Posted by missliz on January 29, 2004, at 5:01:25
In reply to Re: Please - withdrawals from SSRI - Nausea- how long?, posted by silmarilone on January 29, 2004, at 1:33:17
Did you taper off? This shouldn't last more than a week- you're supposed to taper down to the tiniest dose possible and then do your week of withdrawal hell. Fifteen days is a LONG time for this. Did you just stop the full dose? If so, you may want to go back on a portion of the dose for a few days and taper from there.
You crash your serotonin levels when you just quit cold turkey, and you have serotonin in your whole body. Lack of it will affect all sorts of systems, cause the nausea, can mess with your heart function... You have to let your body go back to trying to make it's own chemicals again. A taper signals it to do this.
I won't touch an SSRI cause of this. Been there, and my total sympathy and support to you. And maybe you should call your doc.Lizzy
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