Is it time to up my dosage?

Treatment and medication
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Entering my 3rd week of 100mg a day with Klonopin 0.25mg 1-2 times a day. Used to be on Zoloft years ago and was at 200mg a day. Since I am not having many physical side effects is it time to ask my doc to up me to 150mg?

First week was pretty great but this second week I have had more anxiety / intrusive thoughts. Wanting to call my doc to perhaps move to the next step up.

Advice? Trying to stay positive but it's hard lately... feelings of hopelessness, anxious, and worrying a lot. Feel like I am a bad person for these intrusive thoughts even though I know they are not real.

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Were you on a lower dose before the 100mg?

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i would jump up. call the doc, but if you aren't having any bad side effects--go for it. iespecially since you have been on it in the past....

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Perhaps you could wait the 3rd week out and if it's not better then yes ask the doctor to up your dose. Reason I say this is I had some weeks that were harder than the last with increased anxiety etc when I was upping doses, so I said to myself, if it's longer than 2 weeks, then go back to the doctors. And it seemed to work for me, just to ride out that bad period smile  

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Yes before 100mg I was on 50mg but that was literally only for like 2-3 days and then I was upped to 100mg a day.

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I called a few days ago and he upped me to 150mg a day now. My

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I think I may be experiencing what you did with upping doses... my doctor upped me to 150mg a day now and it's been 3 days. My anxiety has actually felt worse... will this subside in the coming days/weeks?

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Another note,

I have only been back on Zoloft for 3 weeks and I have already gone from starting at 50mg a day (only was at this dosage for 2-3 days), then I was at 100mg a day (about 2 weeks at this level), and now in my third week I was upped to 150mg. Have these increases been happening too soon? I don't want to go much higher... I know 200mg is where you start to max out and 250mg is the absolute highest they can allow. I don't want to max out the daily limit and especially not this soon...

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It does sound like you were upped very quickly, everyone is different of course, but for me, I stayed on 25mg for a long time just because of the range of bad side effects I got. Then once I felt good on that, the doctor upped me to 50mg (this was about after 4 weeks or so on 25). When I upped the dose this time, it wasn't as bad as my body had enough time to deal with inital side effects the first time around. 

I remember initially my DR prescribed me 25mg for 1 week then up to 50mg, but said to come back if I had side effects and we would keep on 25mg for a bit longer. I would say that a trip to the doctor to mention the side effects could be worth your while smile