Lolita: Prozac withdrawal

[Lolita]

28 minutes ago, ChessieCat said:

 

Acupuncture - see Posts #6 & #8 (not detox or stimulation)

 

Thanks ChessieCat!

 

I have an amazing acupuncturist who really has health in her mind.

She knows me very well and never make a treatment that can increase my anxiety. 

Since its the first time I will a  treatment without taking an antidepressant, Im curious if the body respond better with no chemicals in it.🤔🤔

Anyway, I already told her I want a treatment for my anxiety/depression mood and sleep. I told her also about my digestion and extrasystole. 

I might incorporate those treatments once a week to help.

 

Today I wrote a lot. I started to write a few days ago. When I was young and before I had kids, I use to write all the time....thoughts, quotes, what is going on my mind, poems, ... its sometime I want to reintroduce to my life.

 

I found a bullet calendar that I will try to fill with objectifs to make myself a new way of living, new routines and better healthy moves ( food, exercise, meditation,...) I have a lot of fatigue and brain fog and really unmotivate since a long time but maybe by going one step at a time in incorporate new objectives in my life, it will become my new lifestyle mode...for the better.

 

Today I was reading that healing having also about making changes. And adopting new lifestyle changes. Nothing new here but today, it resonate something in me more than usually.

If we stop meds without making those changes, then its not a winning combination.

[Lolita]

Wake up this morning again with this inner vibration...a bit shaky inside. 

My upper body, like arms back and chest area feel so sensitive, soar and it vibrates a lot.

Nausea every morning also.

Drank water and manage eat a banana.

So tired and some palpitations and extrasystoles. 

By the way, I felt exatcly the same at night and until I fall asleep since a few nights.

I wonder if I have a heart problem or something else.

 

It might be cortisol/adrenal relate also or else.

 

No med or supplement intake in am.

[Lolita]

Since I felt so bad on zoloft, I wonder if reinstating would help?

[Lolita]

If someone read this...please respond....Im so scared...feel like Im dying! I feel awful.

Even my head is shaking. Heart is pounding bad and Im soo tired.

[Altostrata]

22 hours ago, Lolita said:

Hi Alto!

 

I do understand that a lot of changes have been made...sadly!

But I told previously that in mid july my doctor stop my prozac and switch to zoloft which was her last drug attempt with me like she said. She switched saying if I don't, she would not endorse my "off work" papers that I need for my insurance to pay me.

I asked another doctor but this one told me that I was followed by a generalist and psychiatrist and they can see it in the system (Quebec) and it wont be accepted. 

 

So Im off zoloft since 8 days.

My husband say that I dont look worse than I was on meds since the last year. Of course, I have symptoms (new ones and some the same).

 

Extrasystole are new

Insomnia...falling asleep late

Nausea and digest issues...I had that on zoloft also.

Jitters and inside vibrations at night and when I wake up

Low mood, crying, feeling low and bouts of intrusives/negative thoughts

A bit dizzy since 2 days....but it might be from poor sleep and not eating a lot

 

I do write my symptoms in my journal at home. As you advise me... But sometimes, I have to let go a bit as I focus a lot on symptoms. 

 

I will see my acupuncturist tomorrow.

 

I try to write a lot what it going on in my mind and work on negative thoughts.

 

 

What do you mean by heart pounding? If it's very hard and continual, please go to the emergency room, they will make a recording of it and probably give you a benzo to calm it down.

 

If the palpitations and irregular heartbeat started after you quit Zoloft, most likely a small reinstatement, such as 5mg, is in order. You may have felt bad on it because you were taking too much.

 

They could also be from your inconsistent benzo dosing.

 

I am sorry your doctor is so poorly informed. You are going to have to make it clear what you want instead of asking your doctor for answers.

 

I am still looking for your daily drug and symptom notes.

[Lolita]

Thanks Alto!

 

I have had my acupuncture this morning. She is amazing with me. She made a really relaxing treatment.  During it, I was still having nerves spasms and inner shaking/vibrations.

She really think my "heart" is all fine and that its withdrawal and anxiety. 

