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  1. Hello everyone, I am delighted to have found this group. I am looking for a way to get off of antidepressants (although I take them for GAD and not necessarily depression). For the past 20 years, I have taken either a 100 mg. Or 50 mg. dose of Imipramine. I’d say for the last 7 years, I’ve been on the 50 mg. dose. One day, 7 years ago, I just decided I didn’t want to be on 100 mg of Imipramine. I suddenly cut down to a 50 mg. dose with no problems or side effects. About 3 years ago, I thought I’d like to taper more so I took my 50 mg. dose, and cut it into 4 pieces and took 3 out of the 4 pieces. Two days later, I thought I was going to die. I was sweating, nauseated, dry heaving, dizzy and the symptoms of the worst flu of my life. I quickly went back to the 50 mg. tablet and that all went away. I’ve talked to my psychiatrist about tapering and getting off my meds, but she just wants me to switch to a 70 mg. dose of Effexor. My thinking and her thinking are not matching. I really would like to take a natural approach to dealing with my anxiety, but she doesn’t want to work with me in that. My questions are; 1. Are there effective natural approaches to dealing with severe anxiety? My anxiety is typically worry (about EVERYTHING) and health anxiety. 2. Can I survive getting off this pill and how do I do this? I have a full time job and a son with severe autism, so severe side effects are not going to work for me. I appreciate any input.😊 GeeBee
  2. I have been taking Imipramine since my late teens, and have been on it for the past 38 years. (50 mg., but sometimes 75 mg. for short periods) For a long time it helped in varying degrees, but seems to have become completely ineffective as of approximately 4 years ago. I have tried numerous times to get off this medication, but always end up going back on due to withdrawal symptoms. Each time, the withdrawal is different, but equally awful. I have been working on tapering down for the last 3 or 4 months and am currently taking 12.5 mg. This is my fourth week holding at that dose. I've been dealing with the typical withdrawal symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, achiness, as well as weird symptoms typical to this drug. Apparently Imipramine is also used for bedwetting, and after 38 years of being on it, affects my bladder control going off it. Combine this with a histamine effect coming off as well, and you can picture me trying to breathe, sneezing my head off, while trying to keep from peeing every time I sneeze. I have no appetite or energy, no love for life, and am impatient and cranky. Just forcing myself from one activity to another to stay afloat. I would love to hear from folks who have been on this med long term and have succeeded in coming off. I am so miserable right now I am thinking about going back on. If I do, I feel like it's resigning to being on it for the rest of my life.
  3. MOD NOTE : RealMe's Introduction thread is here ------------------------------------ Because of what I learned here and with the support I found here, I have been completely free of anti-depressants. I have not taken any mood altering chemicals in over two years, so I finally feel competent to write my success story. When I got here I was so confused, I'm not even sure what I was taking. I reported my symptoms to the psychiatrist, primary care doctor and therapist, and all were in total agreement that I "needed medication." Even in my confused mental state, I finally realized that nothing they recommended was doing anything but making me worse. When I tried to get support to withdraw from psychiatric medications, I was told I was having a resurgence of my "depression." No one in the medical field that I came in contact with would support me in my desire to get off meds, and no one would acknowledge the phenomenon of "withdrawal syndrome" from anti-depressants. To this day, I have a very skeptical attitude toward all doctors and feel that, regardless of how well-meaning they might be, they are nevertheless medicating people into senselessness. My mantra is to "never snivel or weep in front of anyone with a prescription pad." When I was 19, I went to the clergy for help with nervousness and low self esteem. From there I was referred to a psychiatrist who gave me Valium. That was the beginning of the end for me. Now I had an addiction to sedatives along with increasing nervousness and lower self esteem. Later I was given Tofranil, Elavil, Desyrel, Prozac, Wellbutrin, Abilify (a real killer in my experience) and some others. I gained a ton of weight and lost my ability to feel normal feelings at all. I remember being at my father's funeral and thinking something must be wrong because I didn't cry. Not only did I not cry, I couldn't feel anything. And I loved my father. Over the years, I tried on my own many times unsuccessfully to detox from these prescribed medications. By the time I arrived at this web site, I was trying to withdraw from Abilify, Wellbutrin and Prozac. I learned about slow and steady until I had decreased my dosage of Prozac to liquid from a dropper. It was extremely difficult to get my doctor to prescribe the liquid form for my detox because he was still insisting that I could not do without a full dose! He insisted that I see a therapist and agree to go back on medication if I "got worse." I don't think about that process very much. I went to the therapist and told him whatever I thought would convince him that I was fine without medication. Then I would report my true and actual symptoms to the people on this forum and took their suggestions. Thinking of "puppies and kittens" as a coping strategy makes me smile to this day. What I do think about often is that I have been drug free for a long time. I feel happy, sad, anxious, calm, confident, worried, fearful, full of faith. In other words, I am leading a normal life with a full range of emotions that are appropriate to either what life throws at me or what life offers to me. At first, I feared that I was too old to change after years of being in psychiatry land, but I wasn't. I believed what I discovered here, and I am extremely grateful to have survived anti-depressant withdrawal.
  4. It was 1980, and started to develop severe headaches (Clusters?) like a hot knife in my head on a daily basis. I thought I had a brain tumor. I wound up at a neurologist and was prescribed Tofranil, for head/neck pain, without being told about side effects. There was no internet/side effects papers with the meds that I could look up. Shortly after taking them I started to feel foggy, (which I thought was normal) then I experienced ringing in my ears, electric feeling in my nerves, nightmares, feeling depersonalized, hallucinations. I remembering saying to myself it cant be Torfranil, the doctor said it was for pain. After 1-2 months I stopped taking Tofranil, and anything else (vitamins etc). It took a year plus, for the symptoms to subside, some quicker than others, yet it was like I was at times observing myself when I would be at work or home. Very scary/unnerving experience. Lots of exercise, progressive relaxation helped me, but there was a lot of trial and error. I recently saw somebody from that time in my life and these memories flooded back. I felt the need to understand what happen to me, and with some Google research I discovered the symptoms were a adverse side effect to Tofranil. I wanted to share this, to provide some insight/hope to others that are experiencing troubling symptoms.
  5. Hey there. I'm new to this. I am thinking about discontinuing my antidepressants. I am currently on Tofranil been taking it about 7 months. I feel like it doesn;t really help. and every time i speak with my psychiatrist she just ups the dose and i feel like it really doesn't make a difference, I really need supoort on what i should do or suggestions. thanks.
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