Zoloft is heaven/hell for anxiety and dp.

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Sharon22

Discussion Starter · Jan 20, 2018

Had to up my Zoloft dosage last night as I was suffering bad panic attacks all night due to lack of sleep and could not sleep because of the panic attacks. I took an extra 10mg of Zoloft and it helped but my dp has gone bad again and I was showing improvement the last few days. I hate this, Zoloft pretty much cures my anxiety attacks/panic attacks but it makes my dp/dr 10 billion times worst, but if I come off the medication my panic attacks get so bad then that brings on the dp. It's a constant loose loose situation as my dp is anxiety induced. I came off Zoloft for good a few weeks ago and the anxiety was that bad I ended up having a panic attack and collapsed twice, as you can imagine the next day I had full blown dp and felt high as fuck all day. Heading to bed now and debating what to do, do I keep to the upped side an not have the anxiety or do I stay on 25mg and have anxiety. I wish this dp would just go away!!!! It's such a soul destroying fucking illness. Sorry for the language just fed up of getting 10 steps better then 20 steps worst, it's like a daily battle.

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Bree123

· #8 · Jan 21, 2018

Oh man sorry to hear. I'm just on 50mg of Zoloft. It definitely helps the anxiety. dpdr for me was brought on by a marijuana-induced panic attack, and after that incident I had such awful anxiety which probably maintained the dpdr. Anyways yeah my anxiety is so much better, and I feel like that has helped dpdr, but dpdr is still there. I've been on Zoloft a while now and I sometimes worry about getting off it and feeling anxiety and bad dpdr again. So I feel your pain. Unfortunately there's no magic pill (I wish there was!).

Also yeah definitely tried tons of natural remedies and nothing helped, so that's why I have to take meds. It sucks, but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do!

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Bree123

· #13 · Jan 24, 2018

Hartigan said:
Also: What many don't understand is that SSRI's won't help you if:

1. Your Serotonin is low.

2. Your GABA is the problem.

3. Your Dopamine is the problem.

4. Your Thyroid is the problem.

5. Your Norepinephrine is the problem.

This is why you should check all these things before you start with SSRI's.

Great point, there are a lot of things that can cause dpdr, anxiety, depression, etc. I had a lot of tests done to make sure everything was functioning properly, and then when it was determined that nothing else was wrong with me, I decided to take meds. Always make sure you are healthy otherwise before taking meds, since maybe your issues are caused by some other imbalance in your body!

But to my knowledge there isn't a medical test (or at least not a widely available test) to test levels of neurotransmitters? That would be amazing if you could test that! And SSRIs are made to increase levels of serotonin in the brain (by blocking reabsorption and allowing more serotonin to be absorbed by the next neuron and all that fun science stuff), so theoretically if you had low serotonin SSRIs would help that (but I mean they don't totally know how SSRIs work and there are lots of side effects). There are other types of meds that supposedly help with levels of dopamine and norepinephrine. But again pretty much anything like that that relates to the brain and elements of the brain/nervous system isn't completely understood, so who knows! Not trying to pick a fight or anything, just clearing that up!

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