Rbvdk Posted July 24, 2022 Author Share Posted July 24, 2022 On 4/17/2022 at 11:36 AM, Driksdog said: Hey! I don't know anything about akathesia. Thanx God I never got it. Covid doesn't worsen the WD symptoms but gave me the covid once for around 10 days. I was afraid of the vaccination too. But what scared me more was longcovid on top of medf......! I hope u can improve soon. I think I am what they so call WD stable. But it isn't really a good life. Happy Easter Hey sorry for the late response, how are you doing now? My akathesia has improved quite a lot, I think I will fully recover some day soon! I hope that gives hope to anyone currently suffering with it. ♡ On 4/17/2022 at 8:51 PM, Altostrata said: Sorry, we don't usually change the Introductions topics titles, or we'd be changing them all constantly. We'd rather spend our time helping people taper. Ah god bless you I get it, I can barely run a Facebook page so can't imagine a whole support site! 1 16.4.14 - 25.4.15 Took Paxil (??mg) - cold turkey. Had random pgad symptoms around this time but not sure when exactly. ?.5.14: Started Citalopram (10mg) / 17.5.14: Quickly upped to 20mg / 9?.15: upped to 30mg. 8.16: Tapered off Citalopram in less than 2 weeks / 9.16: straight back on 20mg for just a week then stopped cold turkey. 11.16 Very mild pgad, PN symptoms and other withdrawals started. 7.12.16: Took Amitriptyline 10mg for just 2 days then stopped cold turkey. 14.12.16: reinstated 5mg of Citalopram / 1?.16: 10mg Citalopram / ?.16: 20mg Citalopram. 3.17 (6 months since withdrawing) pgad hit. 8.2.18: 15mg Citalopram / 8.3.18: 10mg / 8.4.18: 5mg / 12?.5.18: 2.5mg / 19.5.18: 0mg. pgad worsened almost instantly from first tapper, all sorts of PN symptoms, earworm, tinnitus, other things, coming and going until late 9.18 (4 months since 0mg) where it all got SO MUCH worse for 1.11 years (with windows and waves). 1.9.20: 99% healed ❤️ 31.5.21: Smoked weed 5 out of 9 days. Pgad and other old withdrawals came back, plus developed akathesia & fibromyalgia. 7.22: Steadily recovering again ❤ 2.23: Acute withdrawals coming back, no apparent reason. Link to comment
Driksdog Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Hey! Good to hear u getting better. I still feel insanely weird and I started to forget about recovery. I simply don't believe it. For me it's an heavy brain disorder. I got burning sensation at neck and back, headaches, headpressure, Dizziness, weakness, DP, aphaty..... Honestly I start to believe that for some ppl it's over after meddamage. Hope the best for u. Dog 09/2018 Quetiapin 100 mg 8 weeks 10/2018 Prozac 20 mg 2 weeks 05/2019 - 10/2019 abilify 2.5 mg 12/2019-03/2020 Moclobemid 600 01/2020 - 04/2020 Lithium 1125 03/2020 8 ketamin injections 05/2020 drug free 11/2020 lots of improvements 12/2020 cigs crash, huge setback 07/2021 a bit better but far from my state in autumn 2020 01/2024 I crashed again 2022. I live an disabled life and start to think it's forever Link to comment
Administrator Altostrata Posted July 24, 2022 Administrator Share Posted July 24, 2022 16 hours ago, Rbvdk said: My akathesia has improved quite a lot, I think I will fully recover some day soon! Good to hear! What are your residual symptoms? 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
