MadKad
04-03-08, 14:29
I am unsure where to post this, its a long read but please read and help if you can
I started to come of my Clomipramine a number of weeks ago after I have been on them for a long time and found that I was getting good results in my behaves, I was starting to go out and feel a lot better in my self, along with Clomipramine I also take Propranolol I was on the highest does I could be for both and still am on the highest does on the Propranolol, as I was feeling good in my self I thought it would be a good idea to ask the doctor if I could come of the Clomipramine and look into quitting smoking using none smoking tablets called Zyban as I couldn’t take Zyban and Clomipramine together, I did as the doctor ordered and lowered my Clomipramine dosage over 3 week periods, last Friday I went back over a number of weeks to see my doctor as all was going great we talked and he said to stop now taking my last Clomipramine tablet that I was taking a day, the next day I wasn’t to bad but since then I have felt really unwell, I hope to start taking Zyban on Thursday as quitting smoking is something I really want to do and all the other things I have tried have failed.
OK so since quitting Clomipramine I have started to feel really unwell, I have still been doing my tasks that I have been set by my CBT therapist and I have found that they are what are making me really ill, so I have come to the conclusion that I am getting really bad anxiety problems and that the Clomipramine was helping a lot more than I thought and that it wasn’t just me controlling it, the anxiety is becoming a massive joke now on my life and coursing me and my girlfriend big stress problems, I have spend the last 2 and half days in bed after doing very little in the morning and now I will be shortly entering my bed again, I am now again missing out on doing things with my son and I really don’t want to have to go back on Clomipramine again as this will only slow things down again in my life.
When I become ill I get symptoms like feeling very sick, savvier head aches, shake and blind vision along with a number of other symptoms like palpitations I don’t mind palpitations as these have never really scared me in any way, these palpitations are the biggest I have ever had but I still don’t mind them, I am also getting intrusive thoughts but again I am dealing with them, the main thing I need to know are is this the side effects of coming off the Clomipramine or has the Clomipramine been covering up the anxiety that I need to deal with?
If this is the side effects of coming off the Clomipramine then I think I can hold out till they go, but if this is the full anxiety I will be getting then I am really screwed in a big way and I don’t think I am going to coupe as I feel I have gone back 99% of the way, I don’t want to live on taking Diazepam to deal with these problems as I have manage to not do so far but I also don’t want to spend time all the time in bed.
Can you help me in some way as I am going crazy and I feel like I am screwing my life up and not just that my sons as he also is living with this as he just stays in because I am not able to do anything with him.
Also to add I have found that keeping my self bussy in my house has stoped me from keeling over, I have been cleaning the house and at a stupid crazy speed, it gets my blood pumping and keeps me going but there is only so much I can do and not only till its done but until I have no more energy to do any more and still end up ill, I feel that this is not helping my O.C.D. as I then also get angry at any mess I see, I am getting so frustrated as I just want to feel like I used to feel along time ago.
I started to come of my Clomipramine a number of weeks ago after I have been on them for a long time and found that I was getting good results in my behaves, I was starting to go out and feel a lot better in my self, along with Clomipramine I also take Propranolol I was on the highest does I could be for both and still am on the highest does on the Propranolol, as I was feeling good in my self I thought it would be a good idea to ask the doctor if I could come of the Clomipramine and look into quitting smoking using none smoking tablets called Zyban as I couldn’t take Zyban and Clomipramine together, I did as the doctor ordered and lowered my Clomipramine dosage over 3 week periods, last Friday I went back over a number of weeks to see my doctor as all was going great we talked and he said to stop now taking my last Clomipramine tablet that I was taking a day, the next day I wasn’t to bad but since then I have felt really unwell, I hope to start taking Zyban on Thursday as quitting smoking is something I really want to do and all the other things I have tried have failed.
OK so since quitting Clomipramine I have started to feel really unwell, I have still been doing my tasks that I have been set by my CBT therapist and I have found that they are what are making me really ill, so I have come to the conclusion that I am getting really bad anxiety problems and that the Clomipramine was helping a lot more than I thought and that it wasn’t just me controlling it, the anxiety is becoming a massive joke now on my life and coursing me and my girlfriend big stress problems, I have spend the last 2 and half days in bed after doing very little in the morning and now I will be shortly entering my bed again, I am now again missing out on doing things with my son and I really don’t want to have to go back on Clomipramine again as this will only slow things down again in my life.
When I become ill I get symptoms like feeling very sick, savvier head aches, shake and blind vision along with a number of other symptoms like palpitations I don’t mind palpitations as these have never really scared me in any way, these palpitations are the biggest I have ever had but I still don’t mind them, I am also getting intrusive thoughts but again I am dealing with them, the main thing I need to know are is this the side effects of coming off the Clomipramine or has the Clomipramine been covering up the anxiety that I need to deal with?
If this is the side effects of coming off the Clomipramine then I think I can hold out till they go, but if this is the full anxiety I will be getting then I am really screwed in a big way and I don’t think I am going to coupe as I feel I have gone back 99% of the way, I don’t want to live on taking Diazepam to deal with these problems as I have manage to not do so far but I also don’t want to spend time all the time in bed.
Can you help me in some way as I am going crazy and I feel like I am screwing my life up and not just that my sons as he also is living with this as he just stays in because I am not able to do anything with him.
Also to add I have found that keeping my self bussy in my house has stoped me from keeling over, I have been cleaning the house and at a stupid crazy speed, it gets my blood pumping and keeps me going but there is only so much I can do and not only till its done but until I have no more energy to do any more and still end up ill, I feel that this is not helping my O.C.D. as I then also get angry at any mess I see, I am getting so frustrated as I just want to feel like I used to feel along time ago.