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Posted: 1/7/2006 3:02:59 PM EDT
After being on some medication for over a year I'm finally coming off of it. Went cold turkey and the results have not been pleasant. Nausea, dizziness, disorientation, tiredness, etc etc.
Hopefully it'll be over within a few days, cause this sure sucks!  
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Posted: 1/7/2006 3:04:20 PM EDT
[#1]
stick with it man, tough i know. try to stop smoking after years and years of the shit
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Posted: 1/7/2006 3:04:58 PM EDT
[#2]
Hello, My name is
Yeah, withdrawl sucks, thats why I make sure to drink a soda sometime before lunch...  ETA: oops forgot I have a different name here 
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Posted: 1/7/2006 3:05:09 PM EDT
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day 7 of no booze
im bored actually i have to much time,, it went by faster wheni was shit faced all the time
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Posted: 1/7/2006 3:06:06 PM EDT
[#4]
I plan on toughing it out, but it'll be a hell of a ride until that happens 
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Posted: 1/7/2006 3:09:16 PM EDT
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I hope you spoke with a doctor or a pharmacist. It is not good to quit medications cold turkey. You usually have to lower the dose slowly before you quit. Cold turkey can be very dangerous depending on the medication. |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 3:11:16 PM EDT
[#6]
what meds? he's right. withdrawal from some meds can be fatal if not done right.. |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 4:11:21 PM EDT
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What they said. |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:07:51 PM EDT
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Jesus I think I'm practically dying at this point. About to go puke my brains out. Hope this shit passes soon. My vision is fucking up and I feel like I'm gonna hurl at any moment. Hearing shit too.
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:09:54 PM EDT
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Read this post! What meds? |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:10:26 PM EDT
[#10]
What the hell were you on?? |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:18:16 PM EDT
[#11]
A serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. Remind me never to do meth or heroin. I bet this is a walk in the park compared to that shit .
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:18:52 PM EDT
[#12]
uhh, why the hell were you on that? and why are you "quitting"?
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:19:29 PM EDT
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If youve been on benzos you should NOT do it without professional supervision. There are high risks involved.
ETA you mean SSRI's like Paxil? |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:20:18 PM EDT
[#14]
Tired of being in a drugged stupor. I'd rather go through a few hellish weeks of this withdrawal than spent many more months in a cloudy fog. |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:21:12 PM EDT
[#15]
you do realize that you are supposed to slowly get off those right? chemical imbalances tend to cause wacky things to happen
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:21:54 PM EDT
[#16]
Tried tapering down. All it resulted in was feeling less like shit for a longer period of time. Rather do my time now and be done with it than drag it out. As for wacky shit happening, if I move my eyes right or left, my hearing warps and wavers .
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:22:45 PM EDT
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yeaaah, by "wacky things" I mean suicide, killing sprees, self mutilation, you know, happy stuff like that
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:23:42 PM EDT
[#18]
Ya like shooting up a school, or police station.. |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:24:02 PM EDT
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Yep, I quit Paxil too. Actually, it's tougher than Heroin. I honestly thought that I was going to die. It's worth it. For me, I really needed the emotional timeout, but when it was time to rejoin the world I was really glad that I did. If you have access to the archive, check out archive.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=295500. I had a pretty good thread going when I kicked it. Just lock up your guns, take some time off from work, and ride it out. You are ramping down, right? Failure to do so can be suicidal depending on the dosage you are coming off of. IM me if ya need anything. Disconnector ETA: I see that you are not ramping. Bad idea, dude. That is a serious fucking no no with this stuff. Please listen . . . you have to ramp or you may go completely psychotic. Ask me how I know |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:24:53 PM EDT
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No temptation to do shit like that. I was on a relatively modest dose (half of what the big-timers get). My mental state is fine and has been for months. I just physically feel like shit at this point. |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:26:37 PM EDT
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well best of luck to you man, just be aware of the possible side effects from cold turkey
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:26:42 PM EDT
[#22]
Goddamn, Paxil is that rough to quit? |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:28:45 PM EDT
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I appreciate it. I'm plenty aware of the risks. My sister is a doctor and has insisted I go about it another way. My biggest fear is I've read about in very rare cases the withdrawal feelings being permanent and that you have to be on these pills your whole life if that's so. If that's the case then...I don't know. In the meantime it's gutcheck time and time to cowboy up. |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:29:57 PM EDT
[#24]
Luckily I still have a week and a half left of college break to sit around and just ride this out. No worries or concerns otherwise. |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:35:33 PM EDT
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I think that a forced withdrawal would be a great way to interrogate terrorist suspects. I just about lost my fucking mind. Two steps from the loony bin, friend. Imagine a post-Mardi gras hangover, the bird flu, random electric shocks, two tabs of acid, a little angel dust, and a case of the shits for good measure all at the same time. I tapered as slowly as I could, but my shit was severely out of whack for a month. Luckily my employer valued my contribution enough to pretty much let me sit in a cube for three weeks and veg. No one would trust me with my admin login (I'm a sys admin for a rather large bank) so I pretty much just read ARFCom and tried to quell the urge to get a shotgun and kill everyone that I saw. My wife packed up for her Mom and Dad's and took my (then) two year old with her. That was a smart move. Paxil is some serious serious serious shit. It served it's purpose, but I'll never do it again . . . I'll eat the barrel of my .45 first. YMMV, IMHO. etc Disconnector |
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:39:23 PM EDT
[#26]
Fun hearing your eyeballs move, aint it
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Posted: 1/7/2006 9:41:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/8/2006 4:45:27 AM EDT
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BTDT. I discovered afterwards that even though Zoloft had ceased working as well as it did at the start, it was still better being on it than off it. Best wishes; if you need any suggestions, just scream -- although my main one would be to TAPER OFF, don't go cold turkey. But eventually you have to go from some partial dosage to zero anyway. . . .
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Posted: 1/8/2006 6:18:53 AM EDT
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Download that song Cold Turkey by John Lennon. It ends with him screaming in agony
Whoa, you were on anti-depressants? I hope your mood stays healthy if you're off the meds. |
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Posted: 1/9/2006 1:50:18 PM EDT
[#30]
Well, 3 days in and things are getting better. Improving every day but still not 100%.
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Posted: 1/9/2006 1:56:07 PM EDT
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Stopping like that can cause some serious mood and preception changes. Be aware that things may not be what they seem. DO NOT MAKE ANY RASH DECISIONS. |
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Posted: 1/9/2006 1:56:58 PM EDT
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no shit |
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