Rbvdk Posted July 25, 2022 Author Share Posted July 25, 2022 21 hours ago, Driksdog said: Hey! Good to hear u getting better. I still feel insanely weird and I started to forget about recovery. I simply don't believe it. For me it's an heavy brain disorder. I got burning sensation at neck and back, headaches, headpressure, Dizziness, weakness, DP, aphaty..... Honestly I start to believe that for some ppl it's over after meddamage. Hope the best for u. Dog I'm so sorry to hear this, I had some of these symptoms too but they're much milder now. Everyone heals differently, my first withdrawals felt like there was no progress or windows until they suddenly healed almost completely on the 2 year mark. I really hope the best for you too, and I'm here if you need to talk. 7 hours ago, Altostrata said: Good to hear! What are your residual symptoms? Thanks! With the akathesia, it mostly only comes out if there's a big trigger (I stayed in the sun for too long last week and somehow that set it off badly). But otherwise I'm so much better, I can do things now I couldn't even dream of when it was at it's worse. I'm getting symptoms of fibromyalgia though, I mention that because I've seen on akathesia groups that there's a connection between the 2 sometimes, I think it's a residual thing? My pgad is almost as healed as it was before the weed, I'm hoping one day it'll be fully healed, but I'm functional now at least . I still have chronic earworm (music in my head 24/7) and slight tinnitus, I believe these will heal too since they were just starting to get windows before the weed. Overall I feel great, I'm functional and hopeful again so yay! 2 16.4.14 - 25.4.15 Took Paxil (??mg) - cold turkey. Had random pgad symptoms around this time but not sure when exactly. ?.5.14: Started Citalopram (10mg) / 17.5.14: Quickly upped to 20mg / 9?.15: upped to 30mg. 8.16: Tapered off Citalopram in less than 2 weeks / 9.16: straight back on 20mg for just a week then stopped cold turkey. 11.16 Very mild pgad, PN symptoms and other withdrawals started. 7.12.16: Took Amitriptyline 10mg for just 2 days then stopped cold turkey. 14.12.16: reinstated 5mg of Citalopram / 1?.16: 10mg Citalopram / ?.16: 20mg Citalopram. 3.17 (6 months since withdrawing) pgad hit. 8.2.18: 15mg Citalopram / 8.3.18: 10mg / 8.4.18: 5mg / 12?.5.18: 2.5mg / 19.5.18: 0mg. pgad worsened almost instantly from first tapper, all sorts of PN symptoms, earworm, tinnitus, other things, coming and going until late 9.18 (4 months since 0mg) where it all got SO MUCH worse for 1.11 years (with windows and waves). 1.9.20: 99% healed ❤️ 31.5.21: Smoked weed 5 out of 9 days. Pgad and other old withdrawals came back, plus developed akathesia & fibromyalgia. 7.22: Steadily recovering again ❤ 2.23: Acute withdrawals coming back, no apparent reason. Link to comment
Administrator Altostrata Posted July 26, 2022 Administrator Share Posted July 26, 2022 Because you're feeling better, I added our cheerful "here comes the sun" symbol ☼ to the title of your Intro topic, to show you're recovering. Please continue to let us know how you're doing. I hope you will add your story to our Recovery Success Stories eventually! Please see this topic: How to write your success story 1 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
Rbvdk Posted July 26, 2022 Author Share Posted July 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Altostrata said: Because you're feeling better, I added our cheerful "here comes the sun" symbol ☼ to the title of your Intro topic, to show you're recovering. Please continue to let us know how you're doing. I hope you will add your story to our Recovery Success Stories eventually! Please see this topic: How to write your success story It's so nice to see that sun here, thank you! I really never believed I'd ever start to recover, it's been such a confusing journey so I'm happy to give hope to others who have been through the same. I'm definitely excited for the day I can add to the success stories! 