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  2. HugHK started following 54fiftyfour: trazodone WD
  3. Gazhardy
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  4. hangoninthere
    Hello team and hope you are doing well. I have started my zoloft weaning off on 1st o April. From 50mg I cut down to 37.5 drop by 25%) and I don't see until now any major changes except the usual ones that I have almost daily and don't know why , which are: a sense of overwhelm during the day everyday , ear ringing all the time, and strong chest pain and low back-pain. For the back pain I am starting today physiotherapy and see how it goes. Is the constant overwhelm from my zoloft and abilify use? Because I cut off the drugs and still have this overwhelm daily. I want to mention that I used to have anxiety daily when I was using Abilify and now I have this overwhelm all the time almost. Maybe the CNS is still very sensitive and is trying to adjust but to me is so exhausting at the end of the day Thank you and have a great day ❤️
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  6. Emonda
    The balancing act...I hear you. For me, I take the fact that it changes in intensity as a good thing—it's not permanent. I assume if it were permanent damage, the noise would be constant/consistent in intensity. I read Brassmonkey (I think) talk about WD normal (I interpret that as meaning stability). You still have symptoms, but they are manageable, and you can go about your normal day. Have a read of Windows and Waves again. Distractions help If other stuff has improved, this is positive. It's an unpleasant situation we finds ourselves in, but there is lots of support and encouragement on this site. Have a read of the success stories for a boost.
  7. FindRest

    Doctorsrcrap: can't cry and frustrated

    FindRest replied to Doctorsrcrap's topic in Introductions and updates

    Did they tell you what kind of cysts they are? I have several Tarlov cysts, aka nerve root cysts, on my spine. A couple of them are large and a few more medium and small. They wrap around the nerve roots. Mayo Clinic said the treatments are too risky and don’t work for a lot of people. They also said many doctors downplay their significance but they can be debilitating for many patients. You’ve repeatedly said that no one understands the pain you are in. The truth is some of us do, like I’ve told you before. I can be crippled by nerve pain. I’ve passed out from the pain several times. I know many people have it worse, as mine comes and goes, or I go in waves of several days/weeks, then it gets better. Things that have helped me are: 1. Keep hunting for a dr who will take you seriously. Don’t stop. Also hunt for the right physical therapist, one who knows how to help you. 2. Reviewing the MRI report and researching the exact diagnosis. (You need to find out what type of cysts you have and the precise locations. This will lead you to the right type of specialist.) 3. Wearing a back brace. 4. Ice/heat and repeat, repeat, repeat. Every single day. 5. It is possible to have epidural shots into your spine to take the pain away. They work wonders. 6. My TENS unit has been my saving grace. If you don’t have one, get a good one, then have a physical therapist show you where to attach the electrodes for best results. Don’t get a cheap one.
  8. Prozack
    What about rice?
  9. Josh
    hm, it’s really hard to tell what stability looks like. Is it just more manageable symptoms, or do I have to wait until I feel feel really good? it’s also hard as symptoms keep jumping around in their own timelines, like just as of yesterday I was becoming really distressed and frustrated with my ears clicking and the pressure and pain that came with it. This has worsened recently, but other stuff has gotten better. It’s so hard to tell! im so torn between these decisions and so scared to do any more detriment to myself. should I wait for my tinnitus to settle a lot more before I go up? It has settled slightly and I’m able to ignore it a bit more but it’s still there. Im finding this self management scheme very distressing as I just feel damned if I do damned if I don’t
  10. Doctorsrcrap

