For what I read and learned, is it reasonable to say that in the Protracted W/D Syndrome, "visible" "important" improvement is gonna take place not before the 2 years or 24 months mark?
For what I read and learned, is it reasonable to say that in the Protracted W/D Syndrome, "visible" "important" improvement is gonna take place not before the 2 years or 24 months mark?
There are many factors involved, Alex. WD will last short for a person who took ADs for weeks (some people don't experience WD at all) and longer for those who took them for years. These are two completely different situations. Then, you have people suffering from adverse reaction, still others experienced kindling effect, some both, everyone's physiology differs, not to mention many other factors (of which we may don't even know yet).
The "improvement" you mention can, then, start happening quite soon in some, in others it may take more time. It is very reasonable to say though, that if you are feeling improvement already, by the 24 months' mark you will feel considerably better.
Keep walking. Just keep walking.
I had a first "real" window at about 19 months off, so even before the 2 year mark. Though is was short lasting and awful waves were hitting me afterwards, is was a window anyway. And for me the the startpoint of the long, long road to recovery.
Recovering from the ravages of withdrawal after 5 years on Paxil/Seroxat, originally prescribed for stress and, looking backward, PTSS.
Though it is hardly possible to get something positive from the utter hell of repeated c/t's and protracted w/d, all of this unnecessary, I still believe in the possiblity to emerge from this as a healed, wiser human being.
All we need is just a little patience - Guns N' Roses
What is the difference between A/R and Kindling?
Kindling is a bad reaction upon *reinstating* the drug.
Keep walking. Just keep walking.
I have noticed improvement in my symptoms like floating anxiety, fight or flight reaction;anhedonia and isolation little improvement. And the worst is insomnia; very disrupted sleep.This symptom scares the hell out of me.Physical symptoms fortunately I have a few and mild: tinnitus,sore eyes, tiredness; even my libido is ok, I guess...because my girlfriend walked away from me...Originally Posted by Claudius
7 months and 20 days aprox Effexor free.
Alex -- did your w/d affect your relationship with your girlfriend, or was it other issues?
Meds free since June 2005.
"An initiation into shamanic healing means a devaluation of all values, an overturning of the profane world, a peeling away of inveterate handed-down notions of the world, liberation from everything preconceived. For that reason, shamanism is closely connected with suffering. One must suffer the disintegration of one's own system of thought in order to perceive a new world in the higher space."
-- Holger Kalweit
It was W/D she doesn´t or doesn´t want to understand my condition.
i spoke of the 2 years mark for me, but when i reached them, i notice that it was for the short termer, and not for me, i belong to long termer
12 years paxil(9 years only 10 mg) - cold turkey(1,5 month) and switch celexa tapered 1 year 20 mg
62 years old - for GAD - 4 years 3 months meds free [since april 2009]
vegetables soup - orange (vit C) - curcuma - some meat or fish
Also because of money issues.
Well, I´ve found out what I always suspected about her: she is an empty, inmature, ignorant, selfish person...but she has very pretty eyes...HA!
Besides, w/d is difficult to understand to "normal" people.But in this process I´ve learned to know who are my good friends and fortunately I do have some good friends.
BTW, I don´t want to be "pesado", but, why don´t you try Phosphatidyl-serine?
Blessings.
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