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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
It does happen to you. Stick to Your Schedule Certain antidepressants, such as Effexor (venlafaxine), leave your system quickly and therefore are more likely to cause withdrawal symptoms. This can happen even when you're simply a little late taking your regular dose.If you happen to forget your antidepressant, it's okay to take it as soon as you realize you missed it. The exception is if it's close to your next scheduled dose; in that case, wait until then and get back on track. Consider a Switch Let's say you're taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), but it isn't working very well for you, or it's causing side effects that you can't live with. Rather than stopping it cold turkey and potentially causing discontinuation syndrome, talk to your doctor about switching to another medication, especially if you haven't been on it for long. Prozac (fluoxetine), for example, has a very long half-life, meaning that after you stop taking it, it leaves your body more slowly than most other SSRIs. For this reason, you're unlikely to have extreme withdrawal symptoms with Prozac. Keep this in mind when you and your doctor are discussing which antidepressant you should try or if you're considering switching to another one.You should be able to go directly from your current medication to another SSRI without triggering discontinuation syndrome, meaning that you won't need to wean yourself from the first drug before starting the second. The same is true if you're switching from an SSRI to a selective serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), such as Effexor (venlafaxine). In fact, you should be able to easily go straight from Prozac (fluoxetine) to any other antidepressant except for one in the class of monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs). These medications have more safety concerns and potentially have more side effects than
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