Ten0275: I'm Dave and if I am capable of healing, each of you are - Please hang in there.

[ten0275]

Community of Healing, hello.

 

In December of 2014, just a bit more than 6 years ago, I came to this site after already weathering two years of nearly life-terminating withdrawal. I'd been on psychotropic medications for most of my life and in my estimation, my nervous system had decided it'd had enough. From February 2012 to approximately March of 2014, I felt I was literally living in hell. I was hospitalized twice, lost long-running friendships and new career opportunities, tried a plethora of medications, supplements, and herbs in an attempt to "fix" withdrawal, and ultimately came to the realization that pharmaceutical medications would not be the answer to my suffering. Pharmaceutical medications had been the cause of my suffering. And what my brain and body needed was support, tenderness, forgiveness, care and time... TIME... to heal.

 

Benzodiazepines had been the first drugs I withdrew from. That was a brutal, nightmarish withdrawal, but relatively short-lived (acute @ 8 months). Tapering from Mirtazapine proved a longer journey, a much longer journey that I shared here.

 

 

So this is my success story, my chapter-turning post. This is my declaration that I have been successful in tapering from medications that had deranged my nervous system to such a degree that I was scarcely able to operate in the world anymore. I took much time to make this declaration of success as I am by nature skeptical, and wanted to be sure that healing had indeed come - and come to stay. I feel that it has.

 

I discontinued Mirtazapine, my last psychotropic medication, on June 15, 2019. There are still some echos of it that I deal with in day to day life. My issues with histamine intolerance I believe are directly attributable to Mirtazapine's affinity for histamine receptor occupancy. I manage this issue with dietary and exercise modifications as well as use of select vitamins and herbs. It is not life-deterring. It can be inconvenient and sometimes unpleasant, but it is nowhere near as debilitating as withdrawal itself had been.

 

Despite posting this success story, I'm not going anywhere really. I am always happy to answer questions about my journey. When I was in the worst of my own withdrawal, the feedback from moderators and members of this community and elsewhere were absolute lifelines. Not that anyone could necessarily fix my problems - but I could walk away with sound, compassionate advice and if nothing else, the knowledge that my suffering had been heard, and that someone ultimately cared about me. Your suffering is heard, and someone ultimately cares about you.

 

I want to thank @Altostrata and every moderator past and present for their kind forbearance, compassion, and dedication. I want to thank every member for their strength, endurance, bravery, and perseverance towards a healthy life free of the chemicals that have caused them harm. You all have something, many things, to be proud of.

 

I believe in every human's potential to heal. Take your time, taper well, make the most sound choices you can, and know that healing is absolutely within your power to achieve.

 

Hang in there,

 

Dave

 

Edited January 10, 2021 by ten0275
Date correction, I couldn’t math before withdrawal, and I still can’t math :)

[mva96]

Congratulations Dave, you've earned it. Enjoy the shiny, new brain! 🧠

[manymoretodays]

Yay!    Thanks Dave/Ten!

[Mimi79]

@ten0275 Thank you so much Dave! And congratulations for your healing! You are such an inspiration for me.
Always the good words to give us hope! 

Mimi79

[benesh]

Yes excellent. Big uplift for me. Telling my supporters so they can remind me.

[getofflex]

@ten0275I'm so touched and inspired by your story that I'm crying tears of relief.  Thank you for sharing this!  Jennifer 

[ten0275]

 

@mva96 @manymoretodays @Mimi79@benesh @getofflex

 

My sincere thanks for your kind words of congratulations and support. You know, it was actually really hard to write the success story for me. In some ways, despite feeling as well as I do, I had a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that I was actually in the position do declare victory.

