Interestingly enough, " drug-free weekends" or sometimes called "drug holidays" is a management strategy that some doctors suggest to ease sexual side effects on SSRIs.FindGoodNickname wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 7:12 am I am fighting with too much sleep sooooo much.
Before reinstatement, I noticed that I sleep very much, and I noticed that my anxiety comes back.
Then I reinstated, and I was hoping that the sleepiness would go away.
But unfortunately that was not the case.
I think (as somebody warned me) that I drenched all serotonine by using a really high dose of Sertraline (400 mg over several days).
Now I am really tired. I could easily sleep 16 hours a day because it's so boring and nothing drives me.
Because I think I used up all serotonine, I am currently not taking Sertraline anymore. Instead I use 200 mg Bupropion / day.
My sex drive is good, I have wood, and I have flirted very much today. And I had sex dreams and morning wood.
But as I said, my main problem right now is the urge to sleep.
Very, very, very annoying.
At first, it was only physical exhaustion that made me go to bed, and now it's a combination of boredom + physical exhaustion, I think.
The anxiety and sleepiness occured 1 year after PSSD occured.
I remember that when I used Sertraline (pre-PSSD), and I did not take it, I became very tired.
When I took Sertraline, the sleepiness went away. That's why I was hoping that reinstatement would fix the problem.
I think I will now wait 1 month because in the "Food for thought" article on Prof. Healy's website somebody said that he used high dose Sertraline for reinstatement, then quit cold turkey, and after 1 month, PSSD was gone for him.
That's what I will test now.
Sertraline definitively helped me with libido and sensitivity and orgasm. A few days ago I had an amazing orgasm with my gf. It was like universe exploded. But before that I was sertraline-free for 2 days. On Sertraline, everything feels numb, and I can not ejaculate. So I made "drug free weekends".
ps: If something exciting happens, I get awake again and work in my business, but if nothing happens, I just sleep.
I remember that first I was sleepy but still in good spirits. It was like "Noooo, I don't want to sleep now, but I have to..."
So it's NOT depression that triggers sleepiness, I would say.
It looks like that worked for you and GF.
Regarding excessive sleepiness, you should definitely screen for narcolepsy.
Best of luck.