Posted by ChicagoKat on October 4, 2012, at 16:16:19
In reply to Antidepressant Hell - HELP!, posted by Razzle on December 28, 2010, at 8:38:06
> I went through benzodiazapine withdrawal over 21 years ago and it was 2 years of torture.
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> 5 months ago I took two days of the antidepressant doxepin for sleep and anxiety. It was a tiny 6 mg dose where most start at 25 to 50 mg - this was the new sedative dose called Silenor...but same old tyrcyclic.
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> Within days after stopping the two doses I started to have severe jerking all day long, then intense internal jittering, severe gut cramps with nausea, feeling like I was going psychotic and 50 other symptoms that have no words.
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> How could this be on two doses and it is not getting better...and yes I have seen neurologists, the shrink that prescried it and a pharmacologist - all say they dont know
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> thanks for readingWhat other meds are you on?
Kat
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