 

I think a great majority of us go through that period of time where we are absolutely sure that there is something about our particular circumstances - drug histories, genetic make-ups, life situations, etc. that exclude us from healing. I know that was the case for me. I was pretty sure that having been medicated since I was a child, and on some drugs that aren't even prescribed anymore, that I was beyond healing. And of course in the middle of it all, when time seems to move so, so slowly... it truly seems an insurmountable and unending challenge. I was glad to be proven otherwise. 🙂 And I truly believe that healing is within everyone's grasp no matter what the medications, the genetics, or life has dealt upon you.

 

So much respect, love, and gratitude to this community. ❤️

 

Hang in there,

Dave

[wantrelief]

37 minutes ago, ten0275 said:

And of course in the middle of it all, when time seems to move so, so slowly... it truly seems an insurmountable and unending challenge. I was glad to be proven otherwise. 🙂 And I truly believe that healing is within everyone's grasp no matter what the medications, the genetics, or life has dealt upon you.

This is so beautiful and helpful, Dave.  Thank you so much for everything you have written and for all of the support you have provided here. Congratulations on your recovery!!

[arbor]

I can't thank you enough, Dave, for the hope and compassion you share with us here.  I've felt quite desperate recently, but support from others and now, reading your post really, really helps.  All my best wishes to you.   What strength it must've taken you.

[ryan1982]

Dave, I know we don't know each other but I'm so dang proud of you. I'm currently struggling and in a bad wave and I sometimes think I can't do it. I really appreciate your story and testimony to keep me strong.

[Jay78]

Great news Dave! May you live long and prosper!

 

[freespirit]

Congratulations Dave! You've done an amazing job not just of coming off meds, but also, of documenting your journey in such a profound way. I remember reading your thread early on and finding so much inspiration from your writing and experiences. I'm so grateful for the support you've shown me while we travel this path together. I hope you are proud of what you've done--including the ways in which you've supported so many others. 

[ten0275]

@wantrelief@arbor@ryan1982@Jay78@freespirit

 

It means a lot that you stopped by, checked out the success story, and gave me some good wishes. If anything I've ever written on this site has helped, or will help, another going through the process, it is truly a gift to me.

 

I'd never want to go through what I went through in withdrawal again. But I am stronger because I did survive it. I'm more certain of my own strength - as a human being. There were so many people that showed me compassion and care during my darkest days of struggling when I didn't think I was going to make it - and when I didn't even feel like I deserved the compassion and care extended to me. There were some times when I questioned... everything.

 

What are the gifts we can give each other on a peer support site like this? We can give the gift of relaying our own unique stories so that others can find solace in a shared experience of suffering. We can give the gift of techniques that have worked for us in terms of lessening the suffering during the ups and downs of windows and waves. We can give the gift of sharing both our triumphs and missteps, so that others might utilize or avoid them. But honestly, in my opinion, the best gift we can ever give is hearing one another - of being present to listen to one another. Of validating the experiences that so much of the medical establishment and drug industry invalidate. Of bearing witness to our shared journeys. Of being peers - through the thick and the thin of it.

 

I found these gifts here.

 

Hang in there,

Dave

[Shep]

@ten0275Thank you for gracing the site with your success story.

 

Your writing is always calming and your posts helpful to anyone struggling. 

 

On 1/11/2021 at 1:45 PM, ten0275 said:

I was pretty sure that having been medicated since I was a child, and on some drugs that aren't even prescribed anymore, that I was beyond healing. And of course in the middle of it all, when time seems to move so, so slowly... it truly seems an insurmountable and unending challenge. I was glad to be proven otherwise. 🙂

 

This especially resonated and is something that needs to be messaged. 

[HardTimes]

Hey Dave. Thanks for writing this. I just read your earlier "almost there" success story and found it moving and helpful. I'm kind of in that really crappy place you describe, but then again, maybe not as bad as what you went through. I can't believe how many people have it even worse than me, and yet I feel so very horrible! But I appreciate your points about the hospital - I'm kind of on the verge of checking myself into one, if I could find one to check in to, because I want to abdicate responsibility for all this. I'm so, so, so sick and tired of trying to figure it out an make the effort, I just want to check in somewhere and let someone else take charge. But I take your story as a warning not to do so, tempting as it might be. Thanks for staying in touch here and helping out people who aren't there yet.