😊 1 16.4.14 - 25.4.15 Took Paxil (??mg) - cold turkey. Had random pgad symptoms around this time but not sure when exactly. ?.5.14: Started Citalopram (10mg) / 17.5.14: Quickly upped to 20mg / 9?.15: upped to 30mg. 8.16: Tapered off Citalopram in less than 2 weeks / 9.16: straight back on 20mg for just a week then stopped cold turkey. 11.16 Very mild pgad, PN symptoms and other withdrawals started. 7.12.16: Took Amitriptyline 10mg for just 2 days then stopped cold turkey. 14.12.16: reinstated 5mg of Citalopram / 1?.16: 10mg Citalopram / ?.16: 20mg Citalopram. 3.17 (6 months since withdrawing) pgad hit. 8.2.18: 15mg Citalopram / 8.3.18: 10mg / 8.4.18: 5mg / 12?.5.18: 2.5mg / 19.5.18: 0mg. pgad worsened almost instantly from first tapper, all sorts of PN symptoms, earworm, tinnitus, other things, coming and going until late 9.18 (4 months since 0mg) where it all got SO MUCH worse for 1.11 years (with windows and waves). 1.9.20: 99% healed ❤️ 31.5.21: Smoked weed 5 out of 9 days. Pgad and other old withdrawals came back, plus developed akathesia & fibromyalgia. 7.22: Steadily recovering again ❤ 2.23: Acute withdrawals coming back, no apparent reason. Link to comment
Rbvdk Posted August 16, 2022 Author Share Posted August 16, 2022 I found out yesterday one of the symptoms I assumed was part of akathesia, is actually anhedonia (sudden emotional death). Although I also get another similar symptom which I'm unsure if it's a part of it, aka or even fibromyalgia, where my brain has a sensation of dark cotton or fog, and it's yawning and feeling like an overly exhausted muscle. It's helpful to know about the anhedonia because now I see a pattern where it's come on after doing a lot of dopamine-inducing activities (I've been working hard on a ton of things to get some extra money). I'm going to try meditation and simple scheduling so I limit the about of activities I do, hopefully it should help. 16.4.14 - 25.4.15 Took Paxil (??mg) - cold turkey. Had random pgad symptoms around this time but not sure when exactly. ?.5.14: Started Citalopram (10mg) / 17.5.14: Quickly upped to 20mg / 9?.15: upped to 30mg. 8.16: Tapered off Citalopram in less than 2 weeks / 9.16: straight back on 20mg for just a week then stopped cold turkey. 11.16 Very mild pgad, PN symptoms and other withdrawals started. 7.12.16: Took Amitriptyline 10mg for just 2 days then stopped cold turkey. 14.12.16: reinstated 5mg of Citalopram / 1?.16: 10mg Citalopram / ?.16: 20mg Citalopram. 3.17 (6 months since withdrawing) pgad hit. 8.2.18: 15mg Citalopram / 8.3.18: 10mg / 8.4.18: 5mg / 12?.5.18: 2.5mg / 19.5.18: 0mg. pgad worsened almost instantly from first tapper, all sorts of PN symptoms, earworm, tinnitus, other things, coming and going until late 9.18 (4 months since 0mg) where it all got SO MUCH worse for 1.11 years (with windows and waves). 1.9.20: 99% healed ❤️ 31.5.21: Smoked weed 5 out of 9 days. Pgad and other old withdrawals came back, plus developed akathesia & fibromyalgia. 7.22: Steadily recovering again ❤ 2.23: Acute withdrawals coming back, no apparent reason. Link to comment
