Got quite a taste of pharmaceutical withdrawal today!

It sucked, man.

I take Zoloft for anxiety, didn't take it the past two days! Bad idea...

Woke up this morning feelin' like shit. Sweating, dizzy, stomach cramping and a pain in my head that must've came from the depths of hell itself. Every time I tried to move I almost threw up. I was seeing two of everything...



I'm better now...



Ate sum fried chicken.. :afro:

 

If you still had an appetite and were able to eat, count yourself lucky.

 

SSRI and SNRI withdrawal can be really nasty actually. I take Effexor, which is known for having probably the worst antidepressant w/d (up there with Zoloft as you mentioned...), and in the very rare times I forget it, by the evening (I usually take it in morning) I am fucking shaking and sweating my scrotum off. I would put it NEARLY as bad as mild to moderate opioid withdrawal. And yes, I do know what opioid withdrawal is like. I have been taking opioids for years.

 

i tapered off of cymbalta over a period of 30 days, and it was still pretty shitty.

 

Cymbalta W/D can have that nasty symptom called suicide...

 

quite ironic if you think about it

 

damn, this is one of the reasons that I decided not to starts taking antidepressants.

 

Yes. I think they should only be prescribed for people with either crippling panic attacks or anxiety and/ or very severe depression. Unfortunately, doctors seem to think that antidepressants are overwhelmingly safer than things like pscyhotherapy or occasional use of benzodiazepines. But they really are not.

 

Holy cow, if you want to talk about a nasty withdrawal, try getting off of tramadol. It has all the classic and usual opiate withdraw symptome plus the added torture of withdrawing from an SNRI effects. The brain zaps just go on endlessly, until you feel like you want to rip your own head off and feed it to the dogs.