnail

      Posted

      thank you so much

      for explaning

      dr told me to start on 10mg which I started today

      last sertraline was yest 7am

      50mg

      i have diaz too thank god

      its just scary goung from one to the other

      are u on anything ?

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