Loss of taste anyone?

Chrissy · 10-13-2011, 04:08 PM

My latest appointment with my GP was the first time I have been given any sensible information regarding my ongoing problems after going cold turkey from prozac just over 17 months ago. All I got for over a year is "we don't know how these drugs work or about any longterm users adverse effects".

As my thought process and ability to put those thoughts into words, sentences, is slowly returning, I managed to convey most of what I had been suffering over the past year and a half (I had told him before, but I was an uncontrollable mess, crying all over the place every time I went to see him)

I expressed concern that I still could not taste anything other than very sweet, i'm talking about 5 sugars in my tea to taste, salty and sour.

He offered an explanation - that it was my nerves. I was told that these as well as all my other problems would come back over time, maybe not as they were before, but that they would return. Is this confirmation that the doctors know what these types of medications can do?

He also told me (about the no emotions - whatsoever, good or bad), that I've been deconditioned? What does this mean? I only know that I am completely different to what I used to be and hope I can get back to the predrugged me. I think that maybe everything is wiped from the brain and you have to relearn how to feel, I have no emotional response to the present or past, the past especially used to have high emotional response from me. I just wonder if I regain my feelings will I ever feel the same about past events or are they gone forever? Anyone with any experience of this and could give light to what happens?

10-13-2011, 04:08 PM	#1
Chrissy Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 96	Loss of taste anyone? My latest appointment with my GP was the first time I have been given any sensible information regarding my ongoing problems after going cold turkey from prozac just over 17 months ago. All I got for over a year is "we don't know how these drugs work or about any longterm users adverse effects". As my thought process and ability to put those thoughts into words, sentences, is slowly returning, I managed to convey most of what I had been suffering over the past year and a half (I had told him before, but I was an uncontrollable mess, crying all over the place every time I went to see him) I expressed concern that I still could not taste anything other than very sweet, i'm talking about 5 sugars in my tea to taste, salty and sour. He offered an explanation - that it was my nerves. I was told that these as well as all my other problems would come back over time, maybe not as they were before, but that they would return. Is this confirmation that the doctors know what these types of medications can do? He also told me (about the no emotions - whatsoever, good or bad), that I've been deconditioned? What does this mean? I only know that I am completely different to what I used to be and hope I can get back to the predrugged me. I think that maybe everything is wiped from the brain and you have to relearn how to feel, I have no emotional response to the present or past, the past especially used to have high emotional response from me. I just wonder if I regain my feelings will I ever feel the same about past events or are they gone forever? Anyone with any experience of this and could give light to what happens?

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