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Misc SSRI with the least amount of withdrawal?

defective_lise

defective_lise

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I'm curious as to what you think the SSRI that has the least amount of withdrawal is. I've been on prozac, paxil, and celexa...paxil was bad, but celexa was definitely the worst. I felt queasy even through being stoned the entire time, and that was after a long taper. Augh. I don't remember prozac though...
 
No matter what you're on, the severity of w/ds largely depend on how long you're on it for and how high the doses climb, probably moreso than the relative w/d potentials of different SSRIs.

That aside, Prozac is purportedly the least likely SSRI to cause withdrawal symptoms due to having a very long half-life.
 
Effexor for me seemed pretty easy to be honest. Of course I was younger and naive, and most likely stoned most of the time like you :P . To be honest, I feel it had worse effects being on it (extreme moodswings) that I was so highly motivated to get off it ASAP. Best way is always with a slow taper and reduce of dose, glad I did. Now I just need to deal with this opiate problem :)
 
I wish I had an answer for this but I really don't. I've tried several SSRIs and even Tricyclics -- all of which put me through hell when I was withdrawing. Zoloft was absolutely horrible. Amitriptyline was pure HELL. It all depends in the individual, the dosage progression, the tapering process, and if you use anything to ease the come down.
 
Of the simple SSRI's (Zoloft, Luvox, Paxil, Prozac, Lexapro, and Celexa), Prozac is reported to be by far the easiest to come off of, and there is no reason I should doubt it because of its extraordinarily long half-life, and its active metabolite's even longer half-life allowing one to taper down slowly and without serious symptoms of SSRI discontinuation syndrome.
 
I took Prozac for five months at 40mg and stopped taking it since it wasn't helping. Doctor tapered me down pretty quickly and I felt NO WITHDRAWALS. The mofo then started me on Paxil.....BIG MISTAKE! I couldn't "nut" if I fucked for hours. Also fucked with my stomach too which were the biggest side effects. I was on 30mg for about three months. I tapered down to 5mg and for a few weeks I had uncontrollable sweats and major anxiety. I wound up relapsing on opiates for relief from Paxil withdrawals. Now I'm on Suboxone withdrawing from opiates. And to think I was prescribed antidepressants for my past opiate use.
 
i was on paroxetine (four months) and venlafaxine (a year). paroxetine had much worse side effects, and was one factor that lead to my alcoholism. on it the need to drink was constant. the withdrawal was unpleasant but bearable with a bit of alprazolam here and there. venlafaxine had much less side effects and didn't completely turn sex into a chore, but the withdrawal from the stuff was nasty. neither helped my depression or anxiety in any appreciable way. paroxetine sort of flattened my emotions, i wasn't quite as down as before, but it also lessened my ability to feel joy from anything, which was almost non-existant to begin with. venlafaxine did, um, kinda nothing, except making my insomnia worse.
 
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