Moderator Emeritus ChessieCat Posted August 28, 2020 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted August 28, 2020 How you read Alto's experience? ☼-about-altostrata-withdrawal-syndrome-since-2004 * NO LONGER ACTIVE on SA * MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: (6 year taper) 0mg Pristiq on 13th November 2021 ADs since ~1992: 25+ years - 1 unknown, Prozac (muscle weakness), Zoloft; citalopram (pooped out) CTed (very sick for 2.5 wks a few months after); Pristiq: 50mg 2012, 100mg beg 2013 (Serotonin Toxicity) Tapering from Oct 2015 - 13 Nov 2021 LAST DOSE 0.0025mg Post 0 updates start here My tapering program My Intro (goes to tapering graph) VIDEO: Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome and its Management Link to comment
Mentor Heath Posted August 28, 2020 Mentor Share Posted August 28, 2020 @Altostrata and @Mark I am glad I didn’t take Paxil again! 2000-2013 Paxil - 1 year fast taper 2013-2018 merry go round zoloft, cymbalta, lamictal, Prozac. Nov. 2018 lexapro 15 mgs, Dec. 2019 to Mar. 2020 taper to 10mg. Jul 2020 to October 2020 taper to 8.5 ml. Oct 2020 reinstated to 9 ml. Apr 2021 to Jul taper to 7ml. Oct 2021 to Jan 2022 taper to 5.9ml, Mar 5 2022 5.8 ml, Mar 12 5.7ml, Mar 20 5.6ml, Mar 27 5.5ml, April 23 5.4ml, April 30 5.3ml, May 7 5.2ml, Jul 9 2022 5.4ml, Klonopin prn, Allegra 180 for 3 seasons, aspirin 81 mg, plavix , nitroglycerin 0.4 mg prn, 2k mg turmeric Qunol, 4- Trader Joe’s omega 3 -2400 mg, Pepcid 20mg, Prilosec 40 mg, Tylenol arthritis 4 tablets daily, 350mg calm magnesium citrate, melatonin 2.5- 5mg as needed to sleep. Saline spray as needed. Link to comment
Mark Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 On 8/24/2020 at 7:18 PM, Altostrata said: Could you summarize symtoms you had during your withdrawal ? Thanks altostrata 1999-2014 : 20mg Paxil, given for "IBS"... 2014 : Reduction, day 1 20mg, day 2 10mg, day 3, 20mg etc... End 2014-jan/feb 2015 : Reduction again, 10-5-10-5, then 5mg... Then my life turn to hell. April 2015 : Re-start at 20mg. Symptoms not stopped... - June 2015 : Back to 10mg. Not Better.. Sept 2015 : Stopped. 0 Mg. Awful dizziness etc. Symptoms + weight loss - Nov/Dec 2015 : Trial with Escitalopram. Not better... Jan to June 2016 : Back to 20mg Paxil. A little better, Regain weight, but awful symptoms still here... June to sept : 15 mg Paxil : awful / oct to mid nov : 20mg : no improvement mid nov to mid jan 2017 : Cold turkey paxil to 30Mg Duloxetine : Some little improvements in december Mid-jan to mid march 17 : cold turkey of everything... SSRI free... : Hell mid march to may 17 : few week 20 mg paxil : few days better sometimes... / mid may to end may 17 : two weeks 10 mg paxil : hell june to mid-sept 2017 : 5mg prozac : hell july 2019 to now : SSRI FREE : get worse, then slow improvement Link to comment
Moderator Emeritus ChessieCat Posted August 28, 2020 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted August 28, 2020 32 minutes ago, ChessieCat said: How you read Alto's experience? ☼-about-altostrata-withdrawal-syndrome-since-2004 See her topic. * NO LONGER ACTIVE on SA * MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: (6 year taper) 0mg Pristiq on 13th November 2021 ADs since ~1992: 25+ years - 1 unknown, Prozac (muscle weakness), Zoloft; citalopram (pooped out) CTed (very sick for 2.5 wks a few months after); Pristiq: 50mg 2012, 100mg beg 2013 (Serotonin Toxicity) Tapering from Oct 2015 - 13 Nov 2021 LAST DOSE 0.0025mg Post 0 updates start here My tapering program My Intro (goes to tapering graph) VIDEO: Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome and its Management Link to comment
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