    Doctorsrcrap: can't cry and frustrated

    Doctorsrcrap replied to Doctorsrcrap's topic in Introductions and updates

    @LotusRising The pregablin is making me feel really sick and spaced out and I don't like it. If I wanted to could I just stop taking it? At what point does that become not an option. Its making me feel really ill
  11. Josh
    @Emonda ah I am so sorry to hear that! It’s really unfortunate that tinnitus comes into play with this medication and withdrawals I actually experienced tinnitus coming off prozac in January, since reinstating it has aggravated it slightly and it’s coming more present, it was diminishing a lot during the few months I had it before reinstating and I really hardly noticed it. Now, it’s a lot more present - im concerned I may be causing permanent damage to it by reinstating. But I was concerned that I was going to crash even more late down the line and got scared.
  12. Emonda
    It's your choice, but if you can give yourself another week, it might be worth trying. Stability is key, and allowing plenty of time to adjust to small changes. I know at times in the past I've wanted to make a change out of desperation for relief. With encouragement, I held my dose and stability came. I'm sorry you find yourself in this position.
  13. Emonda
    Very jarring - I can't recall what I told you, but I developed tinnitus after reinstating Lexapro ~10 years ago at too high a dose (I hadn't found this website back then). It's never gone away. Most of the time, it is just background noise. The WD symptom checklist lists tinnitus as a WD symptom of ADs. I dropped slightly more last month than normal, and it flared up my tinnitus...three weeks later, it's still jarring! I guess what I am saying is that if reinstating the AD has caused your tinnitus, you'd want to be careful about increasing the dose further. It's a fine line between getting stable and managing side effects. I don't know what the right answer for you is. I hope my rambling is a little helpful.
  14. Josh
    Hi @Emonda apologises I’ll clarify it here and then update my signature I started reinstating at 5ml (20mg) of prozac for 5 days, that was too much - took one day off then started reinstating at 0.1ml (0.4mg) which I held for 16 days. Then for 9 days I have been on 0.11ml (0.44mg a 10 % increase). i am looking to go up to 0.12ml (0.48 mg) today. when I started the 0.11ml I had two really bad days, intense anxiety and chest pains that felt related to the upped dose bout 4/5 days in, The other days have also been tough but mild anxiety and mainly physical and cognitive symptoms. It did feel like it went down and I wasn’t activated for long. I have been experiencing some windows in the morning before my dose and I’m the evenings sometimes when I have relaxed. i think so far so good. And I feel like I am strong enough to go up slightly again. I will read the article you put above, im assuming it works the same in reverse?
  15. 54fiftyfour

    54fiftyfour: trazodone WD

    54fiftyfour replied to 54fiftyfour's topic in Introductions and updates

    @Hibari, I suffer too much, it's not human. The problem is not only the strong depression, but also all the rest: akathisia, terror, extreme fatigue, nerves and muscle pain, derealization, breathlessness, sexual impairment, etc. I've also PSSD and PFS, not only BIND. This means that clonazepam, being a serotonin agonist, acts also as an SSRI, protracting my PSSD and giving me the symptoms of abstinence not only on GABA receptors. My brain will not be able to recover anymore and doesn't allow me to finish the taper. I can go to work, but I'm not productive. And I need to be helped from my parents with cooking and other things. I'm not able to enjoy anithing, only surviving at this total and painful mess.
  16. Emonda
    Hi Josh, It would be easier if I could glance at your signature and see that it uses the same measuring format as your posts. Your signature says you are at 0.4 (can you add "mg" after the 0.4, please). However, your post says you are going to increase to 0.12ml (from 0.11ml, I think, from reading a previous post). It would be best to stick with the same format so we can avoid confusion. So it's been ~3 weeks at your current dose? Overall there has been improvement? As to the size of the increase in the proposed dose, small is a safer way to test the waters. As to the way you are taking your mediation, I'd have a read of this:
  17. PattyCatty started following Mamgu: reducing citalopram
  18. PattyCatty

    Mamgu: reducing citalopram

    PattyCatty replied to Mamgu's topic in Introductions and updates

    Congratulations @Mamgu on them 0.5 millstone
  19. PattyCatty

    PattyCatty: Tapering off 10mg Citalopram

    PattyCatty replied to PattyCatty's topic in Introductions and updates

    I've recalibrated the scales again and this seems to have fixed the issue of weight moving up and down. The pill weighed 0.063g I'm going start by crushing the pill and transferring the whole thing into a capsule. I will start by taking 100% of the pill this way as I'm sure crushing it will change bioavailability. I will take the pill this way for a week and confirm it feels no different / let my body settle. Then I will take 75% of the pill this way plus 25% liquid to start the transfer over to liquid. I did a test run of the crushing and filling capsule. I followed the brass monkey way of using two spoons to crush and using a post it note on the scales. The pill weighed 0.002g less after crushing so a bit of loss which can't be helped. I aim to start taking the crushed pill in a week. Just setting the ground work.
  20. Emonda

    fightwoman: multiple drugs

    Emonda replied to fightwoman's topic in Introductions and updates

    Thanks @fightwoman. I've asked the small team of volunteers for their input. BTW, we changed your name to fightwoman, rather than fightgirl as per our PMs. Regards, Emonda
  21. PattyCatty

