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Hey there @Acsr! Thanks for checking in. I'm doing as well as I can given the w/d. One year free of meds and starting to have some good days here and there where I feel maybe 60% of normal. 

 

But yeah, check out my comment here about my doctor and therapist. They're both great. 

I'll PM you links to my health coach and "anti-aging" doc. 

 

Wishing you the best, my friend! Stay in touch. 

-SSRIs starting at age 16 - around 1996. Tried just about every one available for a period of a few years. Stabilized on Zoloft. Have been on it since about 2003.
-Added .5mg Haldol for Tourette's and OCD in 2005
-Tapered in fall/winter of 2012, got off of Zoloft completely. Think I went too fast. Long term withdrawal symptoms persisted for months, to the point that I went back to a 100mg dose.
-Found this site, tapered using the 10% plan in 2015. It was really rough. Went back on Zoloft at 100mg.
-Found a great therapist in 2017, learned new self care skills. Started tapering again. Got down to 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol by late 2017 (? - memories a little fuzzy these days)
- Taper got rough again. Held dose at 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol through early 2018. Wife had a baby. Was putting in a lot of hours at work. Had a "poop out". Brain fog, debilitating fatigue, and the works.
- Consulted with a health coach who specializes in mental health and psychiatric drug withdrawal. Developed a plan that involved hormones and supplements. Did a fairly rapid taper on Zoloft and Haldol over the course of 1 year. Felt awful, but it was manageable with the help of the hormones/supplements and frequent visits to my therapist. Psychiatric drug free as of 4/2020. I have about 10 months off of Haldol now, and 6 months off of Zoloft. Battling long term, protracted withdrawal symptoms, and going through h*ll, but so far I've managed to (just barely) keep my high paying job and maintain my relationship with my wife. (Updated 10/2020)
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Having a pretty intense wave the past 4-5 days. Weird new symptom where looking at a screen makes me nauseous and gives me vertigo. That’s a new one. Not good for someone who works in front of a computer. But whatever happens, happens. If I can’t work for awhile or have to take a step back from my career, it’ll be fine. 
 

On that point, can I just say how much it’s been helping to practice acceptance and mindfulness at the encouragement of my therapist? 
 

Actually, switching to a low histamine diet + practicing mindfulness and acceptance have probably helped more than any supplements or hormones or anything else that I’ve done so far. 
 

Ok, too much screen time. Getting dizzy. Have a great rest of your holiday weekend US and UK friends. 

-SSRIs starting at age 16 - around 1996. Tried just about every one available for a period of a few years. Stabilized on Zoloft. Have been on it since about 2003.
-Added .5mg Haldol for Tourette's and OCD in 2005
-Tapered in fall/winter of 2012, got off of Zoloft completely. Think I went too fast. Long term withdrawal symptoms persisted for months, to the point that I went back to a 100mg dose.
-Found this site, tapered using the 10% plan in 2015. It was really rough. Went back on Zoloft at 100mg.
-Found a great therapist in 2017, learned new self care skills. Started tapering again. Got down to 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol by late 2017 (? - memories a little fuzzy these days)
- Taper got rough again. Held dose at 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol through early 2018. Wife had a baby. Was putting in a lot of hours at work. Had a "poop out". Brain fog, debilitating fatigue, and the works.
- Consulted with a health coach who specializes in mental health and psychiatric drug withdrawal. Developed a plan that involved hormones and supplements. Did a fairly rapid taper on Zoloft and Haldol over the course of 1 year. Felt awful, but it was manageable with the help of the hormones/supplements and frequent visits to my therapist. Psychiatric drug free as of 4/2020. I have about 10 months off of Haldol now, and 6 months off of Zoloft. Battling long term, protracted withdrawal symptoms, and going through h*ll, but so far I've managed to (just barely) keep my high paying job and maintain my relationship with my wife. (Updated 10/2020)
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Still feeling pretty rough, but I'm hanging in there. Not going to let this beat me. I'm honestly not sure if this is just a random wave or if I maybe forgot to take my pregnenolone one day or something and it threw me out of whack. I'm ridiculously sensitive right now. Every little thing throws me off balance. Managed to make it through work yesterday after thinking all weekend that I couldn't do it and that I was finally going to have to quit my job. Symptoms let up quite a bit in the evening last night, as they tend to do even on really bad days. Cortisol, ya know? Today I'm feeling a sense of doom, intense fatigue, DP/DR, OCD, inner anguish and restlessness, and just weird, jumbled thoughts. Feel like I'm going a little crazy right now. Leaning on my wife for support quite a bit. I know it's tough on her, and I'm so grateful to have her and my son to keep me going. Pushing through work, although I'm at about 10% of normal productivity. It's a beautiful day, so I'm working from our porch and taking lots of breaks to walk and ground in the grass and chug green tea. In the past, I would have tried to change something to feel better; supplements etc. But I've destabilized myself over and over by doing that and finally learned my lesson. Doing my best to keep everything as stable as possible and practice impeccable self care. Doesn't come naturally to me after so many years of treating myself like garbage. Cheers, everyone! Have a great Wednesday. We've got this 🙂 

