Asta: Cipralex

[Asta]

Good day I would like to hear sincere advice. I started taking Cipralex 10 mg after an 
 uterus myomas operation for severe headaches. When I started taking this medicine, I had a serious side effect, I suffered from it and thought it should be. Insomnia occurs, there was high anxiety, inequality, headache, nausea, dizziness. It all lasted about six weeks.

 Five months later, with the permission of a doctor, I try to stop taking medication, but this is almost impossible. High anxiety and fear (it was not against drug abuse). The burning body, headache and whole body, the doctor does not know what to do. I do not need to take drugs for 10 days.

 

Please advise what to do, how can I overcome these exclusion cases? How long will it last?start to understand why many people take medication for a long time, it is not possible to stop them directly, and feel less well off than before taking medication.

 

 When I reduced my medication, I took 5 mg for one month, then in a week at 2.5 mg and I completely stopped. Now I'm taking vitamin c, b vitamins, minerals, omega 3. My doctor's only advice is to go back to medicine. I also go to psychotherapy, KET.If you did not have depression before taking medication, then such a terrible symptom might really occur.

Edited August 12, 2018 by manymoretodays
just spacing for ease of reading

[Altostrata]

Welcome, Asta.

 

I am sorry you have had these adverse reactions and your doctor kept you on this drug.

 

If I were you, I would take 1mg Cipralex immediately. This topic explains how to take a small amount Tips for tapering off Lexapro (escitalopram)  Your doctor may be able to order the liquid form, or you can make your own with water.

 

A small amount may be all that's needed to stop withdrawal symptoms. You would stay on 1mg for some time and then taper off by tiny amounts later. Please let us know how you're doing.

[Asta]

Thanks for the reply!

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by ChessieCat
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[manymoretodays]

Welcome Asta,

This will act as your own personal introduction/journal page.  It's your introduction to the community, as well a place to post questions regarding your own withdrawal journey, updates, and for communication around the same.  Feel free to explore the site a bit and get familiar.

 

If you could do a signature for us that would be very helpful.  This is the section that you see below our posts.

 

I'll include a couple links to areas that you may find helpful right now:

About reinstating

What is withdrawal syndrome

The windows and waves pattern of stabilization

 

Try and read through these when you can, especially the first one if you do decide to reinstate the 1 mg dose of Cipralex.

The first posts in all of these are very educational and informative.

 

Please keep us updated and feel free to post any questions you may have right here.

 

Again, welcome aboard......I like to call us the surviving antidepressants survival ship,

Love, peace, healing, and growth,

mmt

Edited August 13, 2018 by manymoretodays

[manymoretodays]

Asta,

On 8/10/2018 at 5:55 AM, Asta said:

I also go to psychotherapy, KET.

I meant to ask what is KET?   Is that a form of therapy or Ketamine?  I'm hoping it's a psychotherapy.

[Asta]

Cognitive behavioral therapy.

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by ChessieCat
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[manymoretodays]

Okay.....good.  Thanks, that was fast.  So glad it's not Ketamine.....  I just wanted to clarify.

[Asta]

😊

[manymoretodays]

Hi Asta,

And yikes.  I forgot to give you a key information link:

why taper by 10%

So there you go.....

 

L, P, H, and G,

mmt

[Asta]

Can a withdrawal symptom be drowsy?

 

 

 

 

[Gridley]

If you will Google survivingantidepressants.org drowsiness, you will see that some members have reported drowsiness as a withdrawal symptom.

[Asta]

Now, on the 18th, when I do not use Cipralex, I feel better. There is still a weak anxiety in the chest, which leads me to the mind, sometimes there is a lack of air. Inside, hang a strange feeling, I can not even say. Let's say I'm in a car, I want to escape from there, it's still sad. And it is clear that it's never going to end ... There were no symptoms before using the medication. When I speak to my doctor, I do not hear anything else as you grow medicine. They said nobody was abstinence from such small doses.

 

Edited August 25, 2018 by ChessieCat
fixed up interpreter formatting

[jozeff]

Hi, are u typing on a cellphone??

 

Never seen such large fonts here.

 

Good day!!

