☼ oskcajga: Partial recovery: SSRI/SNRI withdrawal and adverse reaction

[India]

Maybe OSK got better?

[BigPharmaStinks]

Hi @oskcajga. Hope you are still with us as I know you were suffering enormously. My symptoms, especially the mental and cognitive ones are almost identical to yours and @IHadPassion's. What's even more striking is that all three of us share similar histories of pursuing careers in academia. Given the dismal state you two were left in from a similar drug combo I was on, I would be more than grateful to hear how you are doing now. I am supposed to commence MD-PhD training at a prestigious institution this upcoming summer, but given that my cognition (blank mind; difficulty speaking and writing; severely degraded working memory, short-term memory and long-term memory; loss of critical thinking and information processing ability, etc.) has hardly improved since this withdrawal ordeal started for me - with the exception of a few windows of improvements every few weeks or months lasting anywhere from several hours to couple of days - I am starting to wonder if it is physiologically possible for me to pursue my childhood ambitions in medicine and research this upcoming summer. Any glitter of hope would be appreciated for all of us dealing with the anhedonia, apathy, depersonalization, cognitive deterioration, squeezing head pressure, burning brain, etc. :). I wish you and all others recovering from this iatrogenic CNS injury continued healing!

[Pepms]

Hi @oskcajga, ! I saw your posts regarding WD symptoms and wanted to ask you about the numb feet ,tingling , I started having those 1 month ago after 2 months of quitting lexapro, how long did you have them? How did it resolve ? Thanks !!