[senseless]

Hi Dave,

Congrats on your success and thankyou for sharing, it provides much needed hope for the community. 

I was wondering if you could detail the progression of your sleep?

[ten0275]

@Shep

I'm truly grateful if my writing has a soothing effect. I know how important that is at all stages of the process. Thank you so much for the kind words, they mean a lot.

 

@HardTimes

I can very much appreciate what you are saying when you note that a driving force behind your urge to hospitalize is the abdication of responsibility. Well said. That is a lot of what it was for me. In my case, I was having such heavy-hitting intrusive thoughts of self and external harm, I just wanted to take my own power away because at that point, the fear caused me to not trust myself - at all. I wanted to give up whatever control I had left in the name of not having to own the suffering or the consequences of the suffering. It was the wrong choice for me to hospitalize once, let alone twice. It was completely fear-driven. I had to learn by getting burned in that case. It didn't sink me obviously, but it probably set me back a bit. I'm glad if what I wrote helped you to frame your own decision-making. It's nice to meet you, thanks for the good words. Hang in there, and keep up the good work.

 

@senseless

Thank you for the congratulations, I really do appreciate that. Sleep was a struggle for me very early, when the benzo and mirtazapine withdrawal were happening in destructive unison. I went through approximately 2 months where I was essentially netting zero hours of sleep. Basically my body would lose consciousness for about 10 to 20 minutes when it simply couldn't operate anymore and I'd snap (literally, an in-my-head audible snapping sound and muscle jerk) awake for another indeterminate time-frame.

 

After those couple of months, the sleep started to come back... slowly. When I was around 7.5.mg on the Remeron, I'd sleep well during periods of stabilization. Every time I would cut, I'd lose that stabilization and have low-sleep and sometimes no-sleep nights. Now an interesting thing for me - and perhaps it is the result of my laboriously slow taper - is that once I got below 2mg, the cuts didn't really effect my sleep any more. And when I jumped, sleep was not an issue. I couldn't believe that. I had braced myself for a bad round of sleepless nights post-taper and it never came. All this to say that as my nervous system would gain some semblance of equilibrium between cuts, the sleep would even out. And in fact, better sleep was a sign to me that I had in fact stabilized.

 

At this point, I still will have periods of poorer sleep if I am not careful with histamine intake. This is a leftover wound from the Mirtazapine and how it impacts the histamine receptors. But I try to be careful and usually that caution is rewarded with good results. If sleep starts falling off, I know I need to reign in the histamine again.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Hang in there,

Dave

Edited January 13, 2021 by ten0275
typo city

[Sheera]

Beautiful story ❤️

[ten0275]

@Sheera

 

I appreciate you taking the time to read my story, and check in. It means a lot.

 

Hang in there,

 

Dave

[waves12]

Thank you for posting your story I am so pleased for you. 

I am 4.5 years into w.d and still suffering I went cold turkey. I have not had many days of seeing much hope. Had a massive pile of stress the last 2 years and this has for sure taken its toll on me. I am in a constant state of high anxiety with no days off and it's crippling and don't have much of a life at all. 

 

Would like to ask you if you suffered with extreme anxiety and also did you have a lot of things to work through from the past and did you seek therapy? Any thing you can pass on through your journey will help me if you don't mind sharing. 

 

Thank you. 

Waves 

[ten0275]

@waves12, hello.

 

Thank you for taking the time to check in, and for the good words, much appreciated.

 

I'm sorry for the suffering you've endured. It's been a long march to the sea for you, that constant anxiety is not an easy thing to handle for long duration. And I absolutely understand that any extra stress applied to a dysregulated nervous system is basically petrol on an already raging fire.

