PeerCBH: second try discontinuing Paxil

[PeerCBH]

9 hours ago, Onmyway said:

Hi @PeerCBH

I use a generic syringe to dilute my medicine 1:1200. I first put 120 ml of water in a jar.  Then take 0.1ml of my medicine and deposit it into the receptacle (jar) where i already have the 1200ml water and will make the dilution.  Then take water from the 1:1200 solution in the medicine syringe and put it back into the solution. I draw water in and out a few times more to 'wash out' the syringe of any residue.  I draw water from the solution and deposit it back into the solution so it all goes into the solution.  

 

This is good enough.  I keep my two syringes the same until they're unusable.  The goal is not perfection but consistency. 

 

I've heard people who had access to lab equipment use graduated scientific pipettes. But syringes are good enough.

 

The key is not to turn this into something to obsess about as our minds are easy to hijack in this process.

 

OMW

This is most useful, thank you so much! At some point I am most certainly going to need to dilute my solution. 

Especially the last part. I do be obsessing sometimes

[Onmyway]

On 4/4/2023 at 6:54 PM, PeerCBH said:

This is most useful, thank you so much! At some point I am most certainly going to need to dilute my solution. 

Especially the last part. I do be obsessing sometimes

Hi @PeerCBH, 

 

there is a book I read recently - Needing to Know for Sure (by Seif and Winston) about OCD anxiety - it's amazing in how it breaks down the process. It calls the minds of some people 'sticky' where obsessions can sort of take seed and grow. I too have a sticky mind sometimes so I understand completely. I would highly recommend reading that book. Even if you didn't have a sticky mind prior to WD, withdrawal creates it for many people. 

 

Reassurance seeking is the beast that feeds this obsession loop and I do that very often in my case by reading incessantly about things. I highly recommend practicing mindfulness.

 

You might find this useful -  it's a free MBSR course. I took this course in person many years ago and it helped reduce  quite significantly my asthma attacks of all things. 

https://palousemindfulness.com/

 

See if you like it. 

OMW

Edited March 21 by Onmyway
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[PeerCBH]

Hi,

I've been able to taper my prozac more. I stay off here because I tend to seek reassurance too much which gets in the way of my coping with my anxiety.

I did have a question. So I've arrived at a comfortable taper (2-4% is my range, 4 being the max I can tolerate) now that I'm below saturation. I was tapering by 2% as I had school and didn't want to destabilize myself. Nice and slow. While milder, prozac withdrawal drags on longer than paxil. Generally 3 months to stabilize. I tapered by 2 and waited about 2 months. Not quite stable and I took another 2% off. This sent me into a withdrawal frenzy. For future reference, will tapering while not fully stable create a sort of compounding effect concerning symptoms? That's really what it felt like. Things death spiraled very quickly. Too much too fast. Oops. I updosed and I'm feeling okay. Will hold here. 

Thank you,

After this question, I'll duck out for awhile as I don't want to get into a pattern of reassurance seeking.