-SSRIs starting at age 16 - around 1996. Tried just about every one available for a period of a few years. Stabilized on Zoloft. Have been on it since about 2003.
-Added .5mg Haldol for Tourette's and OCD in 2005
-Tapered in fall/winter of 2012, got off of Zoloft completely. Think I went too fast. Long term withdrawal symptoms persisted for months, to the point that I went back to a 100mg dose.
-Found this site, tapered using the 10% plan in 2015. It was really rough. Went back on Zoloft at 100mg.
-Found a great therapist in 2017, learned new self care skills. Started tapering again. Got down to 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol by late 2017 (? - memories a little fuzzy these days)
- Taper got rough again. Held dose at 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol through early 2018. Wife had a baby. Was putting in a lot of hours at work. Had a "poop out". Brain fog, debilitating fatigue, and the works.
- Consulted with a health coach who specializes in mental health and psychiatric drug withdrawal. Developed a plan that involved hormones and supplements. Did a fairly rapid taper on Zoloft and Haldol over the course of 1 year. Felt awful, but it was manageable with the help of the hormones/supplements and frequent visits to my therapist. Psychiatric drug free as of 4/2020. I have about 10 months off of Haldol now, and 6 months off of Zoloft. Battling long term, protracted withdrawal symptoms, and going through h*ll, but so far I've managed to (just barely) keep my high paying job and maintain my relationship with my wife. (Updated 10/2020)
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I’ve been reading a bunch of other posts on here today and figured I might as well check in, even though I don’t tend to get much conversation on my thread. Useful for me as a way to track progress over time if nothing else. 
 

I made it through that wave that I mentioned last time. Had a really great window afterwards as a matter of fact. It lasted nearly a week. 
 

Then about 2 weeks ago (or something like that? Time is so fuzzy right now) I forgot to take my cialis for a couple of days and noticed that I felt even better. Aha! It had been over stimulating me I think. 
 

So I just decided I wouldn’t take it anymore. No one be has withdrawal issues with cialis right? WRONG. Oops. 
 

About 10 days later my sleep started getting really bad and my groin and testicles started aching. Went to the doctor just in case there was actually something going on. There wasn’t. He said it’s a w/d symptom (again, so grateful to have a family doc who understands). 
 

Tried reinstating it. Nope. Full blown panic attack with some mild akathisia thrown in for good measure. 
 

Stopped it again. 
 

Genitals are aching l, burning and tingling like crazy. Sometimes it feels like I have restless leg syndrome down there. Or I feel like I want to pleasure myself just to release the weird feelings down there. 
 

Having waves of panic, skin burning, and just feeling unwell in general. 
 

My therapist mentioned that it sounds like kindling (again, so grateful to also have a therapist who understands this stuff). So bizarre to get these effects from cialis. I’ve taken it in the past and stopped and started with no issues. 
 

I know that reinstating a tiny dose is a possibility, but since it’s not a psychiatric drug, I’m hoping that maybe if I push through, things will just settle out relatively quickly. Knock on wood. I’m hope I’m not being naive or setting myself up for failure. 
 

Anyway, I’ll keep you posted! 

