anxiey30I am 17 wks pregnant and I was on effexor XR, but the doctor took me off , so know my panic and anxiety is back full force and im afraid of dying over anything brain hemmorhange, anuerysum etc... so she gave me zoloft to try and noone can really tell me if its got the same ingredients as effexor? Im not a huge pill person and I dont want to be the person that takes zoloft and has a reaction to something and keil over??? Any suggestions?
Questions about Zoloft and Effexor XR?
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- 10 Jul 2010 by anxiey30
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- effexor, effexor xr, zoloft, anxiety, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, pregnancy
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maso416910 Jul 2010
Zoloft and Pregnancy: An Overview
Zoloft (sertraline hydrochloride) is a pregnancy Category C medicine, meaning that Zoloft could potentially cause harm to your unborn child. This is especially true during the third trimester of pregnancy.
Zoloft and Pregnancy Category C
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) uses a pregnancy category system to classify the possible risks to a fetus when a specific medicine is taken during pregnancy. Pregnancy Category C refers to medicines that have not been studied in pregnant humans but do appear to cause harm to the fetus in animal studies. Also, medicines that have not been studied in any pregnant women or animals automatically are given a pregnancy Category C rating.
Anonymous 10 Jul 2010
Hi Hon,
As a guy that's old enought to be your gramps, I would think that Zoloft shoud work fine, as long as no hidden side effects pop up.
Good luck with the new little one Oh, that's a good thing not like eating a lot of pills.
Gods love and peace to you and the baby.
Uncle Buck,
after the movie Uncle Buck
WINK, LOL
Anonymous 10 Jul 2010
Hi, I just want to tell you something that occured during my pregnancy. First, let me say that I have had anxiety since I was in my early twenties. Yet, when I was preggers, I found, quite to my delight, that the panic attacks STOPPED.
I have never felt better in my life as when I was pregnant.
I pray that you have the same thing happen to you!
Best wishes and congratulations on your impending joy! sweetlemon
anxiey30
10 Jul 2010
well i wish i could say that. My aunt is at therapist and she said that most women in stead of getting post pardom with their child they skip that stage and go to panic/anxiety and in my case I think thats what happened. I have always worried about whats the worst thing that could happen and being pregnant increases that, I havent even really enjoyed my pregnancy becuase of this mess I feel besides the amount of stress that I feel and what it could be doing to the baby. Now that your not pregnant did your panic come back? THanks for your reply its always a releif to feel that your not alone and noone in my family suffers from this so I feel very alone at times... thank you!!
Anonymous 11 Jul 2010
Hi again, yes, actually the panic attacks did come back after my wonderfull daughter was born, along with post-pardom depression. But I got on Xanax, and that stopped the panic attacks in their tracks.
Please oh please, do not concentrate on the "what if's", as this will only compound your anxiety! We women tend to ruminate when we need not. Try to replace every negative thought that comes to mind with a positive one. I know how hard that is when one is in the dark abyss of depression, yet I do believe in mind-over-matter, do you? xo sweetlemon
JenMcNabb7 Dec 2010
Zoloft and Effexor XR are both in the same class of antidepressants call ssri's (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) majority of these medications are a pregnancy category C which means there has been little or no studies done in pregnant humans but studies have been done in lab animals and show some risk to an animal fetus. If your dr prescribes a pregnancy category c medication for you then your dr feels that the benefits of the medication out weigh the risks to your unborn child. If you have extreme anxiety there is a medication called Vistaril it is a category D which means there is some rick to the baby but this medication has worked wonders for a friend of mine who had extreme panic attacks when she was pregnant. I am currently pregnant with my 6th child and had to be on numerous medications with each of my pregnancies and at the moment I am taking 75mg of Effexor XR and 800mg of Seroquel. When I enter my 3rd trimester I plan to slowly decrease these medications so that I am able to breastfeed. I have a panic disorder also so I wish you the best.
19 Apr 2011
Zoloft is an ssri, where as effexor XR is an ssnri, so I think it should be the same and work the same the only difference is that u r not getting the nor-epinepherine reuptaked, only the selective seratonin! And I am also pregnant 23 weeks and have taken this since I was 16 and no bad outcomes just a much happier person!!! Hope this helps:-)
hudson17
12 Jan 2012
Be careful, the norepinephrine reputake sent my anxiety and panic through the roof!
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