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Originally posted by ariesrising
That's not necessarily true...SSRIs really affected different people in different ways. I had a friend go off Paxil could turkey with no side effects. I went from 10mg to 5mg and after 3 days I was so sick with anxiety and the horrible withdrawal feelings that I had to increase the dosage and go down from 10 to 7.5mg.
All meds affect different people in different ways.
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I'm pretty sure it depends on the half-life of the drug . . . Prozac, for example, has a pretty long half-life so you're not going to be feeling much if you miss a day or two. Paxil and Effexor, which have much shorter half-lives, can hit you almost immediately if you miss even one dose. There are others that are somewhere in between.
And yeah, it depends on the person too. When I forget to take my meds, I basically just get really moody or maybe, at the worst, have a panic attack -- but I know other people on the same drug who have gotten so nauseous they threw up, got migraine-like headaches, or even "brain shocks."