 

Jozeff

[Asta]

Hello, I am sorry to write to translator. I took Cipralex for 5 months.  When I reduced my medication, I took 5 mg for one month, then in a week at 2,5 mg and I completely stopped. Now it is been 4 weeks since I did not use Cipralex. I feel little better, but anxiety does not stop (before he was not), such a feeling of unpleasant feeling in the chest, three nights worse sleep. I also sometimes feel an air shortage, muscle pain, mood changes, shaking. Today started to feel nauseous, headache. I used Tritico 75 mg in the evening, because when I started taking Cipralex, insomnia occurred. Share your experience when it all ends? Is it normal that these symptoms do not ends after one month? My doctor does not say anything else, just go back to the medicine, because the disease returned. I say that I did not have such a symptom when I started taking drugs, she saying that symptoms are changing, and there is no abstinence symptoms from a short consumption and low dose.  When I started taking medication, the outsiders were horrible, and then for the firs time I got to know such a terrible anxiety. All symptoms last 6 weeks. After such a long distress symptoms can really get sick. Do not understand what is going on with you, start thinking, or maybe it is really a disease. But wake up and remember that it was not before taking medication...

[Altostrata]

Asta, you have withdrawal syndrome. Read this:

 

On 8/12/2018 at 2:45 PM, Altostrata said:

If I were you, I would take 1mg Cipralex immediately. This topic explains how to take a small amount Tips for tapering off Lexapro (escitalopram)  Your doctor may be able to order the liquid form, or you can make your own with water. 

 

A small amount may be all that's needed to stop withdrawal symptoms. You would stay on 1mg for some time and then taper off by tiny amounts later. Please let us know how you're doing.

 

[Asta]

I do not have liquid, just pills. Could this be such an abstinence after a short time of use? Can I expect it to pass if I do not go back to medicine? I'm afraid I will again drink medicines, or anything like that, after a month I will return to medicine again?

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by ChessieCat
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[Altostrata]

It may be difficult for you, but you need to read all the links we've given you, they answer all your questions.

 

Withdrawal symptoms can last for many months. Whether you want to take a little bit of Cipralex to stop the withdrawal symptoms is your decision.

 

This topic explains how to take a small amount Tips for tapering off Lexapro (escitalopram)  Your doctor may be able to order the liquid form, or you can make your own with water. 

 

 

[Asta]

Thanks for the reply. Can I dissolve the tablet in water and drink 1 mg?

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by ChessieCat
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[Altostrata]

If you have 10mg Cipralex tablets, you might dissolve one tablet in 50mL water, resulting in 1mg Cipralex per 5mL water. Mix well and take 5mL with an oral syringe, that will be a dose of 1mg Cipralex.

 

To help us out, follow these instructions Please put your drug and withdrawal history in your signature

[Asta]

The fluid and tablet strength are the same? 10 ml of liquid = 10 mg tablets?

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by ChessieCat
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[Leo1983]

Wooooh!!!!

 

Do not take 10ML of this liquid.

 

1ML of liquid = 20mg of lexapro.

 

Therefore if you draw up 10ML of liquid you will be taken 200mg of escitalopram.

 

 

[Leo1983]

It is just my opinion Asta but from some information i got today i would strongly suggest you go on with the freedom from medication. All your doing is prelonging the suffering. Try to take each day until the months pass and your free from this medical horror show.

 

If there too bad fair play.

[Altostrata]

Asta, if your doctor orders the prescription liquid for you, please ask your pharmacist to explain to you how to take it. The strength is on the label.

 

You will need to read Tips for tapering off Lexapro (escitalopram)  carefully so you understand what you're doing.

[Asta]

Thank you, Leo.
I can no longer trust any doctors. I feel tricky, I actually cured these medicines unnecessarily. I just hit my head and fresh. Now I no longer know who goes with me. Today, the weather began to disappear, then anxiety, nausea, shaking. Is it true that Cipralex is the strongest Ssri? 

[Leo1983]

Its the most Selective of them all. It is 3 times more potent than its sister drug Citalopram.

[Leo1983]

 

[Leo1983]

Please watch this. It helps.

[Leo1983]

This is the man i spoke to today.

[Asta]

Thanks, I do not understand everything, I will ask for something to be translated.

When I was having medications for about 2 weeks I was bad, then better for 2 weeks, and now it's completely bad. Is it with sources that goes wrong? I thought I should improve over time.

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by ChessieCat
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[Leo1983]

Sources??

 

Yes - In time you heal. But stay away fro. Meds if u can.

