...they get better? when will my libido return dammit!? laughs I feel like shit, sleep from 6pm each night until noon each day, have brain zaps that have gotten worse (all the time now). It's frickin weird, like I'm spacing out. I have hot sweats, nausea, dizziness and extreme fatigue. I am doing this without my doctor's knowledge. I don't want to take this drug anymore. I took 25 mg/day for a week to start and then 50 mg/day for a month and then took 25 mg/day for just 3 days to wean off and just said: "the hell with it, I'm stopping now." Maybe I should have gone 4 more days to make it a week that I weaned off with 25 mg/day. It's been a week and a day since I took my last 25 mg tablet. I am okay right now since I am writing this. I have dreams EVERY night since taking the drug. I am watching myself. I had a traumatic head seizure 10 years ago so I know how to watch myself. The symptoms aren't too bad, they are all there as I listed them but maybe at a 5/10 to 6/10. Is this like the climax before things get better? Could I see improvement? Do the side effects last for 2 to 12 months as one forum poster said? Or years? What about libido, I wanted my sex life back! Most importantly.
Sounds dumb, I know. But let me be ignorant. I just wanted answers.
Wikipedia states:
"...it has been noted that the ejaculation-delaying effect of the medications may last for months after discontinuation in a percentage of the trial participants."
and:
". Emerging evidence suggests that such persistence in sexual disfunction may in fact be more common."
and:
"It appears as though the majority of people regain their sexual function after stopping SSRIs[citation needed], but some do not, and are faced with the persistent symptoms of post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD)."
Are these statements true? It's hard to believe that they are because I asked my doctor about something that wikipedia said about zoloft withdrawal and libido and she said it wasn't true -- that libido can be taken away permanently by taking zoloft.
wikipedia even says that gene expression can be altered so that sperm count, quality and testosterone levels are dropped significantly.
I'm screwed. I feel like suing Pfizer
WHY DO I HAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT THE ZOLOFT IN MY DRAWER IS NO DIFFERENT THAN COCAINE?
Sounds dumb, I know. But let me be ignorant. I just wanted answers.
Wikipedia states:
"...it has been noted that the ejaculation-delaying effect of the medications may last for months after discontinuation in a percentage of the trial participants."
and:
". Emerging evidence suggests that such persistence in sexual disfunction may in fact be more common."
and:
"It appears as though the majority of people regain their sexual function after stopping SSRIs[citation needed], but some do not, and are faced with the persistent symptoms of post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD)."
Are these statements true? It's hard to believe that they are because I asked my doctor about something that wikipedia said about zoloft withdrawal and libido and she said it wasn't true -- that libido can be taken away permanently by taking zoloft.
wikipedia even says that gene expression can be altered so that sperm count, quality and testosterone levels are dropped significantly.
I'm screwed. I feel like suing Pfizer
WHY DO I HAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT THE ZOLOFT IN MY DRAWER IS NO DIFFERENT THAN COCAINE?