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- JBird88
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I had a rough go with withdrawal symptoms after I tapered off Effexor. I can’t say what’s best for you, but I can say the withdrawal symptoms dissipated after a week or so. I did eventually go back on a different medication, Paxil, plus Lamictal, and that is helping me. Hang in there and be gentle on yourself. I think OCD makes withdrawal symptoms even worse because it feeds the “what if” thoughts. You’re not alone. ❤️
I recently got off 40mg of Prozac. It has a long half life so it should take weeks or more something to leave your system. You may be responding to not having it and are worried about being off it and your OCD is acting up. The withdrawal from Prozac is not bad compared to some other meds especially at a low dose it should be minimal side effects I had lots of brain zaps. It seems like it was a very low dose and you will be fine and have the support and okay of your doctor. Good luck!
Searched and found this post as I’m going through similar things. How are you now if I may ask.
Stopped cold turkey 20mg and its day 6 some things feel better but my ocd makes me think I’m going crazy
Also what helped me was going to work and keeping as busy as I can. When you really stay focused and dedicate yourself to a hobby or task it takes SO much stress off of you
When I stopped taking this, I did it gradually. Did you do that? At first I stopped taking it once or twice a week, then only ever 2 days, then i only took it once or twice a week until I was just taking it randomly every 5-7 days until I stopped taking it completely. I would recommend going back to your doctor and discuss this with them.
Thank you all!! I’m trying to stay as busy as I can
Hey ! So This was a while back and honestly I DID GET ALOT BETTER. It takes time
Thank you for the reply. Having such a rough time currently.
@lulu23 You’re welcome! Are your thoughts all over the place? What symptoms are you having?
I would give it like ... 1 week or 2 in order to feel normal again. If you just stopped cold turkey I would watch your thinking habits carefully. do you have a doctor? If you have close friends and family I recommend staying close to them to feel better. It helps. But you will have uncomfortable side effects
So did u eventually just accept what you were going through and get through it? Sometimes I have no idea what’s going on or how to explain it
I have a question about Prozac or other SSRIs. So I definitely showed some OCD symptoms before taking Prozac (especially in regard to health obsessions), but after I took Prozac, the really terrible thoughts came in. Did anyone else experience this when taking Prozac? I’m off of them now (for over a year) but after a lot of work I STILL have residual thoughts from it.
Hi All - I have OCD, anxiety and depression but after a couple years on meds and therapy have been doing fairly well so decided to slowly go off my medicine. Well, I was doing really well and now five days post going off meds I’m really struggling today. Anxious, crying, panic mode intrusive thought triggers and overall overwhelming feeling. I’m almost wondering if my fears of going off medicine have just spilled over and my OCD is triggering this feeling. Or if I made the wrong decision and that going off medication to balance me out is just where I need to be right now. Just really hard to be present Anyone else been through this? Any advice or ways to process. Going to get back into therapy for sure and support groups.
Hello Im looking for some support/maybe people who have had similar experiences, but anyway, leading up to this fear/new set of symptoms, I was having panic attacks daily over another health anxiety theme, I feltlike I was going to have anaphylaxis from anything that late (despite me not having any confirmed food allergies), it got so bad that I would sometimes eat my lunch in the parking lot of the emergency room. Then I started developing agoraphobia, I started getting lightheaded in public and a general sense or being unwell even unrelated to food fears. Then suddenly I became easily overstimulated /getting sensory overload and when I looked up my symptoms and I saw that this can be one of the first symptoms of schizophrenia prodrome. It's been ALL downhill from there. I now feel spaced out (dp/dr) 24/7. I feel like l'm afraid of everything sometimes, I'm almost too afraid to watch tv because I'm afraid I will believe their talking to me or something. I'm constantly monitoring my own thoughts/listening out for voices. I feel like I'm not thinking the same anymore, I feel different, I feel like my thinking is slower, I feel like I'm constantly focusing on trivia nonsensica shit rather than the task at hand.sometimes I get extreme racing thoughts, yet at the same time sometimes I feel mentally slow. Im having really bad disorganized thoughts all the time, I have random phrases, words, songs that don’t make sense pop into my head all the time now, almost like the kind of random thoughts you get just before you fall asleep. I'm over analyzing every single thing. Any background noise that I immediately do not know the origin of triggers me until I know what it is and can confirm I'm not hallucinating. I just don't feel like myself at all, I feel a giant cloud in my head and feel heavy headed. I'm sometimes completely unable to think concentrate. Sounds stupid but I feel like I can't even play video games normally anymore, ill catch myself just running around aimlessly doing stupid shit, focusing on trivial nonsensical shit like I've never played a game before, I get distracted by random details now in a game l've played forever. Point is I feel like I'm not thinking normal anymore. I'm having EXTREMELY severe panic attacks multiple times a day now revolving around thoughts like "this is the lead up and im going to lose my mind", have to live in a psych ward, lose my wife, never be myself ever again, not be able to function anymore. I can barely leave the house at all, I feel almost afraid to be around people while I feel like this, I ALMOST can't even go to work anymore, but I HAVE TO because I get my health/mental health insurance through my employer, it's the only way I can see a therapist and psychiatrist and if I lost my job my insurance would be gone. Everytime I have a panic attack now I think "this is it!! I'm about to have the psychotic break!" Hoping this is just a result of extreme stress/just another health anxiety OCD theme. I was prescribed .25 daily klonopin to get me out of this episode but it doesn't really work, it takes away the panic but the brain fog/slow thinking/nonsensical thinking and inability to think clearly feeling still remains, and the worrying/obsessing about it still. Really need some support/kindness. I've been in tears over this. Extremely stressful and debilitating.
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