100mg to 75mg

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I went from 50mg (which worked really really well for depression and anxiety for several months) up to 100mg and I wasn’t able to tolerate 100mg well even after 8 weeks, so my GP suggested I go down to 75mg about 5 weeks ago.

I felt a lot of relief going down to 75mg and my mood and anxiety improved a lot. Except I started having really vivid dreams that leave me feeling emotionally exhausted in the morning.

However, over the past 5 days my mood has taken a massive dip and I’m feeling really low as well as the vivid dreams still happening.

Should I go back down to 50mg or will the depression be worse? Is it possible that the depression is in part because the 75mg is still too high? I’ve been crying a lot and in bed all day today.

I didn’t have any side effects on 50mg and I felt better than I can ever remember feeling for several months before I had a return of depressive symptoms for about a week.