Quoted: Thanks again everyone. I have been back on my 30mg doses for 2 days now and WOW how much better I feel. I am going to see another doctor in another town in a couple of weeks, maybe I can still get off this shit.
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Good luck with that. I grew up being on those meds when I was a teenager. Like someone else said, I didn't have any benefits and the medicene was too expensive for me to continue to take. I've been on Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac, Buspar, and some other stuff for various periods of time.
I successfully removed myself from those medications by doing the research and finding and effective method for me to step myself off of them. It was still difficult for me for several months, but now that I've been off them for so many years (about 9 years now), I would never EVER go on them again.
If you have the option of a physician supervise getting you off that stuff, do it.
Another poster recommended Cognitive Behavioral Thearpy...look into it. If I ever get good benefits coverage again, that's the route I'm going.
I found that a healthy diet (lots of bland and less-than-tasty food
helped9 years later, I still have my nights where just a second before I'm asleep my heart races and I begin to sweat, and sometimes I get edgy when I see blood. However, I've also started college and started a new career.
For me, the world didn't end. It began. I even started visiting ARFCOM again...lol