Manu: questions about tianeptine

[Manu]

Is anyone taking tianeptine here , want to know about this medicine.

[scallywag]

Manu,
 
What dose of desvenlafaxine are you taking ?

 

What symptoms are you having, if any?

 

Links that may be helpful:
Tips for tapering off Pristiq (desvenlafaxine)
Before you begin tapering -- what you need to know.
Why taper by 10% of my dosage?.

We don't have specific topics about tianeptine or dosulepin.

 

Your best way to find people who have posted about either medication is to run a Google or Bing search with the name of the drug and including site:survivingantidepressants.org as a search term to get pages on this site at the top of your search results.

 

Please let us know how we can assist you and how you are doing.

[nz11]

Manu any update...?

[Manu]

Hi There,

 

I am heaving cramps near nose bone on the left side,it extends upto Glabella.

I also feel pain on my head if i press some points gentely , Is it a withdrawl symtoms of SSRI.

I also feel my surrounding  sometime unreal.

 

Any idea about these symtoms ?

 

[Manu]

Thanks for the response CC.

 

After 2017, i had serious sideffects of tianeptine,then my doc moved me to escitalopram 20mg + Clonazepam 0.25mg.

I am in tappering mode now, with escitalopram 10mg + Clonazepam SOS Only since July 2021.

I think i am able to achieve it with the help of Yoga,Paranayam and herbs.

 

I am still havinf heavyhead and picnging sensation in head sometime, fatigues is there as well.

 

My traget is to reduce another 5mg of escitalopram by Dec-Jan 2022.

[ChessieCat]

We need to know information about each of the drugs you have taken.  If we do not have the proper information it makes it very difficult for the staff to make suggestions.

 

For each drug we need to know:

 

• the name of the drug

• the date when you started it

• if you changed the dose, the date of the change and the new dose

• the last dose you took of any drug that you stopped

 

 

 

[Altostrata]

@Manu, we have heard from you in years. Since then, you've gone on a different set of drugs.

 

It appears you reduced escitalopram from 20mg to 10mg last July? How did you feel after the reduction?

 

If you got withdrawal symptoms, did you talk to your doctor about them?  Did you talk to your doctor about these symptoms:

 

3 hours ago, Manu said:

Hi There,

 

I am heaving cramps near nose bone on the left side,it extends upto Glabella.

I also feel pain on my head if i press some points gentely , Is it a withdrawl symtoms of SSRI.

I also feel my surrounding  sometime unreal.

 

Any idea about these symtoms ?

 

Why do you think these are withdrawal symptoms, 3 months later? You might have a sinus infection or other medical problem. This is only a peer support site, we cannot diagnose your pains from afar.

 

If you've already gotten withdrawal symptoms from reducing from 20mg to 10mg, your proposed reduction from 10mg to 5mg is too fast. See Tips for tapering off escitalopram (Lexapro)

[Manu]

18 hours ago, ChessieCat said:

We need to know information about each of the drugs you have taken.  If we do not have the proper information it makes it very difficult for the staff to make suggestions.

 

For each drug we need to know:

 

• the name of the drug

• the date when you started it

• if you changed the dose, the date of the change and the new dose

• the last dose you took of any drug that you stopped

 

 

 

Hi Chessiecat,

 

Here are the details below.

 

I was on Paroxetine 37.5 mg  +Dosulepin 150mg +Clonazepam 1mg ( a day) since 2005 -2011

Replaced Paroxetine 37.5 mg +Dusulepin to Fluoxetine 40mg since 2011-2016

Tianeptine 12.5mg Mor and Eve + Dosulepin 50mg Mor + Eve + Desvenlafaxine extended release from 2016-18 ( Sideffects Fasculation,Twitching) 2016-2018

Started ( escitaloprám 20mg + Clonazepam .25mg Since 2018)Stopped Clonazepam March 2021

Reduced ( escitaloprám 10mg from July 2021 +Clonazepam SOS) 

 

Thanks

Manu

 

[Manu]

Hi Altostar

15 hours ago, Altostrata said:

@Manu, we have heard from you in years. Since then, you've gone on a different set of drugs.

 

It appears you reduced escitalopram from 20mg to 10mg last July? How did you feel after the reduction?

 

If you got withdrawal symptoms, did you talk to your doctor about them?  Did you talk to your doctor about these symptoms:

 

 

Why do you think these are withdrawal symptoms, 3 months later? You might have a sinus infection or other medical problem. This is only a peer support site, we cannot diagnose your pains from afar.

 

If you've already gotten withdrawal symptoms from reducing from 20mg to 10mg, your proposed reduction from 10mg to 5mg is too fast. See Tips for tapering off escitalopram (Lexapro)

Hi Altosrata,

 

I got married in 2018 so i was busy in shaping my career and work.

It took me 5-6 months to reduce escitalopram from 20mg to 10mg last July ( March to July)

Since i was taking some herbs and doing yoga which helped me to reduce escitalopram.

It was 1st time in three year that i manage to travel alone out of city for 15 days in the July month.

But after August my stress level has increased and i feel headahce and pricking sensation in head.

I am taking Magnesium as a suplement as of now.

 

Any other supplement which reduces the withdrwal symptoms of SSRI?

 

 

 

[Altostrata]

We do not know of supplements that will compensate for tapering too fast. How did you decrease from 20mg to 10mg?

 

Your were taking clonazepam every day since 2018? How often are you taking it now? How did you reduce clonazepam dosage?

 

In your signature, please add approximate dates you started each drug.

 

When you went on escitalopram, did you discuss how you would go off escitalopram with the doctor?

[Manu]

@AltostrataI had reduuced escitalopram 10-15% per month.

clonazepam is now SOS as mentioned in the signature.

HAHA, how can you even imgaine a doctor would recommend you to take off medicine, my doctor tried to reduce escitalopram from 20mg to 15mg in one go but i did it gradually and slowly, bez i know my body.

 

I only issue now is the withdrawal sysmtoms like lethargy, headache and bodypains sometimes.

 

 

[Altostrata]

How did you decrease escitalopram? Why do you think your current symptoms are withdrawal symptoms?

[Manu]

@AltostrataAs mentioned above i decreased 10-15% per month. I read it somewhere, i never had these symptoms before.

[Altostrata]

How did you reduce clonazepam dosage from daily to SOS? When did you do this?