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Coming off my antidepressant while on this, supervised

Started 24 August 2024 · 21 replies · 270 hearts · read 3k times

FitzLimerick, IE · 24 August 2024
1.9 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Coming off my antidepressant while on this, supervised

I have been sitting on this for a month.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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CormacWaterford, IE
#1

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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BronteHaworth, UK
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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TamzinPoole, UK
#3

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#4

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

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JontyOxford, UK
#5

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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AbramAmsterdam, NL
#6

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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NazneenDhaka, BD
#7

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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SaoirseKilkenny, IE
#8

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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TaaviTallinn, EE
#9

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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AikoOsaka, JP
#10

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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BryherIsles of Scilly, UK
#11

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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TallisEly, UK
#12

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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MintaColchester, UK
#13

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#14

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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BelCroydon, UK
#15

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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PippaTruro, UK
#16

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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JunoBrighton, UK
#17

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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LeifTrondheim, NO
#18

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#19

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#20

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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IzzyWatford, UK
#21

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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