I have been unsuccessfully on Lexapro,Anafranil and Cymbalta last year. Now I have been off Cymbalta
for a few days and the brain zaps already kick in again. I feel even more depressed now. Between Lexapro and Anafranil
I was 3 weeks off meds and during the whole 3 weeks the brain zaps did not go away!
How long can the withdrawal last? I assume the longer you have been on a SSRI or similar the longer the withdrawal lasts
and I have been on serotonergic drugs with only a few weeks in between since May 2014.
This is freaking me out.
I am still as depressed as always, the damn antidepressants didn't work, and now I even have withdrawal.
What should I do now?
I mean should I try to withdraw until the brain zaps go away?
Or should I simply go on another antidepressant? This would make the zaps go away but what will this at the same time not make future withdrawals
worse? When I got off Lexapro and first got the zaps and then started Anafranil a few weeks later the zaps instantly went away. But after stopping Anafranil
they returned.
What if a person has been on a SSRI or something similar for years? Then the brain has adapted to this. Can you even withdraw after such a long time or
are you forced to stay on the drug forever?
I don't know if I should worry about this very much or not. Fact is I'm still damn depressed and I needed an antidepressant which WORKS!
But what if I cannot find any? I feel more and more hopeless. I also don't have a pdoc who has experience with treatment resistance and who knows all kinds of
tricks and combos. I only have a regular pdoc. I don't know how to find one who has experience with treatment resistance.
for a few days and the brain zaps already kick in again. I feel even more depressed now. Between Lexapro and Anafranil
I was 3 weeks off meds and during the whole 3 weeks the brain zaps did not go away!
How long can the withdrawal last? I assume the longer you have been on a SSRI or similar the longer the withdrawal lasts
and I have been on serotonergic drugs with only a few weeks in between since May 2014.
This is freaking me out.
I am still as depressed as always, the damn antidepressants didn't work, and now I even have withdrawal.
What should I do now?
I mean should I try to withdraw until the brain zaps go away?
Or should I simply go on another antidepressant? This would make the zaps go away but what will this at the same time not make future withdrawals
worse? When I got off Lexapro and first got the zaps and then started Anafranil a few weeks later the zaps instantly went away. But after stopping Anafranil
they returned.
What if a person has been on a SSRI or something similar for years? Then the brain has adapted to this. Can you even withdraw after such a long time or
are you forced to stay on the drug forever?
I don't know if I should worry about this very much or not. Fact is I'm still damn depressed and I needed an antidepressant which WORKS!
But what if I cannot find any? I feel more and more hopeless. I also don't have a pdoc who has experience with treatment resistance and who knows all kinds of
tricks and combos. I only have a regular pdoc. I don't know how to find one who has experience with treatment resistance.