JC93
09-11-11, 22:41
I've been going through a tough time as of late coming of a certain medicine notorious for producing severe withdrawal symptoms.
It was necessary to come off the tablets as they were a suspect in my digestive health troubles. After tapering off as slowly as I could, I finally was down to zero, and was delighted with myself. If only I'd known what was around the corner, I may of approached things differently, but, I didn't so I couldn't.
From the day after I came off the medicine, I have been suffering from severe almost constant nausea, spells of dizziness and frequent anxiety attacks. I like to think I dealt with it in the best way possible, dealing with them by not eating foods that upset my stomach, taking motillium for the nausea, and Xanax when the panic attacks got to much to handle.
It's exam year and I haven't been in since the 5th of October, I just can't, the symptoms are too bad and have been almost constant, so much so that I can hardly muster up the energy to eat, (Ive lost about 5-6 pound in a month) which is not good as I was already borderline clinically underweight.
After a month of relentless digestive troubles, acute dizziness and a solemn mood, I was prescribed with a different medicine then the one I was on previously, that if taken should reverse the discontinuation symptoms quickly and have me back to my old, moderately anxious and nauseous self.
I'd push on through if I knew that I would feel better soon, but the fact of the matter is, if I don't take the medicine that may cause me to feel sick, I could suffer for the next few months.
After putting all of my energy into facing each day without my tablets, I feel as if giving up now would be a failure on my part because I'l never know if it was the medicine that was causing my nausea or not. And I'l never know if I was nearly over the worst in terms of my discontinuation symptoms.
I don't want to be on antidepressants for the rest of my life, mainly because I don't need them anymore, I just want to feel better so I can get on with my life.
Does anyone have any experience with anything similar that they might be able to help me with?
Thanks for reading, it's a long thread but I hope this may be able to relate to somebody else who's suffering in silence from withdrawal symptoms, or just anxiety disorders in general.
If anybody has any questions ask and I'l answer.
Its been getting worse instead of better, I went on prozac today as its meant to be easier to come off, but it's just given me diarrhea and I feel even sicker and dizzier.
It was necessary to come off the tablets as they were a suspect in my digestive health troubles. After tapering off as slowly as I could, I finally was down to zero, and was delighted with myself. If only I'd known what was around the corner, I may of approached things differently, but, I didn't so I couldn't.
From the day after I came off the medicine, I have been suffering from severe almost constant nausea, spells of dizziness and frequent anxiety attacks. I like to think I dealt with it in the best way possible, dealing with them by not eating foods that upset my stomach, taking motillium for the nausea, and Xanax when the panic attacks got to much to handle.
It's exam year and I haven't been in since the 5th of October, I just can't, the symptoms are too bad and have been almost constant, so much so that I can hardly muster up the energy to eat, (Ive lost about 5-6 pound in a month) which is not good as I was already borderline clinically underweight.
After a month of relentless digestive troubles, acute dizziness and a solemn mood, I was prescribed with a different medicine then the one I was on previously, that if taken should reverse the discontinuation symptoms quickly and have me back to my old, moderately anxious and nauseous self.
I'd push on through if I knew that I would feel better soon, but the fact of the matter is, if I don't take the medicine that may cause me to feel sick, I could suffer for the next few months.
After putting all of my energy into facing each day without my tablets, I feel as if giving up now would be a failure on my part because I'l never know if it was the medicine that was causing my nausea or not. And I'l never know if I was nearly over the worst in terms of my discontinuation symptoms.
I don't want to be on antidepressants for the rest of my life, mainly because I don't need them anymore, I just want to feel better so I can get on with my life.
Does anyone have any experience with anything similar that they might be able to help me with?
Thanks for reading, it's a long thread but I hope this may be able to relate to somebody else who's suffering in silence from withdrawal symptoms, or just anxiety disorders in general.
If anybody has any questions ask and I'l answer.
Its been getting worse instead of better, I went on prozac today as its meant to be easier to come off, but it's just given me diarrhea and I feel even sicker and dizzier.