-SSRIs starting at age 16 - around 1996. Tried just about every one available for a period of a few years. Stabilized on Zoloft. Have been on it since about 2003.
-Added .5mg Haldol for Tourette's and OCD in 2005
-Tapered in fall/winter of 2012, got off of Zoloft completely. Think I went too fast. Long term withdrawal symptoms persisted for months, to the point that I went back to a 100mg dose.
-Found this site, tapered using the 10% plan in 2015. It was really rough. Went back on Zoloft at 100mg.
-Found a great therapist in 2017, learned new self care skills. Started tapering again. Got down to 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol by late 2017 (? - memories a little fuzzy these days)
- Taper got rough again. Held dose at 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol through early 2018. Wife had a baby. Was putting in a lot of hours at work. Had a "poop out". Brain fog, debilitating fatigue, and the works.
- Consulted with a health coach who specializes in mental health and psychiatric drug withdrawal. Developed a plan that involved hormones and supplements. Did a fairly rapid taper on Zoloft and Haldol over the course of 1 year. Felt awful, but it was manageable with the help of the hormones/supplements and frequent visits to my therapist. Psychiatric drug free as of 4/2020. I have about 10 months off of Haldol now, and 6 months off of Zoloft. Battling long term, protracted withdrawal symptoms, and going through h*ll, but so far I've managed to (just barely) keep my high paying job and maintain my relationship with my wife. (Updated 10/2020)
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Oh, one question while I'm here... I've definitely hypersensitized myself at this point. Minor changes to supplements, meds, or even diet cause extreme reactions. I chalk it up to being foolish and changing too many things too fast over the past year or so. 

 

But yeah, as I posted above, just stopping cialis of all things has caused as pretty extreme reaction. And I mentioned before that I've been eating vegan. I tried eating a piece of meat and got violently ill. Then a couple of weeks later, I tried eating some goat cheese and had the same result. I've accidentally missed a dose of one supplement or another and thrown myself out of whack for days or longer.

 

I am seriously hypersensitized right now. Every little thing seems to be throwing me for a loop.

What do you guys recommend for stabilizing my CNS now that I'm in this situation? I mean other than just making no/very slow changes and keeping everything super stable?

Has anyone ended up with a hypersensitized nervous system and managed to fix it who could share their experience? 

-SSRIs starting at age 16 - around 1996. Tried just about every one available for a period of a few years. Stabilized on Zoloft. Have been on it since about 2003.
-Added .5mg Haldol for Tourette's and OCD in 2005
-Tapered in fall/winter of 2012, got off of Zoloft completely. Think I went too fast. Long term withdrawal symptoms persisted for months, to the point that I went back to a 100mg dose.
-Found this site, tapered using the 10% plan in 2015. It was really rough. Went back on Zoloft at 100mg.
-Found a great therapist in 2017, learned new self care skills. Started tapering again. Got down to 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol by late 2017 (? - memories a little fuzzy these days)
- Taper got rough again. Held dose at 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol through early 2018. Wife had a baby. Was putting in a lot of hours at work. Had a "poop out". Brain fog, debilitating fatigue, and the works.
- Consulted with a health coach who specializes in mental health and psychiatric drug withdrawal. Developed a plan that involved hormones and supplements. Did a fairly rapid taper on Zoloft and Haldol over the course of 1 year. Felt awful, but it was manageable with the help of the hormones/supplements and frequent visits to my therapist. Psychiatric drug free as of 4/2020. I have about 10 months off of Haldol now, and 6 months off of Zoloft. Battling long term, protracted withdrawal symptoms, and going through h*ll, but so far I've managed to (just barely) keep my high paying job and maintain my relationship with my wife. (Updated 10/2020)
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Wow, it turns out that at work friend has been through protracted A/D withdrawal! She and I had chatted in somewhat vague terms about chronic health issues for quite awhile. But as we got to know each other a bit better, she shared that her issues had been caused by A/D withdrawal. She dealt with CNS hypersensitization just like what I'm going through. And she's familiar with this site! Amazing to run into someone IRL who has been through a pretty severe case of PAWS and made it through to the other side. Really encouraging to me, because she's doing very well these days. 