    Using a scale to weigh and measure doses

    PattyCatty replied to JoLe's topic in Tapering

    Please ignore above. Recalibration again seems to have done it. Thank you.
  22. Loulabloom started following Mariah Five weeks into tapering off Lexapro
  23. jon1
    I guess as it’s non-pharmacological, and non-intrusive, it may be worth a shot. My only reservation is that we’re still not sure what causes withdrawal tinnitus, and if it’s the same as ‘normal’ tinnitus. I’m a musician, and had mild tinnitus before I took SSRIs, and still do. The tinnitus I have from withdrawal is very different in sound and behaviour. So I’m not sure if the mechanisms that cause it are the same.
  24. jon1
    It’s pretty frustrating isn’t it! I’m sticking to the ‘if something has an ingredient I’ve never heard of, or wouldn’t be found in a home kitchen, I avoid it’. Seems to work so far. Ironically I’ve probably never eaten so healthily. I’ve had hypersensitivity to sounds and movement a lot, I think it’s a relatively common withdrawal symptom. When we’re in ‘fight or flight’ mode, our bodies make our hearing and vision much more sensitive, to watch out for threats. Withdrawal often means this is happening a lot more without an external cause. So the slightest thing can cause a rush of adrenaline and stress. Pretty much anything can make it worse, emotions, exercise, some foods, chemicals (in foods and in the environment), even working too hard mentally. Inside, you’re probably still enjoying those movies, but your bodies ability to regulate stress is currently compromised, so instead of triggering dopamine, it triggers a release of stress hormones. It does improve, but it can take time.
  25. Gonzo
    Everything I did 8 years ago was in order to feel and be a "moral" person, to stop feeling so immoral and miserable, to fit in my relational environment and to satisfy my human needs, to survive and live a good life. Then I psychiatry told me I was crazy and immoral, mentally ill, disordered, broken beyond repair while I was locked down, incarcelated, behind bars, treated like a crazy and dangerous criminal, it pathologized me, my "dysfunctional" coping strategies and my needs, and drugged me, all this happened while I still desperately needed moral support to feel "moral", in an accute crisis mental and emotional state, overwhelmed. Instead of being helped and supported I was judged, victimized, gaslighted, stigmatized, pathologized, drugged and made an addict. And I ended up believing what psychiatry told me, sadly. There is not, and there was not, and there won't be solution, meaning, or answer to my problems in the insane moral guide of psychiatry, in its scam, it's just oppresive.
  26. itsalyssadood

    itsalyssadood: Lexapro taper

    itsalyssadood replied to itsalyssadood's topic in Introductions and updates

    I haven’t felt this way in a long time, I just had my second panic attack today. I have nothing but rapid ruminating thoughts and dread 24/7. I need hope ☹️ I'm wondering if some other medication I took triggered this. I got a pinched nerve in my neck last week, went to the urgent care and they gave me meloxicam. It’s just an anti inflammatory and I can already handle ibuprofen so it’s no big deal. Here’s where things went a little south, I had left over Oxycodone from my surgery and took 5mg. It gave me a racing heart, spinning thoughts and a panic attack. That was 3 nights ago. Can this be left over from that? Plus, the last two nights I took hydroxyzine to help me sleep through the pain. Do any of you think maybe that’s what’s causing this?
  27. OnTheMend

    Tips for tapering off duloxetine (Cymbalta)

    OnTheMend replied to Altostrata's topic in Tapering

    I’ve done a few searches here looking for advice or any experiences of taking Duloxetine made by different manufacturers. I’ve been using a generic brand for years. There’s a supply problem at the moment and only the Cymbalta brand, made by Lily is available. Getting my first box of this coincided with the start of my taper and I just got my next script dispensed and it’s also Cymbalta. Who knows when the generic will be available again. Is there any concern about switching between brand name and generic Duloxetine during tapering? If I get the generic again I know I will have to start over counting the beads to get an average (which will likely be different to the Cymbalta brand) to calculate my dosage. Thanks
  28. OnTheMend

