Moderator Emeritus Songbird Posted November 15, 2021 Author Moderator Emeritus Share Posted November 15, 2021 Hi @Cheeky and @Carmie - thanks for thinking of me! I am doing okay, but haven't done much tapering. My body feels every tiny 0.1 mg drop and it takes months to stabilise, in particular I have difficulty falling asleep. I also have some patches of mild anxiety and low mood that comes and goes. I can't put it all down to withdrawal because there are some considerable life stressors at the moment with the pandemic and all. I've just dropped to 2.3mg citalopram. At this rate it will take me many more years to get down to zero, but I need to accept that this is the speed (ultra-slow) that I need to go. Hi @Nemet I think cysts are quite common, and guess mine were more likely related to age and menopause than withdrawal. Congrats for being free of psych drugs! It would be good if you could update your signature to show this. 2001–2002 paroxetine 2003 citalopram 2004-2008 paroxetine (various failed tapers) 2008 paroxetine slow taper down to 2016 Aug off paroxetine2016 citalopram May 20mg Oct 15mg … slow taper down2018 citalopram 13 Feb 4.6mg 15 Mar 4.4mg 29 Apr 4.2mg 6 Jul 4.1mg 17 Aug 4.0mg 18 Nov 3.8mg 2019 15 Mar 3.6mg 21 May 3.4mg 26 Dec 3.2mg 2020 19 Feb 3.0mg 19 Jul 2.9mg 16 Sep 2.8mg 25 Oct 2.7mg 23 Oct 2.6mg 24 Dec 2.5mg 2021 29 Aug 2.4mg 15 Nov 2.3mg Link to comment
Moderator Emeritus ChessieCat Posted November 15, 2021 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted November 15, 2021 Hi Songbird, Good to hear from you. Every little bit reduce is heading in the right direction. And 2.3mg is a lot less than 20mg! * NO LONGER ACTIVE on SA * MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: (6 year taper) 0mg Pristiq on 13th November 2021 ADs since ~1992: 25+ years - 1 unknown, Prozac (muscle weakness), Zoloft; citalopram (pooped out) CTed (very sick for 2.5 wks a few months after); Pristiq: 50mg 2012, 100mg beg 2013 (Serotonin Toxicity) Tapering from Oct 2015 - 13 Nov 2021 LAST DOSE 0.0025mg Post 0 updates start here My tapering program My Intro (goes to tapering graph) VIDEO: Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome and its Management Link to comment
Moderator Emeritus Songbird Posted November 15, 2021 Author Moderator Emeritus Share Posted November 15, 2021 13 minutes ago, ChessieCat said: Hi Songbird, Good to hear from you. Every little bit reduce is heading in the right direction. And 2.3mg is a lot less than 20mg! Hi Chessie, Yes, it's good to be on a low dose, and still heading in the right direction! 2001–2002 paroxetine 2003 citalopram 2004-2008 paroxetine (various failed tapers) 2008 paroxetine slow taper down to 2016 Aug off paroxetine2016 citalopram May 20mg Oct 15mg … slow taper down2018 citalopram 13 Feb 4.6mg 15 Mar 4.4mg 29 Apr 4.2mg 6 Jul 4.1mg 17 Aug 4.0mg 18 Nov 3.8mg 2019 15 Mar 3.6mg 21 May 3.4mg 26 Dec 3.2mg 2020 19 Feb 3.0mg 19 Jul 2.9mg 16 Sep 2.8mg 25 Oct 2.7mg 23 Oct 2.6mg 24 Dec 2.5mg 2021 29 Aug 2.4mg 15 Nov 2.3mg Link to comment
Cheeky Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Hi Songbird, it’s great to read that your doing better. Good in you for getting to such a low dose 👍 1995 started Paxil 20mg slowly increasing to 50mg 2014 I decided to tapper myself not knowing how too and crashed , DR added 50mg of Seroquel Through the years made many mistakes tapering Started Tapering Both drugs at the same time 7.5% per month Paxil 9% Seroquel doing daily micro-taper Guided by Mark Horowitz 31/3/24 Paxil 10.31mg 31/3/24 Seroquel 9.9mg Link to comment
CloudyToday Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Hi @Songbird, I just read about your journey. I understand that at some point you cross tapered onto citalopram. I think I'm currently in a similar situation, where I hit a wall at 5.4mg of paroxetine (got severe nausea from this drop). I updosed to 6mg but it didn't help. Could you please share some details about your cross taper? Specifically, what dose of paroxetine you were at before the bridge, and how you did it? I'm just trying to gather as much info as I can before deciding on a plan. thank you 🙏 2017 - 2018 Lexapro (CT, no withdrawals) 2018 - 2019 Zoloft (CT, no withdrawals) 2/15/21 - paxil 20mg 5/1/22 - started fast tapter, 10mg 3 weeks, 5mg 3 weeks, 0mg 2 days. 7/1/22 - start of withdrawals, dizziness, nausea, loss of appetite, shaky. Reinstated 10mg 8/1/22 - 9mg - anxiety, panic attacks, sleep disorders (4-6 hours) 9/1/22 - 8mg - anxiety, panic attacks are gone. Sleep back to normal. Still struggling with appetite. Sporadic abdominal cramps 10/10/22 - 7.2 mg 11/10/22 - 6.6 mg - Tinnitus started after 2 weeks. Nausea is gone and appetite is slowly returning. 12/12/22 - 6 mg 1/11/23- 5.4 mg 1/13/23- 6 mg (up dosed) nausea is back in full force 5/9/23 - changed to home made liquid (dissolves 20mg in 20ml) - 5.9ml supplements: magnesium 300mg, taurine 2g, fish oil, vitamin E, probiotics, bioactive milk peptides, L-theanine Link to comment
Rosetta Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 How are you, Songbird? Well, I hope! 🧚🏻♀️Rosetta https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/16629-rosetta-ct-may-2011-too-fast-taper-feb-2017/?page=25 2001-2011 Celexa 10 mg raised to 40 mg then 60 mg over this time period May 2011 OB Doctor's Cold switch Celexa 60 mg to 10 mg Zoloft sertraline (baby born) 2012-2016 - Doctors raised dose of Zoloft up to 150 mg 2016 - Xanax prescribed - as needed - 0.5 mg about every 3 days (bad reaction) 2016 - Stopped Xanax Late 2016- Began (too fast) taper of Zoloft Early 2017 - Trazodone prescribed for bedtime (doseage unknown) Feb 2017 - Completed taper/stopped Trazodone Drug free since Feb 2017 2017 - Unisom otc very rarely for sleep Link to comment
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