 

I have to be careful with my thoughts and mind cause I tend to relate everything I feel to a dramatic health problem. I really think that is the main issue I have to work on. 

 

My worse ennemy is me I guess...Im having a hard time letting go in this experience that life is sending me.

 

My wosre periods if the day are night and morning...

 

Here is my day...just like you ask..

 

Woke at 6h30: shake and vibrations and nausea

Stay in bed and got up at 9h00

9h15 drink water and eat a banana

Feel anxious about being shaky and have skipped beats from my heart.

 

10h30 acupuncture treatment 

12h00 no more nausea so ate a bit and took my fish oil supplements.

13h00 still feel those skipped beat but not as much as I did in morning and last night.

2h00 camomille tea, reading.

Feel more relax but still on an hypervigilant state of mind...

 

The past days, its beenn the same...

Around 4pm I feel more tired and foggy

Dinner at 5h30

6-7pm My anxiety start to rise such as ectopic/skipped or extrasystoles . Vibrations and shakes in my upper body start again.

Take 0.25mg clonazepam at 8pm

Try to go to bed at 10pm and read.

Anxiety is more high at that time and feel the inner vibrations. Fall asleep between 1am and 3 am.

 

[Lolita]

21 minutes ago, Altostrata said:

 

What do you mean by heart pounding? If it's very hard and continual, please go to the emergency room, they will make a recording of it and probably give you a benzo to calm it down.

 

If the palpitations and irregular heartbeat started after you quit Zoloft, most likely a small reinstatement, such as 5mg, is in order. You may have felt bad on it because you were taking too much.

 

They could also be from your inconsistent benzo dosing.

 

I am sorry your doctor is so poorly informed. You are going to have to make it clear what you want instead of asking your doctor for answers.

 

I am still looking for your daily drug and symptom notes.

I mean like a beat in between 2 beats but its like I feel them resonate in my chest. It started 3 or 4 days after I stop meds. It must be relate I guess.

And sometimes, I feel my heart beating a little faster

 

[Altostrata]

22 minutes ago, Lolita said:

6-7pm My anxiety start to rise such as ectopic/skipped or extrasystoles . Vibrations and shakes in my upper body start again.

 

Thank you for finally posting your daily notes. Is this the only time you have palpitations? If so, this symptom sounds like rebound from the clonazepam from the previous night wearing off. You are dependent on clonazepam. Please start a topic here to discuss your clonazepam dosing.

 

Lolita, this is only an online support group. We can't fix you over the Internet. We cannot respond to emergencies. It's up to you to decide whether to reinstate a little Effexor after going off too fast.

[India]

4 hours ago, Lolita said:

If someone read this...please respond....Im so scared...feel like Im dying! I feel awful.

Even my head is shaking. Heart is pounding bad and Im soo tired.

Hi Lolita, I'm sorry you are feeling so bad. I cannot give any medical advice but only speak from my own experience. When I get bad symptoms I seek medical advice and go to a medical centre to check my vitals. Withdrawal can be horrendous but i have found brief waves of respite. I had an attack tonight and now it's calming. Wishing you healing.

[Lolita]

16 minutes ago, Altostrata said:

 

Thank you for finally posting your daily notes. Is this the only time you have palpitations? If so, this symptom sounds like rebound from the clonazepam from the previous night wearing off. You are dependent on clonazepam. Please start a topic here to discuss your clonazepam dosing.

 

Lolita, this is only an online support group. We can't fix you over the Internet. We cannot respond to emergencies. It's up to you to decide whether to reinstate a little Effexor after going off too fast.

 

 

I was on zoloft 25mg not effexor....

 

If its from clonazapam, its weird cause I also took it at night since a year.

But maybe because of zoloft withdrawal, I should take more regularly during the day? Is that what you mean?

[Lolita]

10 minutes ago, India said:

Hi Lolita, I'm sorry you are feeling so bad. I cannot give any medical advice but only speak from my own experience. When I get bad symptoms I seek medical advice and go to a medical centre to check my vitals. Withdrawal can be horrendous but i have found brief waves of respite. I had an attack tonight and now it's calming. Wishing you healing.

Thanks India!

I know its hard!