 

The extreme anxiety for me began in the couple years leading up to withdrawal when I was likely experiencing some sort of tolerance issues. It wasn't constant in those lead-up years, but it grew ever more-so as I inched closer, unaware, to the point where everything just fell apart for me. It reached its skin-crawling pinnacle during acute withdrawal where it was literally 24/7 for a number of months, before subtly fading. That was the most horrible period of my life, by leagues, thus far.

 

To be honest, I didn't really know what I would have to work through from my past. We all have varying degrees of dents, dings, and scar tissue from the lives we lead. I went through withdrawal starting at aged 36 years old and had been on medication of some sort or other since I was under 10 years old. I never felt like I had a clear understanding of what living meant from behind that sort of cloud. That said, I did utilize a psychologist to work towards getting to know myself for who I truly was without the medication being a part of my composition. I had absolutely no idea who I was without chemical alteration. That was at once terrifying and invigorating in the wake of withdrawal.

 

During that time, I also sought non-pharmaceutical ways of handling the sort of baseline depression and anxiety that is, in varying degrees, part of the human experience. I still employ those techniques today when life starts dealing on me. I believe that is an important thing for anyone to learn as they taper their medications, or deal with the aftermath of rapid discontinuation. Life is a rough room and having tools for mitigating the stress it contains makes it an easier room to navigate.

 

I really hope you see some relief soon. Hang in there,

 

Dave

[getofflex]

22 hours ago, ten0275 said:

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....... And I absolutely understand that any extra stress applied to a dysregulated nervous system is basically petrol on an already raging fire.

 

......

 

Dave

Isn't that the truth!  I have experienced this myself in spades during the past year.  Jennifer 

[Krisseyb]

@ten0275 Wow! Brought me to tears. I am so grateful and thankful for you and others to share your story. It gives hope to those of us that are in the middle (or beginning) stages like myself. It makes me feel like no matter what...I CAN do this!!! Thank you! And I'm so proud and happy for you. I, too, WILL be there someday. 🙂

[ten0275]

@Krisseyb, hi.

 

You brightened my day Thank you for the kind words, and thank you for taking the time to check out my story, that means a lot. And best of all, if you gleaned some inspiration and confidence in your own eventual success in healing from it, it doesn't get much better than that for me.

 

No matter what, you can do this. And you will be there some day

 

Hang in there,

 

Dave

[almuPA]

Congratulations Dave,

I've been reading your thread the whole morning. To say that it is inspiring is an understatment. It is so important for people like us, still suffering with WD, to have an example like you. You said a couple of times in your thread that you are not special and that if you can survive WD anyone can. Well, I think you are exceptional and a very brave person. 

You've inspired me to take my diet very seriously. I am eating healthy already, but I've been delaying big changes. After suffering from ED in the past, eating is such a plessure for me, so it makes me a bit sad an anxious to change that. But I understand that is for my own well-being and that I don't have to be restrictive for my whole life.

I cant thank you enough!!

Big hugs,

 

Almu.

 

[ten0275]

@almuPA, hi.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my thread and for the kind words, it means a lot. Withdrawal is truly one of those things that I would never choose to undertake again, but having gotten through it, I wouldn't trade the lessons I've learned for anything and even further, I'm grateful for the ability to add any amount of inspiration or comfort to those still climbing the mountain. Withdrawal weakened me to a state I'd never been reduced to before, but left me stronger than I've ever been in my life.

 

I'm glad the dietary changes resonated with you. Withdrawal really gave me pause to consider what I consumed on so many levels. And not just food, but what I was putting into my mind as well in the way of media and experience. With both food and media/experience, I am seeking ultimate nutritive value. Does that mean I never go headfirst into a big cake - absolutely not! But I make that the exception and it is an absolute joy when that exception is made!

 

Thanks again for checking in, I wish you the absolute best in your healing!