-SSRIs starting at age 16 - around 1996. Tried just about every one available for a period of a few years. Stabilized on Zoloft. Have been on it since about 2003.
-Added .5mg Haldol for Tourette's and OCD in 2005
-Tapered in fall/winter of 2012, got off of Zoloft completely. Think I went too fast. Long term withdrawal symptoms persisted for months, to the point that I went back to a 100mg dose.
-Found this site, tapered using the 10% plan in 2015. It was really rough. Went back on Zoloft at 100mg.
-Found a great therapist in 2017, learned new self care skills. Started tapering again. Got down to 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol by late 2017 (? - memories a little fuzzy these days)
- Taper got rough again. Held dose at 50mg Zoloft, .4mg Haldol through early 2018. Wife had a baby. Was putting in a lot of hours at work. Had a "poop out". Brain fog, debilitating fatigue, and the works.
- Consulted with a health coach who specializes in mental health and psychiatric drug withdrawal. Developed a plan that involved hormones and supplements. Did a fairly rapid taper on Zoloft and Haldol over the course of 1 year. Felt awful, but it was manageable with the help of the hormones/supplements and frequent visits to my therapist. Psychiatric drug free as of 4/2020. I have about 10 months off of Haldol now, and 6 months off of Zoloft. Battling long term, protracted withdrawal symptoms, and going through h*ll, but so far I've managed to (just barely) keep my high paying job and maintain my relationship with my wife. (Updated 10/2020)
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1 hour ago, Michigan said:

Wow, it turns out that at work friend has been through protracted A/D withdrawal! She and I had chatted in somewhat vague terms about chronic health issues for quite awhile. But as we got to know each other a bit better, she shared that her issues had been caused by A/D withdrawal. She dealt with CNS hypersensitization just like what I'm going through. And she's familiar with this site! Amazing to run into someone IRL who has been through a pretty severe case of PAWS and made it through to the other side. Really encouraging to me, because she's doing very well these days. 

Hi ! 
mum very hypersensitive as well after Weaned off an AD and I’m still on a benzo and an antipsychotic…. I have Lyme as well. I was expecting to get better by now to start tapering the others meds but I became bedridden… what I’m learning is polyvagal theory amd trying to send safety messages to my brain. I’m trying to pacing and introduce very slowly activities. Have a look in polyvagal theory . I don’t know if I would be able to heal on this 2 meds but I’m afraid of tapering due to hypersensitivity… I wish I can go back walking , gaining some energy to help myself in the future. 

My hormones are out of wack too. Can you pass me your doctor details ? 
I hope you find some answers , let as know I will share my journey as well as soon as I see improvements ( if they happen…) 

 

stay strong 💪🏼 

2017 /2019 75 mg Protheadene weaned off October 2019 (one year tapper) 

2018 until now 0,5 sedoxil at 7pm 

                           0,50 quietipine at 23 pm

 supplement 

vit. C 1000mg 

probiotic 

curcuma 

digestive enzymes

 Coezime 10 60 mg

nadh 10 mg 

 

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14 minutes ago, Acsr said:

Hi ! 
mum very hypersensitive as well after Weaned off an AD and I’m still on a benzo and an antipsychotic…. I have Lyme as well. I was expecting to get better by now to start tapering the others meds but I became bedridden… what I’m learning is polyvagal theory amd trying to send safety messages to my brain. I’m trying to pacing and introduce very slowly activities. Have a look in polyvagal theory . I don’t know if I would be able to heal on this 2 meds but I’m afraid of tapering due to hypersensitivity… I wish I can go back walking , gaining some energy to help myself in the future. 

My hormones are out of wack too. Can you pass me your doctor details ? 
I hope you find some answers , let as know I will share my journey as well as soon as I see improvements ( if they happen…) 

 

stay strong 💪🏼 

Oh and look at Anrs rewire 

2017 /2019 75 mg Protheadene weaned off October 2019 (one year tapper) 

2018 until now 0,5 sedoxil at 7pm 

                           0,50 quietipine at 23 pm

 supplement 

vit. C 1000mg 

probiotic 

curcuma 

digestive enzymes

 Coezime 10 60 mg

nadh 10 mg 

 

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