    Tips for tapering off duloxetine (Cymbalta)

    OnTheMend replied to Altostrata's topic in Tapering

    I’ve done a few searches here looking for advice or any experiences of taking Duloxetine made by different manufacturers. I’ve been using a generic brand for years. There’s a supply problem at the moment and only the Cymbalta brand, made by Lily is available. Getting my first box of this coincided with the start of my taper and I just got my next script dispensed and it’s also Cymbalta. Who knows when the generic will be available again. Is there any concern about switching between brand name and generic Duloxetine during tapering? If I get the generic again I know I will have to start over counting the beads to get an average (which will likely be different to the Cymbalta brand) to calculate my dosage. Thanks
  29. Gonzo
    Al principio no me creí la mentira de la psiquiatría pero con el tiempo me la terminé creyendo porque me absorbió, porque se convirtió en mi única realidad, olvidar cómo era mi vida antes de la droga, y finalmente caí en su engaño químico. Nunca entendí mis emociones y sentimientos morales, mi culpa, mi vergüenza, siempre los sentí como alien, anormales, peligrosos, locos, muy intensos y angustiantes, desbordantes, mis experiencias internas. La culpa y la vergüenza, las emociones y sentimientos morales, envían mensajes poderosos y necesarios, esenciales.
  30. Sorah started following Exercise ... Do more, do less, do nothing? What worked for you?
  31. Onmyway started following No end to the suffering in sight
  32. Onmyway

    No end to the suffering in sight

    Onmyway replied to AlphaAgony's topic in Introductions and updates

    Hi @AlphaAgony welcome to SA. I am so sorry you are suffering so badly. I think you need to stop tapering and let your body heal a bit. You have CT'ed from Wellbutrin in 2022 and then did a fast taper off of Citalopram 20mg. A proper 10% a month taper should have taken you over 3 years. Did you have side effects from it which may prompt a faster taper? I have been tapering citalopram since September 2018 with lots of breaks. Adding a trazodone taper before you have recovered from the relatively fast citalopram taper is not a good idea. You need to give your body and mind a rest. Not sleeping is not good and it is a sign that your body is struggling to make the adjustments to the taper. However, no need to panic. Sleeping only 3-4 hrs a night is doable (I did it for months!). The only way to do this properly is to do it slowly. OMW Here is an informative piece on what is happening in your brain while you are tapering. https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/forums/topic/10914-what-is-happening-in-your-brain/#comment-199680
  33. 6Eggs

    PSSD Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

    6Eggs replied to Altostrata's topic in Symptoms and self-care

    Pretty much, I am glad you mentioned this here as there are not many mentions of very delayed WD or delayed worsening after initial improvement. I am experiencing the same thing as you, the WD symptoms including PSSD have become much worse 4 months after and counting post quitting. This is basically the 2nd and technically 3rd time I have had this delayed effect. First from the antipsych first attempt in 2021, then a more mild version of this when I quit the antipsych for good after reinstatement of a micro dose and 18 month taper of said micro dose to some 1/150th of the original dose, then again the 3rd time quite badly from this antidepressant which I tapered properly for 20 months or there about. I think the AD WD are worse in a lot of ways as they are more relentless and mental torture and like you mentioned in the other post like bipolar. I was on the AD far longer than the AP and the AD breaks the more critical machinery in the neurons than the AP would as far as I can understand for my 1000s of hours of a crash course PhD in pharmacology lol I conclude that WD are not avoidable at all for some people. I have seen one case personally on another forum that a guy got WD and PSSD 4 years post quitting and the interesting thing is the trigger seemed to be too much gym work outs, which bodes to the whole "CNS is in a fragile states long after symptoms have cleared" and it doesn't take too much mental or physical stress to trigger the CNS to go haywire. WD and PSSD are very much like post viral syndrome, CFS and things related like long covid which is under the umbrella of post viral syndrome. Taking it easy and pacing yourself and time is key to recovery. It's very easy to go "oh I feel better today" (during a window) and do too much, which sets you back and prolongs recovery. Don't worry, I am soooo guilty of this myself and I deny this all the time, but my partner ensures me that this is the pattern she sees, so I am only coming to terms that I must refrain from doing stuff I love and enjoy too much when I have my windows. Very frustrating!
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