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Old Apr 07, 2016, 05:38 PM
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Has anyone experienced an increase in the urge to, & enjoyment of drinking alcohol on ADs, specifically SSRI/SNRIs? Or like me a significant reduction in drinking after stopping ADs?

Looking back retrospectively I can see the pattern of increased frequency of drinking, an increase in how much I could drink & how much I liked it & was driven to drink more after starting pristiq & then prozac (worse with pristiq.)

Lithium oddly seemed to reduce my ability to drink & enjoyment of it, perhaps because I became nauseated when I combined the 2, maybe levels raised with the dehydration associated with drinking? Or maybe it just irritated my stomach too much & alcohol was adding fuel to the fire. Regardless my original pdoc correlated it with hypomania. Anyone else experience this or could it be the ADs causing an elevation in mood which then increases my drinking?
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