[Asta]

Hello I stopped taking Cipralex for almost 5 weeks, followed by insomnia in the last week. Do you have any tips for sleeping sick? I still use Triticco 75 mg when I started taking Cipralex and started to lose sleep.

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by ChessieCat
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[manymoretodays]

Hi Asta,

Triticco is coming up as Trazadone.  And Cipralex is escitalopram here in the U.S.  The brand name here is Lexapro.

 

We do need to know all of your drugs that you are presently on.  We also need for you to do a signature.  This is the portion that you may see below each members post.......unless you are posting and reading from a phone device.  Then you won't be able to see signatures.    Please put your withdrawal history in a signature

If your drug history is very long, the last few years will do. FOR READABILITY, SHORT LINES ARE BEST.

 

• A list is easier to understand than one or multiple paragraphs
• Include ALL drugs, doses, and dates (starting and stopping)
• Any drugs prior to 24 months ago can just be listed with start and stop years
• Please use actual dates or approximate dates (e.g. mid-June) rather than relative time frames (e.g. 3 months ago)
• Spell out months (e.g. "January" or "Jan" as 9/1/2016 can be interpreted as 9 Jan 2016 or 1 Sept 2016)
• Please leave out symptoms and diagnoses

 

I often use a site drugs.com to check medications quickly now........before I agree to any prescriptions.  I think you should look at the drug interactions report there and then, if you can, go ahead and copy the results here to your page.  drugs.com

 

Your Triticco or Trazodone will need to be carefully tapered off in the future.  It's really not a good drug, in my opinion, for sleep or to elevate ones mood(often used as an AD-antidepressant).  Tips for tapering off trazodone

 

Have you given any consideration to reinstating just a small amount of Cipralex/escitalopram?  Please review the previous posts from Altostrata.  If I were you......I would at least consider this option after a review of the information.  Then let us know what you have decided.
About reinstating and stabilizing to reduce withdrawal symptoms

reinstatement is the only know medical treatment for alleviation of withdrawal syndrome.

Tips for tapering off Lexapro(escitalopram)

This ^ will help you, or your helper figure out how to take a very small dose of escitalopram.

 

And here is what we have on sleep problems secondary to withdrawal:

Tips to help sleep- so many of us have that awful withdrawal insomnia

 

I hope you can get some rest and relax a bit,

Love, peace, healing, and growth,

mmt

Edited August 30, 2018 by manymoretodays

[Leo1983]

Oh Jeeez is that what that is?? Trazadone?. Oh Astra this is what can be causing your anxiety also and the sleep disturbance.

 

Trazadone is awful to withdraw from. It too is an antidepressant. So you have stopped 1 and started another. Some of your other symptoms could be from the trazadone you recently started.

 

You need some support to get off all of these meds.

 

 

[Asta]

Hi manymoretodays,I really feel sorry fthe fact that I do noI

 

I really feel sorry for that I do not understand everything. I need help to fill out a signature.

I started taking Escitalopram on March 17, 5 mg decreased on June 8; July 19, decreased by 2.5 mg, and on July 30 I completely stopped. TrazadoneI take 75 mg from March 28 to the present. I do not know if I should increase Escitalopram. Trazadone I want off.

 

feel sorry for the fact that I do not understand everything. I need help to fill out a signature.

I started taking Escitolopram on March 17, 5 mg decreased on June 8, July 19, decreased by 2.5 mg, and on July 30 I completely stopped. Trazadon I drink 75 mg from March 28 to the present. I do not know if I should increase esci Trazadon I want to give up, but probably now is not the wrong time.

 

everything. I need help to fill out a signature.

I started taking Escitalopram on March 17, 5 mg decreased on June 8, July 19, decreased by 2.5 mg, and on July 30 I completely stopped. Trazadone I take 75 mg from March 28 to the present. I do not know if I should increase esci Trazadon I want to give up, but probably now is not the wrong time.

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by ChessieCat
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[Asta]

Leo, I started escitolopram on March 17th, I did not sleep completely from these drugs. March 28 I started Trazodon for sleep and I've got it up to now. Of course I want to throw it. There is no help in my country, only everybody proposes to increase the dose.

 

Edited September 22, 2018 by ChessieCat
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[Leo1983]

Did you start Trazadone whilst taking Escitalopram?