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Re: Protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal?

Posted by katekite on August 12, 2002, at 20:22:58

In reply to Re: Protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal?, posted by Hiba on August 12, 2002, at 0:35:06

I think it must just be very individual which is worse. For me both were bad, honestly. I just finished the klonopin withdrawal (yahoo) and had a hard time with it, but the symptoms were very clear: insomnia, shakiness etc. Prozac withdrawal was probably there, but only in retrospect: irritability and just not being myself. It didn't start for a long time, was mild enough and enough like my own personality to just look like I might be depressed. So in a way I disliked it more because it was insidious and hard to know whether it was me or a drug. For me Prozac felt more 'mental' and klonopin more 'physical', if one can make a distinction like that.

Incidentally my libido improved slowly for over year after Prozac. I'm still not normal but that's probably other illness as I was quite normal for a while. After I took Zoloft it also took several months. I had priapism on Celexa and stopped for that reason and it took a long time (a month) after that to feel normal again. It's not reported but I would guess there is some atrophy or blood flow change or something that may take a very long time to go away. Don't despair though, I think it's reversible. I found moclobemide really helped and I feel like the days after I took it I was more normal than before (even though it is a very short acting drug), as if it got old inactive circuits working again or something. I'm sure it's just some kind of memory or placebo thing, but it seemed real to me. Might be worth a try. I know for me I just don't feel like a human (and thus not completely ok) without the ability to have sex.

Kate


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