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ryan1982

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Hey all-

Hope everyone is doing as well as can be today. One question I have is around how people manage to cope during a long wave? In my head, I have a lot of trouble not looking down the road 1-6 months to fun events/trips with friends and family and worry that I won’t be able to make them. Or if I do go, it’ll be miserable. 
 

Does anyone else deal with this? I’m really grappling with putting my social life on hold at the moment and worried I’ll miss big events with my wife and kids if I don’t get better soon...and I feel like that puts even more pressure on myself to feel better. The cycle continues. 
 

I welcome any thoughts or feedback!

2005- 2008: Lorazepam (max dose- 1 MG daily)

2008- 2016: Lexapro (max dose-10 MG daily)

January 2017- March 2017- Pristiq (max dose- 100 MG daily)

April 2017- June 2017: Trintellix (max dose- 10 MG)

July 2017- October 2017:  Lexapro (max dose-10 MG daily)

November 2017- April 2018- Luvox (max dose- 100 MG)

May 2018- Zoloft (max dose- 18.75)

5/28/18- 3 MG Lexapro, 6/3/18- 3 MG Lexapro, 6/7/18- 3.5 MG Lexapro, 6/13/18- 4 MG Lexapro, 6/21/18- 4.5 MG Lexapro, 6/28/18- 3/29/21- 4 MG Lexapro, 3/30/21- Present- 3.8 MG Lexapro

**Bad Wave Caused by Trileptal 150 MG (one pill) in December '20 and Low Dose Naltrexone .12 MG (one pill) in April '21**

 

"The Journey is The Reward"

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Magyar

Angol

Hello. our situation is quite similar. same drug same problem. unfortunately I do not know a solution. actually my every day is a suffering. i don't enjoy anything i don't want anything. I suffer at work every day due to lack of mood. my psychologist tells me to flirt. sitting alone at home is what goes well. hold on. I wish you a lot of strength

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On 5/16/2021 at 2:43 AM, ryan1982 said:

Hey all-

Hope everyone is doing as well as can be today. One question I have is around how people manage to cope during a long wave? In my head, I have a lot of trouble not looking down the road 1-6 months to fun events/trips with friends and family and worry that I won’t be able to make them. Or if I do go, it’ll be miserable. 
 

Does anyone else deal with this? I’m really grappling with putting my social life on hold at the moment and worried I’ll miss big events with my wife and kids if I don’t get better soon...and I feel like that puts even more pressure on myself to feel better. The cycle continues. 
 

I welcome any thoughts or feedback!

Yeah I worry about that too. It’s the worst going there and facing everyone when you feel so bad . Unfortunately we have have to go with the flow and when I’m good I make up for it with my family. My social friends don’t know what’s happening to me as I keep it private so I don’t have to hear there opinions. If we hade Cancer we could tell people we’re no feeling well and can’t attend and everyone would be supportive, we just have to fake it til we make it.

1995 started Paxil 20mg slowly increasing to 50mg until 2014

-2014 I decided to tapper myself not knowing how too and crashed , DR added 50mg Seraquel

-2015 tried tapering again and crashed

Seroquel Taper

2/11/16 43mg  1/09/17  37.5mg  10/03/10 36.25mg. 17/3/19 35mg 26/3/19 33.75mg  4/4/19 32.5mg  21/4/19 30mg

16/7/19 28.75mg  5/8/19 27.5mg. 19/8/19 25mg   4/8/20 23mg 18/8/20 22.5mg  12/10/20 18.25mg  10/1/21 15mg  3/8/21 UPDOSE 16mg

2/2/23 15.5mg

Paxil Taper

2/11/16 40mg 12/10/17 37mg  28/10/17 36mg  10/1/18. 35mg  24/05/18 33mg  28/8/18 31mg 16/12/18 30mg 20/10/19 29mg  17/11/19 28mg 7/1/20  27mg 12/2/20  26mg 7/3 /20 25mg  11/4/20 24mg 4/5/20 23mg  5/6/20 22mg 23/6/20 21mg 15/7/20 20mg  Started Brassmonkey  Slide Method 14/5/23 19.70

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