Posted by heroin on January 30, 2005, at 6:41:07
In reply to Re: Evidence of damage caused by drugs » heroin, posted by ed_uk on January 29, 2005, at 20:46:15
>After the day when you forgot to take your meds, >you started to feel ill in the afternoon. Did you continue with your usual medication the next day? If you did, did the symptoms which appeared that afternoon go away over the next few days when you took your medication again?Oh. sorry for the misunderstanding, I started to feel sick later in the day on the same day I stopped taking both medicines abruptly, during that night, I got a panic attack from it with dissociation (which I still have now). Actually the symptoms didn't go away when I took the medicine again, except those nerve sensations would stop when I took the Geodon, but even a year later they are still there. Those nerve pains caused by stopping the medicine all of a sudden, would stop when I took the medicine again, Geodon also caused horrible sedation.
>How long did you take clonazepam for? Do you remember the dose? Which symptoms did clonazepam help?
I took it for about a month when I was weening of of Geodon, I think the does was 2mgs, the clonazepam helped with the withdrawal, the only symptoms it seemed to help were the agitation.
>While you were still taking Effexor and Geodon, what side effects did you experience?
The side effects I had before stopping them suddenly were: extremely heavy sedation, dilated pupils, sometimes racing heart
>Have you ever taken Prozac? If you have, did you have any side effects?
no
>You said you stopped Effexor and Geodon 7 months >ago. Were you taking any medication when the twitching started? ....or did the twitching start after you stopped your meds abruptly? Can you stop the twitching if you try?
The twitching started suddenly one night about a week after starting Geodon, I can't stop the twitching but it is not as bad as it used to be.
It is mostly in the left leg.>Akathisia is a feeling of restlessness 'in the muscles' which forces a person to keep moving. Is this what you experience at the moment?
Every single moment, it is like a low level one, I do not understand why it is lasting this long for.
>Did you experience akathisia while you were still taking the Geodon?
No, only when I stopped taking the dosage suddenly.
>At the moment, do you find it difficult to sit still? If so, does clonazepam help?
Yes I feel that way and the clonazepam helps somewhat.
>Do you 'twitch' in response to feelings of restlessness or is the twitching completely out of your control?
It is out of my control
>What would the twitching movements look like to an observer?Like if you were to suddenly jerk a part of the body slightly in an outward direction.
>Can you describe what it feels like? Does it make you feel restless?
If it feels like a strange burning sensation sometimes, like a cross between hitting your funny bone and that sensation you get mid-way into a sneeze.
what I don't understand is, I was only on the Geodon for about 2 weeks, I thought it would be safe stopping it suddenly.
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