Posted by canary on April 16, 2011, at 5:00:42
In reply to Re: Day three of tianeptine taper, posted by sukarno on April 1, 2010, at 16:07:21
> This is the third day of being on only 12.5mg TID.
> The first thing I noticed when decreasing from 4 tablets to three tablets was a feeling of nervousness/jitters, so I had to take Valium and it helped somewhat.
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> Now I have a headache and yesterday had some heart palpitations that scared me. I guess my anxiety is cranked up a bit high, but not to the point of being unbearable. More strange dreams at night, but no trouble sleeping (Valium does a pretty good job at keeping me asleep.. 8 to 10 hours).
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> There is a dysphoria, but I increased my lightbox use from 2 hours/day to 3 hours/day and that helps a lot to offset that.
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> I'm holding on Valium 5mg QID until I get off Stablon, which I hope to discontinue at the end of April. If I have to, I will use more Valium temporarily to deal with any emergent withdrawal symptoms from Stablon.
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> It really is too bad that most psychiatric drugs cause physical dependence to one degree or another. :-(Hi,
I recently ordered tianeptine for depression, social anxiety.
I noticed that you have a long history with it. I have read some of your posts about your up and down experience with it.... you seemed to be having great success, but the most recent post I read, you had been discontinuing with it, stating "good riddance".
This alarmed me a bit. What went wrong after so long? Was it causing a horrible side effect?
Cheers and best of luck.
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