elizzza811
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My family doctor prescribed Zoloft for me several months ago due to depression, agitation/moodiness, severe anxiety, and already severe and worsening OCD. We started at 50mg (along with 0.5mg clonazepam twice daily) and VERY slowly increased the Zoloft to 125mg.
I felt great at 50mg and even better with each increase...the greatest I'd felt in a decade!...(though my R hand would shake and twist frequently in the mornings, sometimes wildly - I could live with that though!). But once he raised the dose to 75mg, I began wetting the bed. 100mg - still wetting the bed. 125 - diarrhea in bed, so I dropped back to 100mg. (Wetting the bed? I could live with that too! That's what they make Depends for, right?)
I just saw my neurologist and she believes these are seizures due to a lowering of my seizure threshold caused by the Zoloft. So she dropped my dose of Zoloft all the way down to 50mg (she halved my dose) and increased my bedtime dose of Lamictal to 200mg. (I had been taking 150mg twice a day for independent generalized epilepsy with simple & complex partial seizures/focal epilepsy.) My family doctor doubled my dose of clonazepam to 1mg twice a day hoping that would help my anxiety, mood, etc... since the neurologist left me wanting for that higher dose of Zoloft.
And guess what? I'm now wetting the bed even at 50mg of Zoloft, even with all these changes. So now I'm down to 25mg of Zoloft, taking 1mg clonazepam twice a day, and feeling miserable again. I believe the increase in Lamictal has caused severe constipation too, a double whammy.
I'm about ready to just surrender my driver's license, sleep peacefully, seizing and wetting the bed at night, just to feel cheerful and less anxious again.
There are no psychiatrists in my area taking new patients...sooo many psychiatric meds lower the seizure threshold - I'm thinking it would make more sense for a neurologist to treat my depression, etc... but they won't.
Thoughts?
I felt great at 50mg and even better with each increase...the greatest I'd felt in a decade!...(though my R hand would shake and twist frequently in the mornings, sometimes wildly - I could live with that though!). But once he raised the dose to 75mg, I began wetting the bed. 100mg - still wetting the bed. 125 - diarrhea in bed, so I dropped back to 100mg. (Wetting the bed? I could live with that too! That's what they make Depends for, right?)
I just saw my neurologist and she believes these are seizures due to a lowering of my seizure threshold caused by the Zoloft. So she dropped my dose of Zoloft all the way down to 50mg (she halved my dose) and increased my bedtime dose of Lamictal to 200mg. (I had been taking 150mg twice a day for independent generalized epilepsy with simple & complex partial seizures/focal epilepsy.) My family doctor doubled my dose of clonazepam to 1mg twice a day hoping that would help my anxiety, mood, etc... since the neurologist left me wanting for that higher dose of Zoloft.
And guess what? I'm now wetting the bed even at 50mg of Zoloft, even with all these changes. So now I'm down to 25mg of Zoloft, taking 1mg clonazepam twice a day, and feeling miserable again. I believe the increase in Lamictal has caused severe constipation too, a double whammy.
I'm about ready to just surrender my driver's license, sleep peacefully, seizing and wetting the bed at night, just to feel cheerful and less anxious again.
There are no psychiatrists in my area taking new patients...sooo many psychiatric meds lower the seizure threshold - I'm thinking it would make more sense for a neurologist to treat my depression, etc... but they won't.
Thoughts?