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LCDuncan
LCDuncan

Sertaline for 20+ years.  Currently on 100 mg daily (have been for 10+ years).   Tried weaning off about 2 years ago without success.  

Plans:  100mg every other day for 2 months.  50 mg every other day for 2 months.  25 mg every other day for 2 months.  Then???????

Pros and Cons of my plans?

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  • paddy2801
    paddy2801 LCDuncan

    Posted

    I dont think you are considering the affects of coming off. Your plan looks designed for you to think that weaning off slowly and by the end you will be the same. But you wont , you have the mask that these drugs give you. Have you, in your plan, thought about how you are going to cope with that.

    I was on co codamol but not high levels only 4 a day and I just bit the bullet, had an awful two weeks, felt horrible, isolated, fever, loose bowels, no highs only extreme lows, I came through it and introduced setraline maybe I shouldnt but I feel the mask protection after two weeks but no sexual desire. 

    Sometimes I think anxiety and depression is felt by everyone and these drugs are not solutions they just better prepare you and cotton wool everything.

    Is it a silly question to ask why you want to quit?

     

    • LCDuncan
      LCDuncan paddy2801

      Posted

      Thanks for your reply paddy2801 and the thought provoking questions.  I no longer have the high stress job (been gone from there about 1-1/2 years) and my life is simplified tremendously based on the lifestyle I had for so many years.  There's really no reason to quit other than if I no longer need it (other than the dependency), I should stop taking it.   

  • Hoopz
    Hoopz LCDuncan

    Posted

    Have you tried googling sertraline tapering kits. Apparently these are properly measured decreasing doses. So there's no breaking tabs in half and the decrease is extremely gradual. It's worth a bit of investigating.

    Good luck whatever you decide to do. Keep posting and may the force be with you

    🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄

  • Hoopz
    Hoopz LCDuncan

    Posted

    Have you tried googling sertraline tapering kits. Apparently these are properly measured decreasing doses. So there's no breaking tabs in half and the decrease is extremely gradual. It's worth a bit of investigating.

    Good luck whatever you decide to do. Keep posting and may the force be with you

    🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄

    • LCDuncan
      LCDuncan Hoopz

      Posted

      Thank you!  I will definitely research prior to weaning off.  
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