 

Hang in there,

Dave

[Cocopuffz17]

Great read! I feel very similar to you in the respect that going through withdrawals pushed me to the absolute lowest of lows, but it did make me the strongest I have ever been in my life. FOCUS ON THE POSITIVES, I LOVE it !!!!  Hope all continues to go well with you! Have a great day  

[tsranga]

Hi @ten0275

 

Congratulations on getting off these drugs..and thank you for sharing your experience.

 

I am two years off mirtazapine, and I had a few questions about your symptoms and symptom patterns..

 

My main symptoms now are GI flares (burping, flatulence, multiple BMs), hot/cold dysregulation, and tired but wired feeling at night, all of which affect my sleep (get 4 hrs most days, with occasional bonus nights of 6+ hours and some sleepless nights 2-3 a month).

 

During the day, I have light anxiety, blurry vision, brain fog, occasional dizziness, and most evenings are symptoms free.

 

Did you find that your symptoms post mirtazapine got more more frequent but less intense or shorter in duration? 

 

Given that my IBS/GI issues has been the most chronic symptom, I have been working on healing it, along with a low fodmap diet, which has helped.  I don't generally choose food based on  low histamine, but I make sure I eat fresh, avoid fermented or leftovers.

 

But last night, I had a severe flare which I suspect could be histamine related -

 

I have never reacted to perfumes like that, so I am wondering  if histamine intolerance worsens over time..or of it's something else like mcas..

 

I generally experience the symptoms between 11:30pm and 4am, which is peak mast cell/histamine time.

[Valj]

Your success story is amazing’. So glad to hear.  I have a question. I was on Xanax for a month from Aug-Sept. .25mg. Doc said to just stop it’s a low dose. Then Zoloft for a few weeks then Seroquel.   Do you think I could’ve had withdrawals from Xanax?  Also my doc is stopping the Seroquel says I don’t  have the diagnosis for that medication. I was on 75-50-25 but I did stop 2x for a week at a time and went back on. I’m on 25 mg now for a month but been on for 4 months. She said just stop it’s a low dose.   I was getting a liquid made to taper at a compounding pharmacy was at 20 mg. She isn’t giving me any more refills. Can I just stop it?  I have 30 day supply left of the pills.  If I should cut them?  I’m so confused. 

[ten0275]

On 2/3/2021 at 3:03 PM, Cocopuffz17 said:

Great read! I feel very similar to you in the respect that going through withdrawals pushed me to the absolute lowest of lows, but it did make me the strongest I have ever been in my life. FOCUS ON THE POSITIVES, I LOVE it !!!!  Hope all continues to go well with you! Have a great day  

@Cocopuffz17, hello!

 

I really appreciate you checking in and I have to tell you, your success story made a HUGE impact on me when I read it back in mid-August. You went through the absolute wringer my friend, and came out solid. Scar tissue is absolutely stronger than regular tissue. The strength that comes out of enduring withdrawal is really something unique.

 

Thank you so much again for checking in, and sharing your journey on this site as well.

 

Hang in there,

Dave

[ten0275]

4 hours ago, tsranga said:

Hi @ten0275

 

Congratulations on getting off these drugs..and thank you for sharing your experience.

 

I am two years off mirtazapine, and I had a few questions about your symptoms and symptom patterns..

 

My main symptoms now are GI flares (burping, flatulence, multiple BMs), hot/cold dysregulation, and tired but wired feeling at night, all of which affect my sleep (get 4 hrs most days, with occasional bonus nights of 6+ hours and some sleepless nights 2-3 a month).

 

During the day, I have light anxiety, blurry vision, brain fog, occasional dizziness, and most evenings are symptoms free.

 

Did you find that your symptoms post mirtazapine got more more frequent but less intense or shorter in duration? 

 

Given that my IBS/GI issues has been the most chronic symptom, I have been working on healing it, along with a low fodmap diet, which has helped.  I don't generally choose food based on  low histamine, but I make sure I eat fresh, avoid fermented or leftovers.

