Hello everyone.My name is Sébastien, i'm 37 years old and I live in France. I've always been very anxious but i'm a in a terrible state since 1 month.
I'm suffering from depression/anxiety since 4 months. (i've been on ativan since 2 months)
So I've been on Paxil for 1 week at 10mg, but it gave me severe urinary retention. I took it for 6 days and one day at 5mg.
I was having an appointment with a psychiatrist the day after i stopped Paxil (so the next day), and he advice me to take Zoloft (Sertralin) beacause it was much more tolerable and less side effects on libido. (sorry for my terrible english)
I took half dose of Zoloft (25mg) on Thursday 9. This night, I went to bed and as soon as I closed my eyes, an intense light activity appeared, with lot of flashes and lights, dots, lots of "pictures" at a very high speed etc. I've also had kind of "hallucinations". I've had my psychiatrist on the phone and he said that these kind of side effects were unknown with Zoloft etc., my pharmacist said that was normal, beginning of an antidepressant treatment. I took Zoloft for 4 days and now i'm no longer taken it.
Now since 1 month i have
Light sensitivity
Negative After images
Halos
CEV
More floaters than before
I know that my symptoms are not as severe as many of you...
I've seen 2 ophtalmologist, 1 neurologist; had a brain scanner and MRI, everything is "normal".
These symptoms seems to improve a little bit but i drank so much on New years Eve... and now they are worse, especially the negative after images. No More alcohol for me.
All of this doesn't help my anxiety, I hate my psychiatrist and I hate my self, was just so dumb to take this poison, now i'm very upset and scared.
I take vitamins, magnesium (300mg) and Omega 3 fish oil (1050 EPA/day) since 1 week
What do you think about that ? Is there any people who had experienced similar symptoms with SSRIs ?
Thanks a lot for your consideration.