Posted by Janelle on June 24, 2001, at 21:19:36
In reply to Re: Do the SSRI's PERMANANTLY alter your brain?, posted by Dale on June 24, 2001, at 18:36:31
Dale,
Thanks for responding, it's always a "relief" to find that I'm NOT the ONLY one wondering about something, and this particular thing is really starting to scare me too!
I was on Paxil (it worked GREAT for what's that's worth) for SEVEN years (eeeeeeek!), am now trying Effexor (after Celexa did NOTHING), and just recently started reading in more than one source about SSRI's making one's brain "think" it has more serotonin and/or norepinephrine than it really does, so the brain "stops" firing it off and goes into depletion. I'm scared that if I am able to go off meds (which would be my goal), my brain will no longer make Serotonin or Norepinephrine on its own, and I'll be "forced" to remain on med(s) forever.
I'm relieved that you said that doctors have told you that the SSRIs just alter things and when you go off the medication everything will be normal. After reading what I did, I'm now wondering too.
To answer your question - no (knock on wood), I've never had any any types of tics or other muscle things going on, like tardive dyskinesia, but saw it happen to someone, but from one of the "older" meds. Also, I was on an older med which had tardive dyskinesia as a possible side effect, which thankfully I never got, but also got off that stuff in reasonable time.
Doctors told me that if a person does get those muscle symptoms and tardive dyskinesia, that it is TEMPORARY and goes away when you stop the medication - and it DID go away when the person I know stopped taking the med that had caused it.
Hope this helps.
poster:Janelle
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