Rbvdk Posted November 4, 2022 Author Share Posted November 4, 2022 I tried a small bit of alcohol recently and now I'm getting hypnic jerks as I fall asleep as well as a return of my dyskinesia (and/or dystonia(?)), my whole body is shaking and I'll get build of pressure somewhere before it suddenly jerks. I'm somewhat confident it'll calm down in time since I've had all this before and it eventually went away. I'm also under A LOT of stress this past month which probably contributes. But yee.. I wasn't expecting such a small bit of alcohol to do this - I didn't even feel any of the alcohol effects! I definitely don't reccomend. Sadly I'm struggling a lot of with the cravings. Before I smoked the weed that caused this, I was addicted to alcohol (probably contributed to the damage from weed) and I had to stop cold turkey. It's definitely for the best, like a blessing in disguise lol but damn I wish it'd get easier already. 16.4.14 - 25.4.15 Took Paxil (??mg) - cold turkey. Had random pgad symptoms around this time but not sure when exactly. ?.5.14: Started Citalopram (10mg) / 17.5.14: Quickly upped to 20mg / 9?.15: upped to 30mg. 8.16: Tapered off Citalopram in less than 2 weeks / 9.16: straight back on 20mg for just a week then stopped cold turkey. 11.16 Very mild pgad, PN symptoms and other withdrawals started. 7.12.16: Took Amitriptyline 10mg for just 2 days then stopped cold turkey. 14.12.16: reinstated 5mg of Citalopram / 1?.16: 10mg Citalopram / ?.16: 20mg Citalopram. 3.17 (6 months since withdrawing) pgad hit. 8.2.18: 15mg Citalopram / 8.3.18: 10mg / 8.4.18: 5mg / 12?.5.18: 2.5mg / 19.5.18: 0mg. pgad worsened almost instantly from first tapper, all sorts of PN symptoms, earworm, tinnitus, other things, coming and going until late 9.18 (4 months since 0mg) where it all got SO MUCH worse for 1.11 years (with windows and waves). 1.9.20: 99% healed ❤️ 31.5.21: Smoked weed 5 out of 9 days. Pgad and other old withdrawals came back, plus developed akathesia & fibromyalgia. 7.22: Steadily recovering again ❤ 2.23: Acute withdrawals coming back, no apparent reason. Link to comment
Driksdog Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Hey! Exactly what I experienced. But I was able to get drunk 8 times before I crashed. I learned the lesson finally but I am still terrible. Wish u the best. Greetings dog 09/2018 Quetiapin 100 mg 8 weeks 10/2018 Prozac 20 mg 2 weeks 05/2019 - 10/2019 abilify 2.5 mg 12/2019-03/2020 Moclobemid 600 01/2020 - 04/2020 Lithium 1125 03/2020 8 ketamin injections 05/2020 drug free 11/2020 lots of improvements 12/2020 cigs crash, huge setback 07/2021 a bit better but far from my state in autumn 2020 01/2024 I crashed again 2022. I live an disabled life and start to think it's forever Link to comment
Elaine5 Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 How are you doing? I had pssd and anhedonia before them developed insomnia n Akathisia recently either from a stupid diet or trying more meds, or both. Any updates regarding Akathisia and anhedonia? I can go from feeling nothing to feeling a lot, to having intense aka, to being calm all in the same day. It’s very weird and exhausting. 1 Aug 2020 - Feb 2022 on and off Lexapro 5 and 10mg, Rapid taper Nov 2021 - May 2022 on off Wellbutrin 100mg, 150mg, 75mg CT clindamycin cycle and also Plan B bc 1x Fall 2020- June 2022 - Xanax .5 PRN usually 4x a week, CT June 2022 - Z pack, Buspar 7.5 3 days September 20-24th - low tryptophan diet and 20-30g beef gelatin powder Oct 3- 16 - Xanax .5 for sleep each pm, 1 mg Ativan in ER, .25 Xanax —> .125–>0 Oct 14-17Trazadone 50/75, Lunesta 3mg Oct 24- start Belsomra, 4 days to20mg Nov 3-5 10mg Belsomra and 300mg Gabapentin Oct 13-Dec 1 Buspar 7.5 2x/day rapid taper over 2 weeks due to ADR Recent: Belsomra 20mg since 10/23/2022 to 15mg mid December for 2 nights —> 20mg —> 15 mg since 12/22/2022 —>14 mg compounded 02/11/2023 —> 15 mg 2/13 —> 10mg 2/22 —> 5mg 3/1 —> 0mg 3/8/2023 Current: Propanolol 20mg AM, 10mg 4pm, 20mg PM since 11/30/2022 Link to comment
