Mikefeelworst: Need help. I am so scared.

[Mikefeelworst]

I am too tired now... 

[Mikefeelworst]

Someone here? 😪

[Mikefeelworst]

On 6/3/2020 at 12:55 AM, Altostrata said:

You feel nauseous after taking Pristiq 50mg and Rivotril 0.0625mg in the morning, is that correct? Do you feel nauseous at other times?

 

Please do not ask the same question over and over.

When should I taper off my 25mg zoloft. 

[Altostrata]

Mike, you do not seem to pay attention to my posts. This makes me think I'm wasting my time responding to your questions.

 

Did you stop taking lorazepam last night?

[Mikefeelworst]

10 hours ago, Altostrata said:

Mike, you do not seem to pay attention to my posts. This makes me think I'm wasting my time responding to your questions.

 

Did you stop taking lorazepam last night?

the night before last night

[Altostrata]

How do you feel now?

[Mikefeelworst]

14 minutes ago, Altostrata said:

How do you feel now?

I sleep well. But still brain blank. Still emotion numb. Good news is rested than before. 

[Altostrata]

I'm glad you're feeling better, Mike, and I hope you continue to feel better.

 

You are still taking a lot of drugs. Please do not change your drugs again, until you find out the effect of the last change.

 

If you continue to change your drugs, we cannot help you.

[Mikefeelworst]

6 minutes ago, Altostrata said:

I'm glad you're feeling better, Mike, and I hope you continue to feel better.

 

You are still taking a lot of drugs. Please do not change your drugs again, until you find out the effect of the last change.

 

If you continue to change your drugs, we cannot help you.

I will meet my doctor on June 17th, I have no words to say. I think I told him my emotion numb, He should told me to decrease rivotril at night and don't need to eat at the morning...But he don't trust me... So I keep following him. I already took benzo over eight weeks...I think benzo is short-term drugs. Not recommended to take over four weeks. 

[Altostrata]

Not sure why you're here, Mike. You ask questions but you don't listen.

 

If you don't want to listen, don't ask questions. That makes sense, doesn't it?

[Mikefeelworst]

2 minutes ago, Altostrata said:

Not sure why you're here, Mike. You ask questions but you don't listen.

 

If you don't want to listen, don't ask questions. That makes sense, doesn't it?

I mean my doctor doesn't listen to me about emotion numb.. 

[Altostrata]

No, Mike, I'm talking about listening to me. Why should I answer your questions if you don't listen?

[Mikefeelworst]

9 minutes ago, Altostrata said:

No, Mike, I'm talking about listening to me. Why should I answer your questions if you don't listen?

Because I am too worry 

about myself and stupid. Sorry😢

[Altostrata]

Do not change your drugs. Please let us know how you're feeling.

[Mikefeelworst]

35 minutes ago, Altostrata said:

Do not change your drugs. Please let us know how you're feeling.

I feel tired and don't want to do everything after I took 50mg pristiq and 0.0625mg rivotril at the morning.. 

[Altostrata]

Exactly what drugs are you taking now, at what times of day and dosages?

[Mikefeelworst]

6 hours ago, Altostrata said:

Exactly what drugs are you taking now, at what times of day and dosages?

10:00 am:  Pristiq 50mg, Rivotril 0.0625 mg(twice a day every six hours this dose) 
4:00 pm: Rivotril 0.0625mg(twice a day every six hours this dose) 
12:00 am: Zoloft25mg and rivotril 0.25mg

[Altostrata]

How are you sleeping?

[Mikefeelworst]

41 minutes ago, Altostrata said:

How are you sleeping?

Sleep well, But My brain still worse. I feel tired and don't have wish, I don't know is that because long time on sadative. 

[Altostrata]

For the next week, please let know of any significant changes in your symptoms. Please do not change any of your drugs, take them at the same times and dosage every day.

[Mikefeelworst]

Today is June 7 th.I felt asleep after my lunch. Cognitive still messed up. And so so so sleepy. 

[Mikefeelworst]

I am not sure am I suffering depersonalization. My brain is empty...... Such a intellectual disability. I am scare that my brain got damaged. 