Maybe it would be better to see my psychiatrist so she can checks my vitals...

[Altostrata]

My mistake, the suggestion was to take a little Zoloft.

 

You still have not answered my question:

 

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Thank you for finally posting your daily notes. Is this the only time you have palpitations? If so, this symptom sounds like rebound from the clonazepam from the previous night wearing off. You are dependent on clonazepam. Please start a topic here to discuss your clonazepam dosing.

 

Yes, you've been taking clonazepam a long time. You are dependent on clonazepam. Please start a topic here to discuss your clonazepam dosing.

 

If you don't want to do this, I'm not sure we can help you at all. We're not magicians, you don't answer questions, and you seem to think you don't need to do anything about your drugs.

[Lolita]

I normally never had problem with my heart or with palpitations.  But only got palpitations when really stress and I do have a bit of them during the day like in am or at the end if day. Palpitations means to me that I feel more my heartbeats and its a little faster.

 

And for your last paragraph, I really dont know what  you say and think abput it. It is not the  first time I feel you are saying things like that to me when I dont achieve or do whats ask right away. And that I dont want to do something like starting a topic.... ??? Really?

 

I seem to reply with all my best and with the lack of focus and the poor energy I have right now, it is hard to read and write sometimes.

 

I never ask for magician nor a sudden miracle but mostly support, encouragements and reassurances from persons who where in the kind of shoes I have right now. Reassurance thats it!!

Funny but I see a lot of other folks who get that kind of thing but with some others, its like the only thing is ask is to start a post, make a signature, and be somehow a little hard on them for making mistakes, for errors, etc.

 

We are all humains and we all are going into a big recovery/journey.

This forum has fabulous informations but dont forget the humain that needs to be calmed and reassure behind this long and harsh travel.

 

Saddly, I am too sensitive right now and the only thing I wish for is good surrounding to go through this. 

I recognise that I do not have my place here and dont blame anyone. You all do a great job and are great ! But I think its not for me.

 

A big thanks to everyone I crossed in here xxx

I will keep going and focus on recovery the best I can....And I will make it one day at a time, bany step !

[Altostrata]

You are dependent on clonazepam. You are having adverse reactions to that. If you want to address this, you need to discuss it here

[India]

It took me a while to get my head around the site but second time around I have found it so helpful.  It still takes me time to navigate it all and access the information. I was and still can be slow on the uptake. By providing details I got some help

with tapering issues and also I discovered things like the Ashton Manual. 

[shespark]

On 10/11/2018 at 3:33 PM, Lolita said:

I normally never had problem with my heart or with palpitations.  But only got palpitations when really stress and I do have a bit of them during the day like in am or at the end if day. Palpitations means to me that I feel more my heartbeats and its a little faster.

 

And for your last paragraph, I really dont know what  you say and think abput it. It is not the  first time I feel you are saying things like that to me when I dont achieve or do whats ask right away. And that I dont want to do something like starting a topic.... ??? Really?

 

I seem to reply with all my best and with the lack of focus and the poor energy I have right now, it is hard to read and write sometimes.

 

I never ask for magician nor a sudden miracle but mostly support, encouragements and reassurances from persons who where in the kind of shoes I have right now. Reassurance thats it!!

Funny but I see a lot of other folks who get that kind of thing but with some others, its like the only thing is ask is to start a post, make a signature, and be somehow a little hard on them for making mistakes, for errors, etc.

 

We are all humains and we all are going into a big recovery/journey.

This forum has fabulous informations but dont forget the humain that needs to be calmed and reassure behind this long and harsh travel.

 

Saddly, I am too sensitive right now and the only thing I wish for is good surrounding to go through this. 

I recognise that I do not have my place here and dont blame anyone. You all do a great job and are great ! But I think its not for me.

 

A big thanks to everyone I crossed in here xxx

I will keep going and focus on recovery the best I can....And I will make it one day at a time, bany step !

Lolita, How are you? Are you still having heart paps? After my dr decreased my zoloft from 100mg to 50mg back in Aug 1st...I was having heart paps too. But, I no longer have them. My worst symptom is the swaying. Hope you are doing better? 

Take Care Shespark