Friday Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Hello fellow fighters, Long story short, - I've been on paroxetine for 20 years, 60 mg as highest dose and now tapering from around 40 mg since 2009 and it has been an extremely hard journey. There have been some time consuming increases after too big decreases based on advice from MD. Now since 2 years I have found the rate and time between reductions and I am currently at 5,6 mg. The 3-4 reinstatements have resulted in at least two lost years of time and the whole process has resluted in a whole new definition of persistance/tolerance. My family has been fantastic and supportive. My employer has also been very tolerant until now (letting me work from home for a long time) but recently this has shifted and my employer wants me/or more precisely a third party to prove that paroxetine wd can take this long time. Employer has turned to occupational health to get comments on my wd and they state that every MD knows that SSRI wd takes a few weeks and NEVER months or years. I am now faced with ideas of being dishonest and even having some kind of diagnose that they want to discover with the help of a psychiatrist, - since wd never takes longer than a few weeks ... My prescribing MD just retired and does not answer contact attempts. I am so close to get away from this crazy medication but also suddenly obviously close to get in trouble with my employer. I feel life coming back but at the same time I am facing life shrinking in unemployment (maybe not so easy to get a new job during wd, -I suppose that I have 10-14 months left in wd). The price payed for me and my family and many other other aspects has been very high. I would need an objective source to relate to and show my employer and occupational health. Most of the doctors here read the unaware of wd in general and paroxetine in particular and only read what is served by official clinical tests financed by producers. Any support is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. /Fredag Link to comment
Moderator Emeritus ChessieCat Posted March 9, 2016 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted March 9, 2016 Hi Friday/Fredag, Welcome to SA. This post will be moved and be made into your Intro Topic (it will get more responses). Once this is done if you click Follow This Topic you will be notified when someone replies. You can ask questions and use your Intro/Update topic as a journal of your progress. It will help if you would put your drug history (dates, ALL drug/s, doses, how you decreased/increased) in your signature. How put your Withdrawal History in Signature What withdrawal symptoms are you currently having? I would need an objective source to relate to and show my employer and occupational health. Most of the doctors here read the unaware of wd in general and paroxetine in particular and only read what is served by official clinical tests financed by producers. I'm sure other members will offer suggestions about this. Member NZ11 has read many books, so he'll probably drop in and give you his thoughts on which books might help. And congratulations on getting to 5,6 mg. CC * 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
Administrator Altostrata Posted March 9, 2016 Administrator Share Posted March 9, 2016 Welcome, Friday. A quick scan of the pinned topics at the top of the Tapering forum reveals Why taper by 10% of my dosage? As withdrawal syndrome is not recognized by many doctors, there are not a lot of journal articles about how to taper to avoid it. This is not medical advice. Discuss any decisions about your medical care with a knowledgeable medical practitioner. "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has surpassed our humanity." -- Albert Einstein All postings © copyrighted. Link to comment
nz11 Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 they state that every MD knows that SSRI wd takes a few weeks and NEVER months or years. This is not true http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/6383-dr-yolande-lucire-adverse-reactions-to-psychiatric-drugs/?p=209645 "Most of those who had stopped taking antidepressants made a full but slow recovery from akathisia; some developed chronic, and some developed delayed post withdrawal akathisia weeks and months after stopping the medicines and withdrawal akathisia which went on for years was the hardest to manage and reverse. Many remained physically disabled and felt weak and remained on disability support. Suicidal and homicidal ideation both sometimes persisted for months after withdrawal. When a subject understood its cause and saw that it was decreasing in intensity, it was less dangerous and easier to tolerate. Sometimes suicidality developed for the first time when a dose was missed and when the subject tried to stop taking the drugs." also http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/7571-☼-nz11-climbs-onboard/?p=124382 Thought for the day: Lets stand up, and let’s speak out , together. G Olsen We have until the 14th. Feb 2018. URGENT REQUEST Please consider submitting for the petition on Prescribed Drug Dependence and Withdrawal currently awaiting its third consideration at the Scottish Parliament. You don't even have to be from Scotland. By clicking on the link below you can read some of the previous submissions but be warned many of them are quite harrowing. http://www.parliament.scot/GettingInvolved/Petitions/PE01651 Please tell them about your problems taking and withdrawing from antidepressants and/or benzos. Send by email to petitions@parliament.scot and quote PE01651 in the subject heading. Keep to a maximum of 3 sides of A4 and you can't name for legal reasons any doctor you have consulted. Tell them if you wish to remain anonymous. We need the numbers to help convince the committee members we are not isolated cases. You have until mid February. Thank you Recovering paxil addict None of the published articles shed light on what ssri's ... actually do or what their hazards might be. Healy 2013. This is so true, with anything you get on these drugs, dependance, tapering, withdrawal symptoms, side effects, just silent. And if there is something mentioned then their is a serious disconnect between what is said and reality! "Every time I read of a multi-person shooting, I always presume that person had just started a SSRI or had just stopped." Dr Mosher. Me too! Over two decades later, the number of antidepressant prescriptions a year is slightly more than the number of people in the Western world. Most (nine out of 10) prescriptions are for patients who faced difficulties on stopping, equating to about a tenth of the population. These patients are often advised to continue treatment because their difficulties indicate they need ongoing treatment, just as a person with diabetes needs insulin. Healy 2015 I believe the ssri era will soon stand as one of the most shameful in the history of medicine. Healy 2015 Let people help people ... in a natural, kind, non-addictive (and non-big pharma) way. J Broadley 2017 Link to comment
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