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Posted by g_g_g_unit on November 10, 2010, at 8:03:42
i discontinued clomipramine pretty quickly about ten days ago (tapering down across the course of about a week), but i'm still experiencing brain zaps..
i was wondering if it would be okay to start stablon in the next couple of days, or if i should wait for the zaps to pass?
Posted by Phillipa on November 10, 2010, at 10:39:40
In reply to ok to start new med while experiencing brain zaps?, posted by g_g_g_unit on November 10, 2010, at 8:03:42
First time was on paxil l0mg I didn't take another ad for about a year so zaps long gone. But with other ad's I was always switched from one to another so didn't get them. I guess it's your pdocs preference and if the protocol has changed in the last few years. This is only my experience. Phillipa
Posted by Conundrum on November 10, 2010, at 11:06:08
In reply to ok to start new med while experiencing brain zaps?, posted by g_g_g_unit on November 10, 2010, at 8:03:42
Wait for it to pass. It could make them worse and since you won't want the anxiety of having zaps clouding your tianeptine experience.
> i discontinued clomipramine pretty quickly about ten days ago (tapering down across the course of about a week), but i'm still experiencing brain zaps..
>
> i was wondering if it would be okay to start stablon in the next couple of days, or if i should wait for the zaps to pass?
Posted by Maxime on November 10, 2010, at 19:32:29
In reply to Re: ok to start new med while experiencing brain zaps?, posted by Conundrum on November 10, 2010, at 11:06:08
> Wait for it to pass. It could make them worse and since you won't want the anxiety of having zaps clouding your tianeptine experience.
>I am so lucky, I have never had a brain zap before and I have discontinued so many meds!
Any way, wouldn't it be possible that the Tianeptine would stop the the brain zaps?
Posted by Conundrum on November 11, 2010, at 12:18:11
In reply to Re: ok to start new med while experiencing brain zaps? » Conundrum, posted by Maxime on November 10, 2010, at 19:32:29
Well clomipramine is an SNRI, so decreasing the dose will, temporarily leave you depleted of 5HT/NE. Tianeptine is a serotonin reuptake enhancers and works by removing serotonin from the synapse. So it depletes extracellular serotonin. So it could prolong the effects of the withdrawal. But I think GGG unit already started taking it anyway.
> > Wait for it to pass. It could make them worse and since you won't want the anxiety of having zaps clouding your tianeptine experience.
> >
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> I am so lucky, I have never had a brain zap before and I have discontinued so many meds!
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> Any way, wouldn't it be possible that the Tianeptine would stop the the brain zaps?
Posted by g_g_g_unit on November 11, 2010, at 17:29:01
In reply to Re: ok to start new med while experiencing brain zaps?, posted by Conundrum on November 11, 2010, at 12:18:11
>But I think GGG unit already started taking it >anyway.
>The zaps were pretty infrequent - maybe once or twice a day. They've essentially stopped though, along with the intense nausea I was experiencing.
I took my first Stablon dose 5 minutes ago :)
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