Rbvdk Posted February 24, 2023 Author Share Posted February 24, 2023 On 12/11/2022 at 11:43 PM, ElaineBenes5 said: How are you doing? I had pssd and anhedonia before them developed insomnia n Akathisia recently either from a stupid diet or trying more meds, or both. Any updates regarding Akathisia and anhedonia? I can go from feeling nothing to feeling a lot, to having intense aka, to being calm all in the same day. It’s very weird and exhausting. Sorry for the late reply, my anhedonia seems a lot better now. I mainly just get mildish bouts of depression throughout the day now. And my akathisia has improved massively to almost non-existant (except recently which I'm about to make an update post on). Im sorry to hear you're struggling, it really is exhausting. Are you doing any better now? 16.4.14 - 25.4.15 Took Paxil (??mg) - cold turkey. Had random pgad symptoms around this time but not sure when exactly. ?.5.14: Started Citalopram (10mg) / 17.5.14: Quickly upped to 20mg / 9?.15: upped to 30mg. 8.16: Tapered off Citalopram in less than 2 weeks / 9.16: straight back on 20mg for just a week then stopped cold turkey. 11.16 Very mild pgad, PN symptoms and other withdrawals started. 7.12.16: Took Amitriptyline 10mg for just 2 days then stopped cold turkey. 14.12.16: reinstated 5mg of Citalopram / 1?.16: 10mg Citalopram / ?.16: 20mg Citalopram. 3.17 (6 months since withdrawing) pgad hit. 8.2.18: 15mg Citalopram / 8.3.18: 10mg / 8.4.18: 5mg / 12?.5.18: 2.5mg / 19.5.18: 0mg. pgad worsened almost instantly from first tapper, all sorts of PN symptoms, earworm, tinnitus, other things, coming and going until late 9.18 (4 months since 0mg) where it all got SO MUCH worse for 1.11 years (with windows and waves). 1.9.20: 99% healed ❤️ 31.5.21: Smoked weed 5 out of 9 days. Pgad and other old withdrawals came back, plus developed akathesia & fibromyalgia. 7.22: Steadily recovering again ❤ 2.23: Acute withdrawals coming back, no apparent reason. Link to comment
Rbvdk Posted February 24, 2023 Author Share Posted February 24, 2023 Please can anyone help me with this? I don't know what has caused this sudden flare up. I'm getting symptoms of my usual acute withdrawals, mainly the pudendal neuralgia ones (pgad, bad pain in butt, pins and needles etc) and digestion (yellow stools). I'm also getting very slight akathisia (or dyskinesia) again where my muscles all over my body randomly tense and untense. It's as if I've withdrawn from a drug again, it's very confusing. The only factors I can think of is these: - recently spray painted something with primer, without wearing proper respitory protection. - had a uti (and took cystitis relief saches (not antibiotics) for it) - eating probiotic yoghurt every day (to keep the uti away) - taking d-mannos every day for same reason - also drinking lots of cranberry juice (which causes me a lot of stomach acid) for same reason - had massive amount of stress recently/currently Please any ideas would be highly appreciated! ♡ 16.4.14 - 25.4.15 Took Paxil (??mg) - cold turkey. Had random pgad symptoms around this time but not sure when exactly. ?.5.14: Started Citalopram (10mg) / 17.5.14: Quickly upped to 20mg / 9?.15: upped to 30mg. 8.16: Tapered off Citalopram in less than 2 weeks / 9.16: straight back on 20mg for just a week then stopped cold turkey. 11.16 Very mild pgad, PN symptoms and other withdrawals started. 7.12.16: Took Amitriptyline 10mg for just 2 days then stopped cold turkey. 14.12.16: reinstated 5mg of Citalopram / 1?.16: 10mg Citalopram / ?.16: 20mg Citalopram. 