Posted by bleauberry on January 17, 2008, at 21:01:53 [reposted on January 20, 2008, at 3:27:53 | original URL]
In reply to Serzone withdrawal, need some help getting off !!!, posted by garyengelm on January 17, 2008, at 16:22:02
I'm sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. I did get your message. I feel for you bigtime. I've been swamped myself. I apologize.
Though I was on different drugs, I have been in your shoes. And it aint easy. Wow. It's like a survival test from hour to hour every single day.
Lexapro comes in liquid. You could customize your doses by 1mg at a time.
For serzone I think the only option is to continue what you are doing. That is, drop it down slowly in small steps, yet as quickly as tolerable, and jump back to adding in the smallest dose needed when the going is just too rough to sweat it out. Keep the eye on the goal and realize that a step back here and there is no big deal as long as the overall progress is forward.! Kind of like a football team fighting its way down the field toward the goal line.
Hey I wonder, since remeron has similar 5ht blocking characteristics as serzone, if maybe it could help substitute serzone. With its longer halflife, and it being a newer molecule your body hasn't had months or years to get accustomed to, maybe it could serve a role in the weaning process. Just a thought. Another candidate would be zyprexa. The most obvious strategy would be to increase the benzo doses to whatever you need.
With me it was kind of like do whatever needs to be done to fight this battlefield, and then once the battle is won go about cleaning up the mess. Cleaning up the mess aint that much fun either, but it is a whole lot easier than the battle. By that time hopefully the lexapro or whatever else will have had time to take a leading role in your new direction so there won't be much mess to clean up.
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