[Mikefeelworst]

On 6/6/2020 at 11:09 AM, Altostrata said:

For the next week, please let know of any significant changes in your symptoms. Please do not change any of your drugs, take them at the same times and dosage every day.

I feel so numb on my emotion. Maybe it is the long term on rivotril's result... 

[Altostrata]

As explained perhaps 12 times so far, you are experiencing the effects of the drugs. What we want to know are SIGNIFICANT CHANGES in your symptoms.

 

Since you reduced lorazepam on June 3, have there been any SIGNIFICANT CHANGES in your symptoms?

 

Are you still taking your drugs on this schedule?

 

On 6/5/2020 at 6:44 PM, Mikefeelworst said:

10:00 am:  Pristiq 50mg, Rivotril 0.0625 mg(twice a day every six hours this dose) 
4:00 pm: Rivotril 0.0625mg(twice a day every six hours this dose) 
12:00 am: Zoloft25mg and rivotril 0.25mg

 

[Mikefeelworst]

22 hours ago, Altostrata said:

As explained perhaps 12 times so far, you are experiencing the effects of the drugs. What we want to know are SIGNIFICANT CHANGES in your symptoms.

 

Since you reduced lorazepam on June 3, have there been any SIGNIFICANT CHANGES in your symptoms?

 

Are you still taking your drugs on this schedule?

 

 

Yes, on this schedule.After I stopped lorazepam. I felt more tired around three days. But now I feel rested than before. But my mind still blank. And Emotion numb.😭Now, I back on my habits but so tired on them. One thing I have never give up is go to the gym. Those meds let me lost my experience's feeling. I hope that I will get better after I came off my klonopin later. 😢

[Altostrata]

Okay, now you have a difficult choice. It's still not a good idea to take Pristiq and Zoloft together. If I were you, I'd go off Pristiq first, before the 25mg Zoloft. The Zoloft might keep you from getting worse withdrawal symptoms from going off Pristiq, and is easier to taper than Pristiq. If you go off Zoloft first, you're still stuck on reducing Pristiq.

 

Pristiq can be difficult to go off because you cannot make a liquid out of it and the tablet is hard to split. It is available only as 50mg and, in some countries, 25mg tablets.

 

Ask your pharmacist if 25mg Pristiq tablets are available in your country.

 

Just quitting the 50mg Pristiq is a high risk of withdrawal symptoms. Dropping to the 25mg tablet is the only choice with Pristiq, but that's a big decrease of 50%. You might get withdrawal from that.

 

The Pristiq tablets contain a glue that slowly releases the drug. If you change to a 25mg tablet, you could cut a 50mg tablet into quarters (or a 25mg tablet into halves) so you could take 25mg + 12.5mg or 37.5mg, which is not such a big change from 50mg. You'd take the 12.5mg piece in the afternoon.

 

However, when you cut a Pristiq tablet up, the drug may be quickly released and cause a bad reaction.

 

Otherwise, you'd have to switch from Pristiq to venlafaxine, a related drug, and taper that, but you're not supposed to take venlafaxine with Zoloft, either, and this could cause a bad reaction.. Making drug switches is also risky.

 

What do you want to do?

[Mikefeelworst]

5 hours ago, Altostrata said:

Okay, now you have a difficult choice. It's still not a good idea to take Pristiq and Zoloft together. If I were you, I'd go off Pristiq first, before the 25mg Zoloft. The Zoloft might keep you from getting worse withdrawal symptoms from going off Pristiq, and is easier to taper than Pristiq. If you go off Zoloft first, you're still stuck on reducing Pristiq.

 

Pristiq can be difficult to go off because you cannot make a liquid out of it and the tablet is hard to split. It is available only as 50mg and, in some countries, 25mg tablets.

 

Ask your pharmacist if 25mg Pristiq tablets are available in your country.

 

Just quitting the 50mg Pristiq is a high risk of withdrawal symptoms. Dropping to the 25mg tablet is the only choice with Pristiq, but that's a big decrease of 50%. You might get withdrawal from that.

