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29 Dec 2007, 3:51 pm

Can anyone help with with this concern I have.
I have heard that when you come off anti-depressants, if you restart again they dont have the same effect as before.

Does anyone have any experience of this?

I have been tapering off my citalopram for the last 6 weeks and I am down to just a couple of mgs (2mg) I feel ok, been through I lot of withdrawal, but ok, however I have this anxiety because I heard it said by Temple Grandin, that sometimes if you stop only to take the same product again, you do not get at all the same effect.

I would value your help here


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29 Dec 2007, 4:29 pm

ok, Criss this is the wrong forum for this question to be in. Try it else where you'll get more responses.

Move it and I'll reply.


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29 Dec 2007, 7:33 pm

Paleo is right - post in general or random and see what ya get, i heard that too by TG but you may be able to switch to a different med.


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29 Dec 2007, 9:06 pm

I moved this to General, as it seems more likely to get a response there, being a fairly typical comorbidity.

(I took Prozac for a while - had no effect when I was on it or when I came off, so I'm no help. :) )


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29 Dec 2007, 9:21 pm

criss wrote:
Can anyone help with with this concern I have.
I have heard that when you come off anti-depressants, if you restart again they dont have the same effect as before.
Does anyone have any experience of this?


Totally depends on the drug and unfortunately most pharm companies don't do studies on withdrawal and going and off medication so even doctors don't know sometimes. Given the amount of anti-depressants that are coming out now, if you ever need to get back on one there will probably be a better one anyway.

I found a harm reduction guide to coming off Psychiatric drugs at:
http://theicarusproject.net/alternative ... tric-drugs
but I don't think they talk about going back on the drug again since it's kind of anti-psychiatry.



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30 Dec 2007, 12:39 am

Yeah pretty much what mcsquared said.

I recall one evening in the haven trying to frantically find withdrawal info for someone. It wasn't fun and it ended up being guess work. Typically for me, they've coasted me in with another. I guess the general school of thought and the conclusion we came to before, and mind you this might not be real sound advice, do it in the smallest possible cut backs. If a doctor is still in this equation, I'd be checking for their thoughts on it, to be sure. Some of this stuff is nasty.

I've had really bad luck trying to recapture something that was working before. I've never been able to do it actually. For a long time I was easily persuaded to try combos of things and to change dose's. But mind you we were going for something that wasn't AS. I don't do that anymore, I run the show, I tell them whats up, they just advise. While that may appear to be pretty egotistical on my part I give you this for consideration. It isn't easy for me to convey what is going on inside, but I know what it is. Where I go, Doctors are ify if I have one at all and after I don't remember how many different ones, someone had to oversee it, because they sure weren't. Also and this might have something to do with the AS side, I seem to be very sensitive to meds, in other words, recommended doses sometimes are just plain wrong with me, I don't need as much as they think and can even go below what is considered to be the least effective dose. Finally this one is listening to me about this.


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30 Dec 2007, 3:47 am

thank you everyone for this help, i appreciate it.


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