Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome | Medications, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

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  1. I've been using sertraline for a while and this happened to me at one point, I couldn't get my pescription for almost a week because my GP took a while to approve the order. I literally couldn't move without almost falling over and had to go home from school multiple times because I was so nauseous.

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  2. "Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome" otherwise known as withdrawals from addiction. Would you call stopping an opiate "Heroin Discontinuation syndrome" ???
    The pharmaceuticals companies' invented "medical" term to make drug addiction sound less serious. Never reinstate the full dose if youve been off a considerable amount of time! This can scramble the nervous system. I'm still living with the effects 13 years later. See my video "antidepressants damaged my nervous system".

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  3. I just started mirtazapine 2 weeks ago. Prior to that I'd been on paroxetine for over a year, which hasn't been helpful btw. I'm not even going through depression but my psychiatrist prescribed it to me. And now I'm going through ADS. I don't even know if I could stat again and tapper paroxetine while taking mirtazapine. Are the two compatible or is the combination dangerous? Because quitting paroxetine just like that is giving me awful symptoms, it keeps getting worse, I'm going crazy. I'm considering quitting mirtazapine as well since I only felt good for a couple of days and I don't feel like I need it anyway. I don't want to have to go through that again when I stop taking it. Wish I was never put on antidepressants in the first place.

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  7. Sertraline has really messed me up. I stopped 6 years ago and my life went downhill fast. I'm going to kill myself soon I know it. Nobody can help and everything I've tried over the years has made me worse. I can't eat or sleep. My moods just change hourly, from rage to sadness to fear. I don't know how I've lasted this long but I've really lost the will to live now.

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  9. I would wake up in the middle of th night feeling rage. I had to keep taking that crap daily until it was down to the crumbs. Still had brain zaps. I'll never again take that garbage

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  10. I’ve been on Venlafaxine since 2007. I’ve run out of meds before and had all these symptoms. Brain zaps, crying, nightmares and fearing someone creeping up the stairs. Ugh, awful. Now, I’ve halved my dose and I’m fine up to now.

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  11. Long time Bupreion and Prozac user I could function but felt really controlled even silly at times. I asked my MD if and when I could stop taking them and was told I might be worse being off of them. I spent some time reading and watching videos on reducing the Bupreion (250 mg?). What I found that six weeks was the recommended time to reduce by mg's. I was taking two separate mg's that allowed me to reduce safely over nine weeks. I feel a lot better though I still take 40mg of Prozac, stopping it produced an easy to anger at times. Back on it and my mood is more relaxed. However I have a real problem sleeping. It's always been there but much more pronounced. I'm taking 15mg of meletonan which gives me four hours of sleep. I'm slowly getting better but I'm tired half way through my day.

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  13. Mild? pff, I had to go to the hospital bc i was so nauseated & it felt like my brain was being squeezed (hard to explain). It felt like my vision was going out. It was horrible. I was so sick, absolute worst thing Ive ever experienced. & all because I couldnt afford my medicine, thanks US healthcare!

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  15. was on venlafaxine before switching to duloxetine. i would start to get this as short as like 3-4 hours after i miss a dose, was horrible, although i think of it more as withdrawals

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  16. Sad for all of us. Been on psychiatric drugs since i was 18 for severe childhood trauma. Now at 60 I've spent the last 5 years getting off of all the drugs i've been left on.

    These drugs were never approved for long-term use. It was unethical imo for the plethora of psychiatrists i saw over 35 years to have not only continued to prescribe them, but to experiment with "stacking" while my brain battled with the myriad of side effects of everything from antipsychotics to seizure medications.

    And i was failing a child in the process.

    None of my prescribers ever asked about the long-term effects on my body, my child, my lack of processing my trauma (because i was a zombie) and lack of forward progress. No evaluations were done. Only prescribing and represcribing.

