Djibril: derealization escitalopram

[Djibril]

No i don't taked benzo since july 2017. Now i Take amitriptyline and escitalopram nothing else.

[Carmie]

Okay thanks Djibril, 

 

Please continue to let me know how you’re doing💚

[Djibril]

if I try to stay at 3.80 and go beyond me, can the symptoms subside? I mean does my brain get used to it?

[Carmie]

Hi Djibril, 

 

I answered you in your message to me. It’s up to you if you decide to stay on 3.80mg. You will eventually stabilise no matter what you do, but when we taper too quickly the withdrawals can last longer. I answered more thoroughly to you in my message. 

 

Could you please just ask your questions on the thread here. Thank you. No need to message as well, as I will check your thread when I’m able to. 

 

Feel free to ask ask more questions.

 

Good night from Australia😴😁

[Djibril]

Excuse me just a question

[Djibril]

If i taked 3 dropps this morning when i restarted 4 dropps ? Tomorow ?

[Carmie]

Hi Djibril, 

 

Yes, if you’ve only been on 3.80mg for a couple of days you can go back to 4mg today. It might take you a number of months to stabilise, especially seeing you weren’t stable when you tapered. As Gridley had mentioned, it would have been wise to hold for a couple of months Please stop making so many changes, you will just continue to destabilise yourself if you keep tapering too quickly. 

 

We can’t avoid the symptoms of withdrawals, going through a windows and waves pattern is how we heal. Sometimes the symptoms are worse than at other times. This is our brain healing. Panicking about symptoms can just make them worse, the stress can ramp up the symptoms.

 

I’m afraid there is no way of speeding up the recovery process. We just have to have a lot of patience. It can take many years. I’ve been tapering my medication for many, many years, I can’t even remember how long. I’ve got many more years to go. I won’t be jumping off until I’m at least down to 0.0something. My brain is so destabilised from all the medications that I feel every small drop. I am tapering by just under 4% at the moment. 

 

It is a good idea to find some good distractions when going through waves. We can’t stop them, so we need to learn to cope with them. I do arts and crafts, DVD marathons, go out in nature, photography, listen to music etc. 

 

As regards your derealisation, we don’t know when it will go away. Panicking about it won’t make it go away, I’m sorry. It will disappear one day, but we don’t know when. Maybe when the dosage is lower, maybe once you’re off the medication, or maybe even a while after you’re off the medication. We can’t speed up the healing process. 

 

I live with depersonalisation too. I’ve had it for over two decades because of an illness I have, chronic fatigue syndrome. But because yours is related to the withdrawals it will go away once your brain reaches equilibrium again. 

 

Take care, sending hugs🤗

[Djibril]

Hello, at first, before the medication it was only mild. And then I had a baby and I had great anxieties that happened. so I wanted to resume the escitalopram that I had already taken a few years ago and that I had managed to stop suddenly. but when I started this one I had the worst anxieties that I have ever had. and because I have my derealization which has amplified, I decided to decrease it since but each decrease even very small accentuates my deratization, with each drop it is worse. What is going on ? please help me, i have two children and it is hard to take care of my baby.i'm trench and i use Google translate

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[delsol]

Hi -- I can so much relate to this! The derealization has been the worst part lately, and it got more noticeable each time I dropped down in dose. I am writing just to let you know there are others out there, like myself, who deal with awful derealization. I don't have many solutions to offer except to please keep reaching out, as you are doing. Thank you for sharing this part of your story. 

[Djibril]

thanks for posting, even if you didn't give me a solution, it helps me. I wish you the best

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[Altostrata]

@Djibril, I moved your post here.

 

What drug are you tapering? If you're getting withdrawal symptoms, I would stop tapering for a while, let your nervous system settle down.

 

What drug changes have you made in the last 3 months?

 

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