Depression treatment is based on antidepressant medication, and how long its withdrawal reaction lasts varies from person to person and from medication to medication, with the general situation disappearing within 2 weeks.
New antidepressant drugs have now become the first-line drugs in the treatment of depression, commonly used drugs are sertraline, paroxetine, etc., venlafaxine, duloxetine, mirtazapine and so on. Antidepressant drugs suddenly stopping the drug will appear some withdrawal reaction.
Antidepressant drug withdrawal reaction occurs when the drug is suddenly discontinued, and its common symptoms are headache, insomnia, nausea, vomiting, anxiety and irritability, emotional instability, tingling, feeling abnormal and other symptoms. In order to minimize the occurrence of withdrawal reaction in the clinic, in the case of the need to stop the drug, generally given a slow reduction in the way to gradually stop.
Its drug withdrawal reaction how long to disappear, due to the different drugs, the patient’s physique is different, the duration is not the same, in general, usually in 2 weeks of time to disappear, individual patients may need a few months of time.
Depression patients need to stop the drug under the guidance of the physician, on the one hand, to reduce the occurrence of drug withdrawal reaction, on the other hand, to prevent the recurrence of the disease, do not stop the drug on their own, to bring unnecessary trouble.