 

But last night, I had a severe flare which I suspect could be histamine related -

 

I have never reacted to perfumes like that, so I am wondering  if histamine intolerance worsens over time..or of it's something else like mcas..

 

I generally experience the symptoms between 11:30pm and 4am, which is peak mast cell/histamine time.

 

@tsranga, hi.

 

Thank you for checking in and for the good words, I really appreciate it.

 

You've hit on a topic that is of great interest to me - and is part of my ongoing health exploration. I've healed from the withdrawal of the Mirtazapine. I successfully weaned off. And honestly, I am stronger than I've ever been in my life. That said, I too am dealing with the histamine-related issues and they haven't necessarily gotten better - in fact in some ways, I think they have worsened or become more sensitive.

 

There is definitely something to that histamine "bucket" principal. With me, I wonder if there is actually more of a mast cell degranulation event happening cyclically that releases the histamine amongst other things. When I am having issues, that 11:30pm to 4am period of time is pretty much on the mark for when I am struggling hardest as well. Often on those nights, I will fall asleep at 9pm and wake up around 10:45/11pm with symptoms like heart palpitations, temperature dysregulation, frequent urination, etc.

 

Let me give you an example of one these events that happened to me recently. I'd been slightly less careful with my eating for a couple of weeks - not completely reckless, but I'd been enjoying some foods that usually are on my "no" list. This might have been filling the "bucket" for me. One weekend, I had a flurry of physical exertion. There was a massive snowstorm and I needed to do some intensive snow clean up. In addition, on that same weekend, I did a maximum-weight strength training workout in a sunroom that was in direct sunlight and about 80 degrees. Afterwards, I took a cold shower and meditated in that same sunroom with incense burning. For people with mast cell issues, temperature changes, sunlight, perfumes/scents, and vigorous exercise can absolutely start the ball rolling - and it did. The day after that physical activity, I had a small headache that built into a migraine over the next couple of days. And further, I felt the aforementioned symptoms listed above: wake-ups, frequent urination, heart palpitations, temperature issues, etc.

 

This is ongoing research for me. But there is no doubt in my mind that a huge proportion of people who have used Mirtazapine end up dealing with some level of histamine intolerance in the aftermath. For me, treating it and hanging in there with it is a work in progress. I use a few supplements, particularly ayurvedic (Holy Basil, etc), and also vitamins and minerals to help keep things somewhat in check. I also try to stick to a low-histamine diet, but can't often control my external triggers.

 

I will also note that I have the MTHFR genetic mutation and am a compound heterozygus at that. The MTHFR gene variation also seems prevalent in many who suffer from this.

 

For me, this is absolutely an ongoing part of my health journey. I'm going to post this out on your thread you as well as here for further discussion amongst the community.

 

I hope some of this helps. Thanks again for taking the time to write.

 

Hang in there,

Dave

Edited February 4, 2021 by ten0275

[RickyIsHealing]

Hey dave ! 

been reading through all these comments to try a grasp some hope that i will reach recovery one day , i know you have been active for a while tonight so this may not reach you until tomorrow , either way i was just going to ask a few questions if possible.

i think i am experiencing waves and windows and i think i just left a ten day window , i think?

i have once again found myself back down south and was wondering if there is any big tips you can throw at me to deal with the depressing feelings , the 24-7 simmering anxiety..i cant even eat food with out getting anxious about it ( or take a shower , or go to the shop etc. ) 

Mornings are so hard for me , i find myself trying to get back to sleep just to avoid getting up and being awake , trying to escape this feeling i guess ! mornings are horrible i hate them.

still hard through the days and nights of corse , i am also trying to look for work or maybe returning to my old work after they have spoken to the big bosses upstairs , i am so TERRIFIED about how i am going to feel there , i know i will be anxious and I'm dreading it but i need to support my family as bills do not stop as you know.

praying to get a nice long window soon , preying for this all to be over soon ..and i read that you said throwing stress onto a nervous system like mine is like throwing petrol onto the fire , AINT THAT THE TRUTH ..i cant take anything stress wise ATM , my body and mind just goes out of control and spirals , but the main of it is i feel guilty because i cant support my partner and kids , little things like i cant go to the shop to get them some sweets or crisps because we haven't the money due to me not being able to work , i feel horrible about it all ..starting to question if i will ever truly heal ! god bless us all and keep fighting guys !!! 