    And being damaged and lacking any advocacy i lacked autonomy and obediently did whatever the current prescriber dreamed up for me to psyche out on for the next 4-8 weeks before tweaking the cocktail again. I thought these people were saving my life! They were STEALING IT!

    Looking into the origins of psychiatric treatment really did it for me. Changed my life. Even our doctors have no effing clue about the origins of big pharma. We should all know. Open your eyes. Check out The Truth About Cancer. Org…

    Get away from your dependency on western medical practice. It keeps you a PATIENT. A cured client is no client at all.

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  17. I'm trying to wean off paroxetine. I've been on it for 24 years. I have most of these symptoms. I feel awful most of the time. Is it really possible for me to get off this drug? I am doing a slow reduction but I think I need to go even slower.

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  20. I had this badly. It was awful, I was ill for weeks. That wasn't even a complete stop of the meds, it was a reduction of the dose. It was terrifying.

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  21. I landed up in hospital for a week with the worst vertigo condition! No doctor made the connection. A fortune was spent on MRIs and different tests that led to no answers. When I got home, I started doing my own research and came to this conclusion! The symptoms carried on for three months. I will never touch an anti-depressant again! I've changed my life style. I exercise, eat healthily and keep my head occupied with positive thoughts.

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  22. I came off my SSRI slowly and under Dr's care – yet, 2 days after my last dose I went into a downward spiral that lasted 3months. It was the most horrendous time of my life – the symptoms were so chronic that after 3months my Dr and I agreed that I would start the meds again. More information to patients is needed – this is way more common than reported and for many it lasts way longer than the average given. More research is needed too. A painful and debilitating experience!!

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  23. this has happened to me a few times with Venlafaxine because my insurance wouldn't approve my refill until a certain date. Got "brain zaps" I'm not sure if I would really describe it as zaps but just kind of a head rush or dizziness that would happen when I blinked or moved my head. I was also very emotional and would cry at about anything or be easily irritated. I even got these effects after slowly going down on the dose and discontinuing after weaning off the lowest dose. I really don't like that part of antidepressants but after trying no medication I am restarting on new ones.

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  24. I was on lexapro/escitalopam for 6 years. 20mg. I tapered down from 20 to 10 to 5 to 3.5 to taking tinier and tinier pieces over the course of a month. Noticed no symptoms besides brain zaps until I completely got off of them 4 days ago. It is ansolute hell. I have disabling migraines, dizziness, anger, depression, crying spells, anxiety and tremors, exessive sweating, brain fog, fatigue, this sense of looking at the world through a pane of glass.. depersonalization to the point where I feel like Im dreaming. Driving is dangerous as looking left to right is required and causes extreme electric shock like feelings in my brain and dizziness which affects judgement. Numbness in my arms and legs, extremely cold, nauseous almost all the time. No appetite, can't handle any kind of smell. I've withdrawn from some hard drugs before and this is literally worse.

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  25. After developing serotonin syndrome I have been taken off 150mgs of Zoloft and put on Buspar. I am praying that I don’t get any sicker I already feel like I am dying

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  27. Im so pissed off I never knew things like this would happen 😡 like I don’t enjoy taking medication in the first place so for this to happen. Literally a nightmare. I’m glad I’m not alone though. I keep getting scared that I’ll die from brain zaps

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  28. Love the way he says "at least 4-6 weeks" like that's a long time and here's me soon to be celebrating my 10year anniversary of being on SSRI's, been on the top dose of sertraline for as long as I can remember

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  33. When can person get to original state and remove of all ssri? Will person able to get natural body muscles and blood pressure in nerves and active? sex drive with body order? My salvea liquid? Do I get to get my birth hormones?

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  40. Tried coming off , tapering slowly, falling asleep at the wheel. intrusive thoughts, ideation of driving into the traffic, ffs, doctor never explained what happens with coming, FFS fml

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  41. I've been experiencing discontinuation symptoms from antidepressants for a year now but in now using a different antidepressants but same dose as the other one will it help with my symptoms?

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