Posted by hansi555 on December 4, 2010, at 13:19:14
Hi all
After a 28 week period of constant and slowly tapering from 110 mg Noritren, 10 mg Lexapro and 12 mg Mirtazapin to now nothing, I have run into a serious setback.
During the first 80% of this period I have generally felt better than on most of the time when on the meds on a 100% dosis.I have felt small mood swings, change in sleep etc. but nothing too serious untill approx. 3 weeks ago.
My mood has become less and less good/normal, crying spells have emerged, sleeping is worse (espsecially since I completely dropped the Mirt 2 weeks ago) and appetite is less in periods.
Of all these symptoms the feeling low is by far the most troublesome, also christmas is coming now, 2 small girls, wife etc.I have been on meds for almost 3 years but they never really helped me to a satisfying result in any way. After reading the book "Anatomy of an epidemic" by R. Whitaker I was (and still is) convinced that the meds will not help but indeed make things worse when used over many years.
However I am suspecting that I may have been to ambisious and too quickly at the end of the taper. My question now is if I should:
1) Just stay off the meds and be patient and believe that it is "only" a question of time, weeks or months
2) Move back some weeks to a minimum dosis and then try tappering off again in a slower manner
?
poster:hansi555
thread:972459
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