 

The Pristiq tablets contain a glue that slowly releases the drug. If you change to a 25mg tablet, you could cut a 50mg tablet into quarters (or a 25mg tablet into halves) so you could take 25mg + 12.5mg or 37.5mg, which is not such a big change from 50mg. You'd take the 12.5mg piece in the afternoon.

 

However, when you cut a Pristiq tablet up, the drug may be quickly released and cause a bad reaction.

 

Otherwise, you'd have to switch from Pristiq to venlafaxine, a related drug, and taper that, but you're not supposed to take venlafaxine with Zoloft, either, and this could cause a bad reaction.. Making drug switches is also risky.

 

What do you want to do?

Here not have only 25mg pristiq😢Maybe try to cut a 50mg into quarters and take 25mg +12.5mg(3/4) first? And see what will happen? I will meet that doctor next week Wednesday. I think I need to talk to him I am too tired. Then  I think he will tell me decrease my klonopin 0.25 mg at night to 0.125mg and don't need to eat (0.0625mg+0.0625mg)at morning. He don't know I take 25mg zoloft by myself. So I don't want to tell him. Now I go to his clinic is because make sure I can get enough meds to tapper off them. I will not tell him emotion numb, because he said if I said emotion numb again he will ignore me WTF....

[Mikefeelworst]

14 hours ago, Mikefeelworst said:

😢

Today I went to the gym. I back home I ate 0.0625mg rivotril. After that I took a shower then ate my dinner.After dinner, I slept....  It just 20:00pm...... Those drugs makes me think that I am having serious mental problem.... 

[Altostrata]

Yes, we know you are having a bad time with the drugs.

 

Your doctor won't know anything about tapering Pristiq. If you want to taper by splitting the tablet, you might take 1/4 tablet (12.5mg) at 8 a.m., noon, and 4 p.m. That would be a reduction to 37.5mg Pristiq. Take your other drugs on your regular schedule. Please let us know how you're doing.

[Mikefeelworst]

1 hour ago, Altostrata said:

Yes, we know you are having a bad time with the drugs.

 

Your doctor won't know anything about tapering Pristiq. If you want to taper by splitting the tablet, you might take 1/4 tablet (12.5mg) at 8 a.m., noon, and 4 p.m. That would be a reduction to 37.5mg Pristiq. Take you other drugs on your regular schedule. Please let us know how you're doing.

Since I took klonopin until now, Those my memories seem to be faded... I don't know why  benzodiazepine abusers like them.

   I make some friends who have mental health problems and psychosis online recently. I chat with a 25 years old guy who is suffering schizophrenia. He need to take antipsychotics and sedative every day. He told me he don't have brave to stop taking them. He told me he has been taking lorazepam 1mg every night for three years. If he don't take it, he can't sleep... I think he already depended on them. I feel sad who is suffering schizophrenia. Starting to take the drugs and  life is done. I hope someday schizophrenia can be 'cure'. And patient don't need to struggle with drugs 😭

BUSTY AUSTRIAN GIRL PICKED UP AND 

[Erell]

On 6/11/2020 at 7:34 PM, Mikefeelworst said:

Since I took klonopin until now, Those my memories seem to be faded... I don't know why  benzodiazepine abusers like them.

   I make some friends who have mental health problems and psychosis online recently. I chat with a 25 years old guy who is suffering schizophrenia. He need to take antipsychotics and sedative every day. He told me he don't have brave to stop taking them. He told me he has been taking lorazepam 1mg every night for three years. If he don't take it, he can't sleep... I think he already depended on them. I feel sad who is suffering schizophrenia. Starting to take the drugs and  life is done. I hope someday schizophrenia can be 'cure'. And patient don't need to struggle with drugs

 

Hello Mike.

 

While going this hard journey, I understand the need to communicate and share with people who understand. Peer support is actually one of the purpose of this website.

However, while going through the worse of it, I think it is important to set boundaries and focus on what is best to help your CNS.

 

While reading you, I can feel how upset you might be, sharing people sufferings. I'm not saying it is a bad thing, it only shows how much empathy you have

But maybe sharing positive stories would be easier for you for the moment, what do you thnink ?

 

Please, focus on selfcare, on offering smoothness and light to your body and brain ❤️

 

Edited June 14, 2020 by Erell