Bad situation symptoms and conditions

I've been on Zoloft for about 4 years now (100mg) a day and I really want to stop taking it. At the time I was put on it I was just getting myself out of a really bad situation and I needed to be put on it for severe anxiety and panic attacks. I'm in a totally different situation now and am doing fine, I don't want to rely on medication anymore to make me feel "ok". I actually kind of feel like it's counteracting in my system. The only thing really holding me back is the fear of crazy side effects after you stop taking it. I heard you can even have a heart attack =/ Has anyone gone through this or going through it right now?

I'm trying to wean myself off Geodon and I had a minor, panic attack,. My doctor won't help me because she said I need to see a psychiatrist but I can't afford to see one. Does anyone know how long the side effect last when you get off Geodon. I am a single parent and have a job I need to function at so any advice will help. I have ,anxiety, all the time the doc had to prescribe some anti-anxiety medicine which I never had anxiety like that before. My symptoms on the medication is sleeplessness, restlessness, loss of appetite, can quit moving, racing thoughts, depression.

I got the Mirena in may of 2007.I as you guys did thought it was great in the beginning the i realized i was always tired. I admit i didn't think it was the Mirena then I started having pain doc. said it nothing now i'm sad to report tha i have lost 70% of my hair thanks to Mirena.Hope you women who still have get it out before your hair falls out like mine.This should be against the law there was nothing stated in the side affects list about hair lost.My doctor suggested to me because she had been taking it.My last appt.i notice her hair was falling out too.I wanted to ask her if she thought it was the mirena because her hair looked just like mine,but i didn't want to be all in her business,this is a bad situation and im sorry i ever heard about the mirena.

My nephew is 7 and has been on Singulair for probably 4 years. His symptoms developed over time but recently have exploded. He has epilepsy so most of the things that he has experienced has been blamed on that. However, today his doctor took him off singulair and said he believes his symptoms are caused from the drug. He started having head drop seizures, fell out of his desk and cut his face one day. He has also been depressed, had severe anxiety attacks for the past 8 months. Several months ago, he started having such severe nightmares that it is almost impossible to get him to go to bed and go to sleep. Recently he began "seeing dead people" and "monsters" that we trying to kill him even when he was awake. He has also cried many nights with leg cramps and severe stomach pain. I will update this page in two - three weeks to let you know if these problems go away now that we have stopped the singulair.

IRON DEFICIENCY or ANEMIA

I already told you ladies about iron deficiency in one of my earlier posts. But yesterday my doc finally supposed the same when I told him about my now again upcoming symptoms (tight chest, breathlessness after walking or doing anything, muscle weakness, nausea, tiredness, circulation problems, etc.).

So I'll finally get my iron levels checked on friday (my gyn, whom I had visited a few weeks before, didn't do anything like that at all, he again just told me to "wait and see" if the problems perhaps get better by themselves..... Wow, what a nice suggestion in such a bad situation. Thank you!).

Perhaps one thing for some of you to get checked, too!? I think it might be worth it and could be another chance to find a solution!!

Check the symptoms of iron deficiency over google or whatever, I'm sure you'll find some of yours!!

All the best to you out there!!

Silke

I started at 80mg while hospitalized for Sarcoidosis at the end of May. Prednisone allowed me to breathe. I was advised to keep a low sodium, low fat diet, vegies, fruits, no processed foods, exercise, plenty of water. Following that advise I have been lucky and not gained weight. I do have the "moon" face though. My dosage was lowered to 60 mg when I left the hospital then a week later to 40 mg and it took 2 months at 40 mg for the "moon face" to appear. At the end of this week I will drop to 20 mg until Sept when I see my lung Dr. My side effects seem to be minimal at this point and the prednisone truely helped me out of a bad situation.