Posted by g_g_g_unit on March 13, 2008, at 4:24:58
In reply to Re: So confused about where to go next :(, posted by bleauberry on March 10, 2008, at 22:01:27
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> Definitely stopping meds cold turkey will mess you up. Even if you were only on them a week, not to mention a month or more. I guess it probably varies from person to person, but for me I have noticed that after stopping a med even after weaning off it carefully, it really takes a solid 3 weeks to 3 months to stabilize at some new baseline. But that baseline is never the same as the one before taking the drugs. The drugs, in my opinion, do change the game, even long after they are gone.
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>sure, it's reasonable to expect that the drugs will change the game, but i just worry about how drastically. i also feel at this point that i need to start taking more responsibility for myself. prior to this incident, i - in accordance with doctor guidance, of course - believed that i could just go on a pill for a while and if it didn't work out, okay then, let's just cut it out my system and move onto the next. i pray that this foggy disassociation doesn't count as a permanent part of what you refer to as an alterted baseline, though i suspect not since there's probably countless incidents of people going onto ssri's for short periods and ceasing them abruptly, considering that all the doctors/pdocs i've encountered have advised that (at least where a long half-life was involved). so i now have three boxes of lexapro sitting on my desk beside me. i am scared. considering i began to feel normal again w/ the prozac i am very tempted to just begin lexapro, now knowing of course that a taper would be essential in the off-chance that things didn't work out. then again, i also don't want to act out of impatience, i.e. trying to cancel out what might be part of a discontinuation syndrome by just going on another pill. but i can't really live the way i feel now. i'm seeing a naturopath tomorrow just to cover diet bases etc. nevertheless, the lexapro is calling out to me lol. pending i give it a safe trial, bleauberry (in your esteemed opinion of course - and by the way thank you for your considerate & thoughtful responses to my threads) is there no real reason to believe that it could cause permanent 'brain damage' thru compounding with the effects i'm already feeling? :/
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