[ten0275]

@RickyIsHealing

Thanks for checking in, man.

 

Congratulations on your 10 day window! Sorry you left it, but remember what it felt like because you'll be going back to that again once the current wave subsides. I know I was so grateful for the windows and waves pattern because it was a palpable way for me to know healing was happening.

 

Mornings are always hard - that anxiety you're talking about, I remember it well. The cortisol cycle rubs right up against the nervous system dysregulation and just makes it all the more intense. It makes everything tremendously hard.

 

My best advice, besides reminding yourself over and over that you are experiencing withdrawal and it will subside, is to try to take the days one at a time - take the moments one at a time. As cliche as it is, that "day at a time" thing dragged me through a lot of them. When you're thinking 10km down the road instead of 50m down the field, it makes a big difference in terms of that "overwhelmed" feeling we call can get in the longer days of withdrawal. So really try honing it down to moment by moment. Need to go to the shop - focus on that alone, you just need to get to the shop. After that, need to run another errand, think of that one errand only. I found that when I let my view get too far down the line I became completely overwhelmed. That doesn't mean don't plan for the future - it just means in the day-to-day grind, grind through each moment as it comes singularly.

 

And totally, totally understand the guilt feelings about not being able to support your partner or kids. I was housebound and bedridden myself for awhile and was taking a leave of absence from work for which I did not get paid. You're going to have to forgive yourself there, my friend. This is something that has happened to you. Right? You didn't ask for it. You likely wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy. And you are battling absolute forces of suffering on a daily basis. You may not be financially bringing it on for your family and loved ones right now, but it sounds to me like at the very least you are showing up. You're there, you're loving and caring, heck you care enough to feel that guilt. That says a ton. Forgive yourself the lesser activity in these harder days. When you're on the other side of this, you'll make it count.

 

Hang in there my friend,

Dave

[Cocopuffz17]

3 hours ago, ten0275 said:

@Cocopuffz17, hello!

 

I really appreciate you checking in and I have to tell you, your success story made a HUGE impact on me when I read it back in mid-August. You went through the absolute wringer my friend, and came out solid. Scar tissue is absolutely stronger than regular tissue. The strength that comes out of enduring withdrawal is really something unique.

 

Thank you so much again for checking in, and sharing your journey on this site as well.

 

Hang in there,

Dave

 

I am so glad to hear that !!! Ya, it was a tough go....but I leaned on all the other individuals who went through it before me and shared their story's!  Absolutely it is!! 

 

You are welcome! You will give many people the hope they need as well as you have already seen by the replies! 

[Altostrata]

On 2/4/2021 at 8:48 AM, Valj said:

Your success story is amazing’. So glad to hear.  I have a question. I was on Xanax for a month from Aug-Sept. .25mg. Doc said to just stop it’s a low dose. Then Zoloft for a few weeks then Seroquel.   Do you think I could’ve had withdrawals from Xanax?  Also my doc is stopping the Seroquel says I don’t  have the diagnosis for that medication. I was on 75-50-25 but I did stop 2x for a week at a time and went back on. I’m on 25 mg now for a month but been on for 4 months. She said just stop it’s a low dose.   I was getting a liquid made to taper at a compounding pharmacy was at 20 mg. She isn’t giving me any more refills. Can I just stop it?  I have 30 day supply left of the pills.  If I should cut them?  I’m so confused. 

 

@Valj please post your questions about your own situation in your Introductions topic. Discussing them here would derail ten0275's success story.

[Barney]

Way to go Dave keep up the good work    you are a inspiration  it hits home  barney