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Canuckled
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Switching from antidepressants to micro dosing question
#27091081 - 12/15/20 07:54 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I am currently taking 200mg of Sertraline, (Zoloft), to help deal with my depression. Since I started, I have become a completely different person. Happy, calm, easy going, etc... thanks to the medication and therapy. My issue is the side effects.
I have zero libido. lol love my partner, and am extremely attracted to her, but my sex drive seems non existent. When I first started this medication, I was at 50mg. I became so affectionate and cuddly, but as the dosage increased, my libido decreased.
I have on again/off again vertigo. Most of the time it’s manageable, but my job has me constantly moving, and when it’s acting up, I have to sit down at times, just to calm it.
Heartburn is the worst con from this medication. If I take it too late at night, it gets bad. The first time I thought I was having a heart attack, and went to the hospital. I find it’s starting to happen even when I take it in the morning.
I have been doing a lot of research on the effectiveness of micro dosing psilocybin as opposed to antidepressant medication, and just wanted to get some feedback from others who might have switched over. Are there any side effects? What are the dosage amount for beginners?
I have a doctors appointment coming up in January, which I will be discussing this with him. We have talked about lowering my dosage, but I want to bring up alternatives to him. I am aware that I can’t be on both at the same time, which is why I’d love to get more information that I can take with me when I speak with him in the new year.
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Ignorantape
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Re: Switching from antidepressants to micro dosing question [Re: Canuckled]
#27091508 - 12/16/20 02:44 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Side effects of micro-dosing are usually limited to a minor rise in neuroticism if you use them too often. Other than that I'm not aware of any other noticeable side effects. So just stick to a schedule and you should be fine.
Dosage will depend upon the individual and the strength of your mushrooms. Usually you'd just start at 0.1g and slowly up the dose until you're happy with it. My ideal schedule is to take it every third day in the morning.
I'm very interested to hear what your doctor's opinion will be. Please report back.
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Canuckled
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Re: Switching from antidepressants to micro dosing question [Re: Ignorantape]
#27093732 - 12/17/20 09:05 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thank you for the response. How do you feel on the off days, when you’re not taking them? The SSRI’s have really helped me, but like I said, the side effects are horrible.
I will definitely post back about what my doctor says. He was the one that suggested marijuana before I started going on antidepressants.
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Barnaby
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Re: Switching from antidepressants to micro dosing question [Re: Canuckled]
#27097094 - 12/19/20 05:54 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I am currently taking 200mg of Sertraline, (Zoloft)"
I have zero libido."
Don't put those two together with microdosing and anti frown.
Yep. 10 years of basically everything and that shit, I took it for awhile. My psych doctor said when I complained about that aspect of it that if someone could find that cure when on such "medicine" they would become very rich. As a joke as she got it with respect to her.
Reading your post, no advice. I just sense you have sexually and in other ways a long road of hell ahead of you. Not set in stone, no pun. Just I hope you have someone that works with you through the years. I know the feeling of a limp dick. So strange to not be able to.
When before going at it till she said she was sore and I respect that. She was a wonderful woman and friend with benifits but she fucked a guy that I didn't like so that was that. Was a ugly man as well, no bitterness.
You will find your way. It is part of meds. I dealt with it for a long time. Found my Holy Grail.
Just be grateful if you have a decent sized dick/cock. Don't know if you are U.K. I can't give medical advice, will be banned but there is hope, been through it. A woman holding up a magazine folded as surprised as large mine was, didn't give a sense of pride, just to go easy.
You will find your way in time. Or not. Need some Ween. I got the lyrics on a bus when listening to this song. May it bring you some peace. To me the message that stuck out was, not hating people so much. Lol.
One does jail and the hardships and has had esoteric experiences from other substances and the judgements and the hatred. No. I get it. Spend 3 months in county but then have someone tell you about a guy they were around that was looking at 18 years. And the infamous New Orleans murder guy! People looked at him land kept a strange circular loop around him as, this guy has very much to lose before being transferred to prison.
Just, they have never worked for me with the psychotic drugs. Feels when I took them and the new ones that I tossed in the garbage, don't use the toilet, that I couldn't reach my consciousness. Like struggling up for air underwater is the best I can explain it. Was panic attacks.
Wrote to much but still. Whatever works for you I hope it does. No Saint, just I know the hell I went through especially in a psych ward way back. Greatest and the newest now that I took recently doesn't mean it works. But maybe for you. Seen people at NAMI working that are like fucking zombies talking to. It just cuts of consciousness IME. And the fear of not knowing what my mind is doing compared to having some cohesion to it is more frightening to me. On with it.
Always checked myself in by choice. Have given up on that and have a lot of support and my psych doctor is coming back which makes me happy. My mind is like humpty dumpty. It is fractured and can anyone put it back together again? She made my life livable. And we went through the whole gambit of pharms. I hope it works out.
Is long winded but when is so bored and the mind needs something to focus on, I stared at a carpet and the designs and my third eye/imagination, don't see a reason for a dot used that to entertain myself. Long ago. On with life.
Have found with my therapy the listening therapy, when someone actually listens to one has helped me process the most through my mind and life. When can you actually be honest and not all the garbage from friends and women hidden and afraid to be talked about?
Edited by Barnaby (12/19/20 06:26 AM)
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