Posted by mellow on September 23, 2010, at 2:50:24
In reply to SSRI withdrawal 1 month later, still zapping, posted by vitalsign0 on September 22, 2010, at 12:07:45
I feel your pain and I will continue to follow your post as i'm going through this right now!
I'm ten days off of Celexa. I was at 20mg Celexa for probably two years and 40 mg Lexapro for three years before that. The doc dropped me to 10mg of Celexa for a couple of months and I'm ten days into no Celexa at all right now. I made and emergency appointment on Monday and he increased my Lamictal to 150mg b/c I said I want to try with no SSRI in my cocktail. (My theory being that the SSRI's make mixed episodes and jittery manic energy worse) He said we will see what happens, but I have to remain open to being on an SSRI if I can't calm down and get my obsessions and emotions under control.
On one hand I feel worse than I have in a long time, but I also feel like I did before my full mental collapse in 2005. I have been listening to jazz and writing poetry and short stories again. I'm blogging and feeling very passionate.
But the down fall is my emotions and nervous energy are just all over the place. I feel like I'm going crazy, but this is the first time I have felt "real" emotions in almost five years...and maybe its worth the anxiety to see the beauty in life again...between the freak outs anyway.
Bipolar II
Lamictal 100, Topamax 50, Risperdal 0.5, B 100 complex, B 12, Vit C, Cal/Mag with D3, Fish Oil, High Potency Multi Vitamin
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