The side effects of coming off anti-depressants

of what i learn the side effects of the meds or antidepressants are.....cant sleep or lack of sleep or can cause insomnia, lack of appetite, loss weight thats the common side effects...

I use to take Paxil.I got really lucky as it worked great for me.I felt a lot better withing a couple of days of taking it.My doctor recommened me taking it for 6 months but due to several reasons I came off of it after 3 months. I was not 100% better,but that is the only side effect I experienced when I quit taking it

first off you should talk to your doc before taking yourself off of them....secondly DO NOT go off them cold turkey..definatley ween yourself off of them...As for side effects, well that varies from person to person and since I've never weened myself (though i have just stopped taking them cold turkey and its a bad scene every time and each time was worse) I really can't say what side effects you may have other than your depression coming back if you've not dealt with the base cause of it..

my partner was on antidepressants for quite a long time, only decided to get off them this yr. go to the doctor and get weened off them, as said in other posts. things could go wrong and you end with a situation. i know when my partner took his late he'd end up with a motion sickness feeling. the doctor just dropped the dosage, in half and you took the tablets like normal, for son long then did the same thing with another lot. it took about a month to do. but's it all done now, but i'd have to say he's better behaved now than he was when he was on the medication. i believed he was on the wrong one, he followed what his brother used.
best of luck, and you know where to find us if you want to talk.

I suggest you consult your doctor before you start weaning yourself off medication. My mom tried it a few years ago on her own and the reaction (not only the physical reaction, but the mental reaction) was adverse.

Later on higher dosages of anti-depressants and additional medicines were recommended and administered, and she was finally weaned off the drugs under medical supervision. She passed on this January of a heart ailment after spending about six years of a normal happy life without any anti-depressants.

is a chemical change in your body so it will probably be similar to what it was likely when you were put on the medication.

weight/appetite changes
tiredness/lethargy
headaches
drymouth

these are all common side effects

what yu should really do is talk to the doctor who prescribed your meds cause it really depends on the type you were on, they are all a little bit different. yur doctor is the one to ask, they're the specialist.

I have to agree with most of the other posts and do not stop taking your medicine cold turkey. Also, it would be a good idea to discuss it with your prescribing Dr. so they can tell you how to ween of the medication. Some people experience headaches and trouble sleeping...etc but I think the worst thing is that your symptoms that caused you to go on the medication in the first place can come back but even stronger. Some people even become suicidal just because of stopping their medication improperly...even though they weren't suicidal to begin with. Just be careful about stopping any medication without talking to your DR. first.

I started taking antidepressants 5 years ago, and when I had been on them for half a year I wanted to quit. I talked to my doctor about it and he agreed. I asked him how I should quit, because I had heard that it was best to do it slowly, but he told me that I just had to quit and that it wasn't neccesary to do it slowly. I thought that sounded a bit strange, but I did what he told me and that was a big mistake, because my depression returned and it was much worse than before! Today I wouldn't quit like that, if the doctor told me so, but at that time I was very inexperienced and I didn't think that my depression would get so bad. I would never take a cold turkey again that is for sure.