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25mg zoloft today. considering once i was at 200mg, i imagine a little toe or maybe part of a kidney is starting to feel happy. up to 100mg after a month, which will do little, so i'll probably continue to be my not all that peppy self for some time. silly doctors. they should just advise me then fill out the prescription i prescribe. but then i might have to do exercise and suchlike, so maybe it's better that they're in charge.

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Has your doctor thought about augmenting the Zoloft with small doses of T4 [thyroxine]?

Sometimes, this works - especially if your thyroid levels are a bit off. Have you had them checked lately?

I know - the nurse with the questions again ;)

to be checked in the soon

*says hello to happy little toe*

from 200mg to 25mg. That's a progress i would say. That should make your entire legg happy instead of just your little toe.

went from 200 to 150 because i thought there were side effects, then from 150 to 0 because my doctor retired, then to other drugs which didn't work so well, so it's really going from 0 to 25 rather than from 200 to 25.

25mg is not bad considering you've been at 200mg.

0 is better. But not from one day at another. It's better to decrease slowly.

still.. 25 isn't too bad. That is IF you're feeling better now.

am not feeling better. don't expect to be until it gets toward 150mg, or until i move and all problems in the world magically fix themselves.

Does your doc plan to increase mg's soon? Or must you stay at 25 and feel miserable?

Move? You can do. But whereto? Never-never-land?

all problems in the world magically fix They only do that in Never-never-land.

stick to the mg's.

1 week 25mg
1 week 50mg
2 week 100mg
talk to doc again
probably up to 200mg after

blah*

I ate 25mg of Z a day for about 2 years, which cracked the unfaltering gloom and kept me in one piece for a bit. Then I decided I needed my emotions to be unfiltered if I was going to hack out the root of the rot inside.

Most days, I think I did the right thing. Some days I wish I was still safely wrapped in medicine, wish that even one little toe was happy.

depression is a filter to, imo. i view smaller amounts of antidepressants as getting rid of the chemical deficiency so i can work on things without the depression controlling my mental patterns. i avoided antidepressants for years for fear of becoming a happyzombie, but it didn't feel like that once i tried some.

it can be useful for me at times to experience the full depression. but it was also very useful to experience happiness for the first time in a decade when i first started taking zoloft - proved it was possible, rescued my work life because i could think and concentrate again and i wasn't just dumb, built confidence, etc.

if hacking at rot gets too overwhelming, consider zolofting again at more than 25mg to give your neurochemistry a happybreak, and build up strength for more hacking.

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