Just remembering how things were for me when I stopped. my doc's advice was. half it every 4 weeks she put me up to 30mg 3 months before i stopped.
My Taper went like this,
was on 20mg for 8 years
then 30mg for 2 months
back to 20 for 4 weeks
then down to 10 for 4 weeks
Then 5 for 4 weeks
Then I stopped.
When i look now at what everyone's taper schedule is like no wonder I crashed!
Sheesh, that was, indeed, a disastrous tapering schedule!
And way back in 2003-5, I took Prozac to “help” with the Paxil taper! That was another brilliant idea back in the dinosaur ages.
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
My doctor would do something similar (with a small difference of cutting it down by 50%, then stopping it altogether). WD always kicked in very quick, upon which she switched the drugs/upped the dose, added more drugs, etc. Oh boy...Originally Posted by squirrel
Keep walking. Just keep walking.
The tapering was of course to much brutal,
why do they proceed this way? criminal, sado, moronic?
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
better than my taper...40mg down to 20mg for a year and a half then CTed
strangly I can also now see that I did have some withdrawal from the 40-20 drop, I remember having a total breakdown about something at work and crying and bawling and making a big fuss over something small, of course I never put it down to withdrawal, but it was
Put on citalopram July 2009 during a physical illness - didnt need it. 40mg
went down to 20mg July 2010 CT in Jan 2012 - 2.5 years on.
Tried to restart July 2012 due to 1 panic attack (never had one before - start of CT W/D) - adverse reaction
Down to 1.5mg from the failed RI
Now at 0.48 and trying to stabalize - been 6 weeks
now have SEVERE anxiety, akathsia, feel like Im on acid 24/7 depression, D/P, signed off work. Scared of everything..please God let me heal from this
Good question, Stan.
Keep walking. Just keep walking.
I went from 150mg to 0mg Effexor in three months....Dr's advice...
Even though, if it weren't for poor sleep, I am seeing improvements after 11 months off;no more AD or reinstament since.
150mgs Effexor for 4 years 2008-2012 for situational Major Depression. No AD before
Tapered 150-0mgs in 3 months / last dose July 26th/2012 aprox.
Acute W/D first 1-2 months
Protracted W/D since then and slowly recovering.
Main symptoms: Anxiety, Insomnia,Anhedonia.
April 9th- 20th SEVERE DEPRESSION.
11 months off.Slowly improving
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