3.17 (6 months since withdrawing) pgad hit. 8.2.18: 15mg Citalopram / 8.3.18: 10mg / 8.4.18: 5mg / 12?.5.18: 2.5mg / 19.5.18: 0mg. pgad worsened almost instantly from first tapper, all sorts of PN symptoms, earworm, tinnitus, other things, coming and going until late 9.18 (4 months since 0mg) where it all got SO MUCH worse for 1.11 years (with windows and waves). 1.9.20: 99% healed ❤️ 31.5.21: Smoked weed 5 out of 9 days. Pgad and other old withdrawals came back, plus developed akathesia & fibromyalgia. 7.22: Steadily recovering again ❤ 2.23: Acute withdrawals coming back, no apparent reason. Link to comment
Rbvdk Posted February 26, 2023 Author Share Posted February 26, 2023 Pretty much all my acute withdrawals have come back over this week now, I don't know why. But I'm not gonna be updating here on this site any more. Thank you to all the kind people who have helped me here over the years. Feel free to dm me, I'll try and check as often as I remember. Take care all. ♡ 16.4.14 - 25.4.15 Took Paxil (??mg) - cold turkey. Had random pgad symptoms around this time but not sure when exactly. ?.5.14: Started Citalopram (10mg) / 17.5.14: Quickly upped to 20mg / 9?.15: upped to 30mg. 8.16: Tapered off Citalopram in less than 2 weeks / 9.16: straight back on 20mg for just a week then stopped cold turkey. 11.16 Very mild pgad, PN symptoms and other withdrawals started. 7.12.16: Took Amitriptyline 10mg for just 2 days then stopped cold turkey. 14.12.16: reinstated 5mg of Citalopram / 1?.16: 10mg Citalopram / ?.16: 20mg Citalopram. 3.17 (6 months since withdrawing) pgad hit. 8.2.18: 15mg Citalopram / 8.3.18: 10mg / 8.4.18: 5mg / 12?.5.18: 2.5mg / 19.5.18: 0mg. pgad worsened almost instantly from first tapper, all sorts of PN symptoms, earworm, tinnitus, other things, coming and going until late 9.18 (4 months since 0mg) where it all got SO MUCH worse for 1.11 years (with windows and waves). 1.9.20: 99% healed ❤️ 31.5.21: Smoked weed 5 out of 9 days. Pgad and other old withdrawals came back, plus developed akathesia & fibromyalgia. 7.22: Steadily recovering again ❤ 2.23: Acute withdrawals coming back, no apparent reason. Link to comment
Driksdog Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Hey! I can't really help u. It's frustrating and horrible u switched back. Maybe it was ur stress? Idk. I want to say I am with u as I read about ur "crash". Let's hope it's just a wave for short time. Greetings 09/2018 Quetiapin 100 mg 8 weeks 10/2018 Prozac 20 mg 2 weeks 05/2019 - 10/2019 abilify 2.5 mg 12/2019-03/2020 Moclobemid 600 01/2020 - 04/2020 Lithium 1125 03/2020 8 ketamin injections 05/2020 drug free 11/2020 lots of improvements 12/2020 cigs crash, huge setback 07/2021 a bit better but far from my state in autumn 2020 01/2024 I crashed again 2022. I live an disabled life and start to think it's forever Link to comment
Lexkills Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 On 2/24/2023 at 11:11 PM, Rbvdk said: The only factors I can think of is these: - recently spray painted something with primer, without wearing proper respitory protection Are you out of your mind ? Primer has a lot of chemicals that's why you got WD. It just a wave fight it and come back let me know your fight. 2018 10mg Escitalopram 2019 5mg Escitalopram Taper over 2 years by 5% drop for every four weeks. Finally off Escitalopram in mid 2021 Aug 2021 - Akathisia from Weed Dec 2021 Propranolol 10mg July 2022 Propranolol 5mg Still on Propranolol 5mg Supplements. Magnesium Complex, Vit C 500mg Daily at night. Link to comment
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