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Suddenly stopping anti-depressants: Brain zaps
Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:58 pm
I recently stopped taking Celexa cold turkey. They were prescribed to me not for depression, but by a sleep doctor who said anxiety was messing up my sleep cycle.
I was taking them a little over a year, and have been sleeping great since starting. I have been feeling really lethargic though, and my wife said I have no emotions, like i'm a robot. So i decided to just cut it out this past weekend.
since then i've been having these weird electrical-like sensations running through my head. I googled it and it looks like this is pretty common, and is often referred to as brain zaps. Anybody else experience this? even though it happens to others, still kind of freaking me out...
eta: and i already checked, its not AIDS
I was taking them a little over a year, and have been sleeping great since starting. I have been feeling really lethargic though, and my wife said I have no emotions, like i'm a robot. So i decided to just cut it out this past weekend.
since then i've been having these weird electrical-like sensations running through my head. I googled it and it looks like this is pretty common, and is often referred to as brain zaps. Anybody else experience this? even though it happens to others, still kind of freaking me out...
eta: and i already checked, its not AIDS
This post was edited on 9/24/14 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:59 pm to MasCervezas
I've had them before...after awhile they stop...shite is really strange though...I learned how to enjoy them though
kind of like you enjoy the process of yawning
kind of like you enjoy the process of yawning
Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:59 pm to MasCervezas
you have to taper that med by cutting doses in half, etc. if you do not it will frick you up for about a month or so.
This post was edited on 9/24/14 at 2:01 pm
Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:59 pm to MasCervezas
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Brain zaps
Gross. Give me Crawtaters
Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:59 pm to MasCervezas
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eta: and i already checked, its not AIDS
yes it is
Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:59 pm to MasCervezas
I think those zaps happen every time MSU beats LSU.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:01 pm to MasCervezas
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since then i've been having these weird electrical-like sensations running through my head.
You'll be fine but..
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I recently stopped taking Celexa cold turkey.
Dude.. Don't do that. You're not going to lose your mind and start shooting up a school but why wouldn't you just ween off safely? What was the rush?
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:01 pm to MasCervezas
our poor medicated society
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:01 pm to MasCervezas
I get that when quit taking Ambien. Sucks. I anticipate getting them tonight.
This post was edited on 9/24/14 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:03 pm to Murray
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What was the rush?
i don't know, didn't think it would be that big of a deal. other than the zaps, I've been fine otherwise. I figure i will just ride it out and get it over with
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:03 pm to MasCervezas
i get them sometimes when I'm trying to sleep. I always think I'm having a stroke or something.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:03 pm to MasCervezas
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I have no emotions, like i'm a robot.
What's wrong with that?
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So i decided to just cut it out this past weekend.
Should tell your doctor, although I've done the same thing with Zoloft and some other creepy shite and never told my doc. The only thing getting off Zoloft did for me was give me a rock-hard dick every night for a week or so, painful shite. But that went away.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:03 pm to Fusaichi Pegasus
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our poor medicated society
i'm trying to join your unmedicated society
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:05 pm to MasCervezas
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Tips to manage and prevent discontinuation syndromes Informed tapering can protect patients when you stop a medication.
Vol. 4, No. 9 / September 2005 Sriram Ramaswamy, MD Instructor, department of psychiatry, Creighton University, Omaha, NE Shruti Malik, MBBS, MHSA Foreign medical graduate Vijay Dewan, MD Assistant professor, department of psychiatry, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Abruptly stopping common psychotropics—particularly antidepressants, benzodiazepines, or atypical antipsychotics—can trigger a discontinuation syndrome, with: • rebound or relapse of original symptoms • uncomfortable new physical and psychological symptoms • physiologic withdrawal at times. Up to 30% of patients who stop taking SSRIs develop discontinuation symptoms. 4 Six symptom clusters—disequilibrium, sensory symptoms, general somatic symptoms, sleep disturbance, GI symptoms, and affective symptoms—characterize the SSRI discontinuation syndrome (Table 2).5 The four most common symptoms—in decreasing order of frequency—are dizziness, nausea, lethargy, and headache.6 Ataxia, sensory abnormalities, and possibly aggressive and impulsive behavior differentiate this discontinuation syndrome from that of the TCAs. Discontinuation syndrome risk among SSRIs is highest for paroxetine, intermediate for sertraline and fluvoxamine, and lowest for fluoxetine.4 Citalopram may cause a mild and transient discontinuation syndrome.8 Citalopram’s long elimination half-life (30 to 35 hours) and fewer and much less-potent active metabolites9 may explain its relatively low risk of discontinuation symptoms. Discontinuation reactions have been reported to occur 100 times more frequently with paroxetine than with fluoxetine.10 Fluoxetine’s lower rate could be explained by its 2- to 3-day half-life, compared with half-lives of 33 hours or less for paroxetine, sertraline, citalopram, and fluvoxamine. A longer half-life might protect against a discontinuation syndrome. Atypical Antipsychotic Discontinuation Syndromes Except for aripiprazole—which is a partial dopamine receptor agonist—most atypical antipsychotics are serotonin-dopamine antagonists. Discontinuation syndrome occurs most commonly with clozapine. Clozapine. Abruptly stopping clozapine can exacerbate psychosis or cause delirium, agitation, confusion, and diaphoresis. Less-common symptoms may include extrapyramidal effects, nausea, diarrhea, headache, or restlessness.14 Clozapine is a weak dopamine D2 antagonist and a potent antagonist at the serotonin 5HT2, alpha adrenergic, histaminergic, and anticholinergic receptors. Thus, rebound from cholinergic, serotonin, dopamine and/or adrenergic receptor supersensitivity is thought to cause its discontinuation syndrome.15 Other atypicals. Case reports describe tics and withdrawal-emergent dyskinesia with risperidone16 and supersensitivity psychosis and a cholinergic/serotonergic syndrome with olanzapine.17,18 Anecdotal reports suggest that abruptly discontinuing quetiapine can cause nausea, emesis, lightheadedness, diaphoresis, orthostasis, tachycardia, and nervousness.19,20 Although discontinuation syndromes have not been reported with ziprasidone or aripiprazole, tapering any atypical antipsychotic during discontinuation is prudent.
This post was edited on 9/24/14 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:06 pm to MasCervezas
Doctors are licensed drug dealers.
Passing out pills like they are candy.
Passing out pills like they are candy.
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:07 pm to MyNameIsNobody
oh man...that sounds horrible
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:08 pm to MasCervezas
Tell me about Treadstone!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 9/24/14 at 2:09 pm to MasCervezas
If you'd tapered down, you may have found your dosage was just too high. But honestly, a lot of people get them even if they taper. They go away, or EBOLA.
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