Miracle123 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Hi Peachy, Im answer your question regarding my Pms..... Yes....During this time my wirhdrawals really flare up with bad moody and emotional. Im feel so stressful and frustrated with depression. Im remember when my flow almost 3 weeks for first time really scare me a lots.....1 weeks heavy, 2nd weeks light spotting and finally back to heavy......lucky im stop at 4th weeks from heavy to light until stop.Thats why dr say im hormone imbalance and give me hormone pills ( i took it about 1 weeks and stop it . This pills made me more suffering and into dark depression). This is during the early stage of withdrawal when i just stop lexapro for about few months.(For your information....im took lexapro 5mg for almost 9 months since Sept 2017)im fast taper and already off it for almost 19 months. Until today im still feel very bad during PMS but not so worsed and got a bit improvement. At least my cycle more accurate and not fluacture like last time. Im believe AD really made my hormone and CNS mess up all our body part and receptors but need time to fix it back. Always listen to your own body into your tapering. Withdrawals really hard and suffering but you need strong effort and ability get through this. Acceptance, patience and time will telling you. Healing and recovery is really happen. Im can heal , you can too. Wishing you all the best in your tapering journey. Take care.❤️ Best wishes, Miracle Mid December 16 lorezapam 1mg and lexapro 5mg Early April17 updosed lorezapam 2mg, mid Apr17 taper 1.5mg, mid May17-1.25mg, early Jun17- 1mg, mid Jun17-0.75mg, mid July17-0.5mg, End July 17 reduce from 0.4mg, 0.3mg,0.2mg until 0.1mg.lorezapam free on 9 August 2017. Early Mar17 updosed to Lexapro 10mg , end Mar17 reduced 7.5mg, mid May17 reduced 0.5mg, End Aug17 reduced 2.5mg, early Sep17 -1.5mg, Mid Sept-1mg, End Sept - 0.5mg .lexapro free on 26 September 2017 Supplement- omega fish oil and magnesium citrate only. Link to comment
Moderator Emeritus Baxter Posted August 15, 2019 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted August 15, 2019 On 8/6/2019 at 10:23 PM, Peachy said: Did you continue to experience these symptoms after switching your medication? Did it at least reverse some of the award symptoms or poop out? Hi Peachy. The switch to citalopram reduced the poop out symptoms pretty quickly. I have managed to reduce citalopram to 13 mg at this point, and am comfortable. I want to reduce further and may actually reach zero at some point, but I don't have a time table. So yes, I think the switch was an improvement in my quality of life, but I am aware that there is a time limit on how long that will last before poopout, so continuing to taper is in my best interest. The big thing for me is to focus on the positive and to reduce/avoid stress as much as possible. It's easier now for me at this point, because I don't work anymore, I live close to state and town parks where I can wander, and I have the freedom to set my own pace in all things. With very few responsibilities and some interests and friendships that keep me pretty well entertained, I'm doing ok. The 10 - 14 day rough patch that accompanies each drop in dose is really a drag, so I tend to hold for longer than the recommended minimum of one month between drops. My whole life really has calmed down at this point. I'm completely retired, and have no acute money worries. When I started trying to get off of ADs, I was in my mid-50s, working at a crazy stressful job following a couple of years of sketchy employment due to the dot-com bust...Since 2007, things really mellowed out financially and psychologically so I can deal with my anxiety as an artifact of my mind more easily because i don't feel like I'm at risk of losing my home and stability based on my employment. Another thing - I have tinkered pretty extensively with mindfulness meditation and loving kindness meditation. It helps me get some distance on the suffering I generate with my own thoughts. I have some distance on all that now. 1989 - 1992 Parnate* 1992-1998 Paxil - pooped out*, oxazapam, inderal 1998 - 2005 Celexa - pooped out* klonopin, oxazapam, inderal *don't remember doses 2005 -2007 Cymbalta 60 mg oxazapam, inderal, klonopin Started taper in 2007: CT klonopin, oxazapam, inderal (beta blocker) - 2007 Cymbalta 60mg to 30mg 2007 -2010 July 2010 - March 2018 on hiatus due to worsening w/d symptoms, which abated and finally disappeared. Then I stalled for about 5 years because I didn't want to deal with W/D. March 2018 - May 2018 switch from 30mg Cymbalta to 20mg Celexa 19 mg Celexa October 7, 2018 18 mg Celexa November 5, 2018 17 mg Celexa December 2, 2019 16 mg Celexa January 6, 2018 15 mg Celexa March 7, 2019 14 mg Celexa April 24, 2019 13 mg Celexa June 28, 2019 12.8 mg Celexa November 10, 2019 12.4 Celexa August 31, 2020 12.2 Celexa December 28, 2020 12 mg Celexa March 2021 11 mg Celexa February 2023 Link to comment
DavidfromTexas Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Hi, Peachy. Just stumbled onto your thread. Another OCD sufferer here. Wondering how you’re doing, looks like it’s been a while since you last posted. David ANTI-DEPRESSANTS (approximates): 2000--2009/10. Zoloft, mid-high dosage. Alprazolam, as needed, rarely. 2009/10--2016/17. Cymbalta, 90 mg Early 2017--Mid-2017. Cymbalta, 60 mg Mid-2017--Jan 2018. Cymbalta, 30--60 mg, reduced in 30 mg increments w/o physical w/d symptoms, possibly some emotional w/d symptoms. Mar 2018--Early 2019. Back on Cymbalta, fluctuating dosages from 30 to 90mg. Reduced from 60 to 30, then from 30 to 0 again, this time WITH very light physical w/d symptoms. Back to 30mg. Early 2019--April 2019. Cymbalta, 30mg. Down from 30 to 0. Physical w/d symptoms again. Back to 30mg. May 2019. Cymbalta 30 mg. Down to 20 mid-month. Started taking every other day in final week of the month. Jun 2019. Cymbalta 10-ish mg. Started “eyeballing” about half of the beads in the capsule. Taking every other day, then at mid-month every 4 days. July 2, 2019. Took last dose of “eyeballed” 5-ish mg. July 24, 2019. Took first reinstatement dose of 2mg. Dropped down to 1mg (6 beads) the very next day. Aug 6, 2019. Up-dose to 1.33 mg. Aug 30, 2019. Up-dose to 1.5 mg. SUPPLEMENTS Vitamin D3 4,000 IU/day Link to comment
GirlfromD Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Hi Peachy. How are you doing? I hope you are doing well! 😊 2010 - 2015: 50mg Sertraline, 30mg Mirtazapine. 2015 - 2016: Last dose Mirtazapine 28.11.2015 and Sertraline 04.01.2016. (6 months taper) 2016/June: 6 months off. Feeling better but a lot of symptoms, name one and i have it. 2016/Dec: 12 months off. Hit a very bad wave, can't function at this moment, isolate and many intense symptoms. Very intense heart palpitations and very intense anxiety. 2017/June: 18 months off. Things are better, experiencing a lot of flashbacks, walking everyday. 2017/Nov: Things have finally started to improve and i'm now much better than a year ago, starting to feel a lot of improvements, but still symptoms that come in waves and windows. 2018/June: Feeling better. Starting to do some normal things again, but still some improvements needed. All symptoms still there, just less intense. 2018/Oct: Almost 3 years off. Symptoms are milder and more manageable, but lots of anger issues at the moment. Still some depersonalization etc. Heart palpitations almost gone. There's hope. 2021/april: 5 years and 3 months off. Symptoms less intense, but still struggling, still not able to socialize much, very tired, i just want to feel normal again. In a tough and awful wave. Link to comment
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