Zoloft to Seroxat CR All Doctors And Experts Please Reply

[Aralanarshad]

I had anxiety which got treated with effexor xr. I was on effexor for two years normal. I went to my psych and said that I am normal taper of seroxat and I want to be medicine free. He suggested me not to do that. On my request again and again he tapered off effexor. Last month I was on 50mg effecor and suddenly started to get all the anxiety symptoms back. The doctor put me on Zoloft 50 mg 2 tab day and 2 tabs evening starting from one tab and tappering off effexor plan. I took zoloft fot about 1&1/2 month but I did not feel god, Now my doctor has changed me to seroxat cr 25mg. The details are as follow:

Date: 6th April 2015

Tab Zoloft 50mg
(7 Days) 2 tab day + 2 tab nigjht
1 tab day + 2 tab nigjht
1 tab day +1 tab nigjht
0+1 tab nigjht

Rivotril 0.5mg

0 + 2&1/2 tab nigjht

Tab Seroxat CR 25mg
(4 Days)0 + 1/2 tab nigjht
0 + 1 tab nigjht
0 + 1&1/2 tab nigjht
0 + 2 tab nigjht

After reducing zoloft from 2tabs evening and 1tab in the morning I have again started feeling anxiety from two to three days rest I became normal on the above plan. My doctor is daying to keep taking as advised. With 2tabs zoloft in the motning with 2tsbs in the evening I was feeling normal. Can any one explain is the anxiety due to tappering off zoloft? Is seroxat cr working? Is seroxat CR better? Will I get normal again on taking only seroxat 25mg two tabs at night and stopping zoloft by tappering.

[DYSLEXIC]

   you are right buddy . I have told you on many posts I have friends still on EFFEXOR and doing well the difference is they don't ever want to come off it , why should they it works to a degree they except , and not a weight belly buster to.  IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIts when you want to come off the trouble starts. me if it had worked for me I would still be on it , leave well alone I think . Has for PAXIL  it the only SSRI  I never wanted to try simply because massive weight gain , I mentioned tapper take a small mg of another SRRI if you don't react take a bigger mg and slightly reduce the PAXIL  if it works keep going very slow till you have fully tapered , any problems with the donor med ABORT IT .  seems simple to me, a small amount of a new SSRI med crossing the blood brain barrier ,while a little peace of Paxil leaves it,

[persephonedemeter]

Also, these men are not experts or doctors. They are sharing their experiences, arguments and opinions. They are your peers.

[persephonedemeter]

It would probably be more helpful to the person asking the question if you took your arguments with each other off to your message board. Whatever effexor did to one and whatever paxil did to the other is not a competition. As both of you said one time or another, people have their own experience with medication and react the way they do individually, and cannot be applied to ALL, just because you experienced it. Everyone goes through things in different degrees, different variables, etc. It looks like you are having some sort of rivalry going on in the forum. In other posts, quite entertaining, but here, starting to get a little out of hand.



Getting back to the poster, it would probably be best to discuss this with you doctor, because, honestly, no one can predict what is going to happen or what the combinations you are on are going to effect you or the taper you are going through. Even that, is an individual response. It isn't a simple question and it is not a simple answer. Even the experts and doctors will only be giving you a wide generalization that would be a guessing game on the forum. There is no crystal ball here. Don't know your history, your circumstance or how you present.

[Paxiled]

No, Paxil can't be tapered to another ssri anymore than Effexor can be tapered to another snri.  Same theory should apply, shouldn't it?  One of the reasons for this is that Paxil is just stronger than any other antidepressant in its affinity for both choline and serotonin receptors.  Paxil was the first drug to be exposed for lying about its withdrawal effects, and it's the reason there is a black box warning on all antidepressants now advising a slow taper off the drug, as required by the FDA.  Paxil has more walking wounded around than any other drug, although Effexor certainly is nearly as bad.  These two drugs are very prone to leaving people with what's called Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome, which is basically an indefinite withdrawal (benzos are quite bad at this as well, as proven by British researchers, which is why it's now much more difficult to get benzos in the UK than in the US).  Have you ever bothered to research this history?  My own personal experience with Paxil has left me knowing more about this drug than I ever wished I had to learn.  I wouldn't ban it or any other of these difficult meds, but I would warn people to only use them as a last resort.  

[DYSLEXIC]

Effexor is a lot worse than Paxil come on , if you have been on 300 Effexor for years it will take  for ever  to detox and every day will be BAD. that's why there are still people on 75 mg Effexor all there life they cannot shift the last 75mg without extreme with drawl that a lot would sooner not risk , I lost my hair to with drawl this med, it grew back , I joined a forum venlafaxine .org now defunked , it was set up to help people on Effexor but the only posts they got was how the hell do we get off it.i am still a friend with the owner of the dead site to this day. PAXIL is an ssri  so can be tapered to another , its the hardest to taper but its not that bad , get slowly on another SSRI  and taper a easier one SIMPLE.

[Aralanarshad]

Need more suggestions experts

[Paxiled]

Paxil is even harder to stop taking than Effexor.  These drugs should be saved for use only if everything else has failed -- just too strong and hard for the brain to adapt to normal again.

[DYSLEXIC]

Paxil is a SSRI like Zoloft  . Its good for anxiety but can increase weight bad