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Originally Posted by Mogeii
Thanks for the reply. Ya I'm on 150mg Zoloft which is Max for me. I was on 200 for 2 weeks and my psych dropped it back when I told him I was having really intense blurry vision and had lost my appetite that I lost 10lbs in 2 weeks. I'm 5"10 and 150lbs so that decrease in weight wasn't really a positive thing. I think if I can get in touch with him before Thursday when I have my appointment I'll ask about a med switch. Zoloft was a good friend for me but the rapid cycling and now crash back into major anxiety and moderate depression seems to be saying it may have run it's course for now. You know it's weird that me and multiple friends I have that have dealt or are dealing with psych meds, we have all been on just about everything collectively but never celexa or cymbalta. Something about lexapro and Wellbutrin seems to interest me due to things I've heard while Prozac and Effexor are considered nightmare drugs in my circle of friends. But hey everyone is different, here's hopin my psych has a good idea for me and it works out
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You may want to try Trazodone along with the 150mg of Zoloft. I've been on the 75mg of Trazodone with 100mg of Zoloft for the past year and it works great for me. Trazodone is another antidepressant but it's used mostly as a sleep aid. It gives my Zoloft an extra needed boost so that way the Zoloft doesn't bottom out like the Celexa did every month. I see a PA-C for my depression and she's aware that medicine wise I'm quite sensitive so when I went through Paxil and Paxil CR and Celexa and the Celexa/Trazodone combo and none of that worked for more than a month or so at a time she decided to put me on 50mg of Zoloft instead of putting me on a lower dose of the medication. She had me try 20mg of Celexa and by week 4 she had to increase it to 4. A year later I was at 60mg along with 50mg of Trazodone. And that still wasn't enough. Even with counseling it wasn't enough. That's when we decided to try the 50mg of Zoloft. I guess my doctor figured it wasn't worth starting me on a low dose because of my prior history of needing antidepressants increased month after month when starting them on a low dose.