5th day on 15mg

06-03-2008, 10:50 PM

it is my 5th day on 15mg.
Aside from feeling like crap all day, as soon as I try to get to sleep, I am awoken by jolts through my body. These are so severe, I wake up in panic, and cannnot sleep. Its been about 2 or 3 days, and I have gotten maybe 6 hours of total sleep. It is so severe now, as soon as I feel myself falling asleep, I get this jolt through my body, and sense of doom. I am used to about 8 hours of sleep per night. When I was working, I would go to bed at about 9, and wake at 4:30. I was so beat at the end of the day from my job, I would sleep like a baby most nights.

Please tell me this is just withdrawal, and not permanent CNS damage. Its like my body knows that I am about to fall asleep, and jolts.

Alsacienne · 06-04-2008, 03:45 AM

I am SURE that this is due to withdrawal - and very disturbing it is. Please try not to panic about it, because it WILL get better as your body adapts to your new dose level. Do remember to let everything stabilise before you make another drop - in my case at least 3 weeks. I know that the first week is always the worst, and have become used to it, and try to make time for it!

Even if you can't sleep, and I've spent whole nights on the computer, or listening to the radio (quietly) in a darkened room, you can try to relax - use a particular technique that suits you if it helps - and your body will carry you through the next day even if you didn't actually manage to sleep as soundly as you usually do.

Please take heart and stick with your taper. We are here for you xxxxxxx

06-04-2008, 03:54 AM

Do you feel like you cant get any relief? This is so hard to describe. I feel like I am in a constant overtrained state. How you would feel if you did way way too much exercise. like my head is just numb, and I feel I cant catch my breath. Sleeping doesnt feel good, and I dont feel refreshed afterwards. This has to be my CNS

pokie · 06-04-2008, 04:06 AM

How did you taper between the 15-20mgs

06-04-2008, 04:21 AM

I was on 25mg CR for 4 years. I cut down to 17.75 for about a week, then 12.5 for a week or 2, then 6.25 for 2 weeks. 1 week at 6.25, I started getting withdrawal. I stayed there for about a week, waiting for a doc apt, and Thurs night, I took 20mg, then 15mg for the past 5 days (reg paraxotine)

06-04-2008, 04:24 AM

BTW.. about 1 week on 6.25, I cut out all supplements I was taking for about a year. Including: Centrum Multi, Fish Oil, Magnesium oxide (come to find out isnt very good) and was taking ginkgo biloba for about 2 months.

LCrawford67 · 06-04-2008, 05:40 AM

Because of your quick taper, you're suffering w/d symptoms. You're only on day five of updosing and it can take several weeks for the drug to kick back in.

Alsacienne · 06-04-2008, 04:32 PM

We ALL want to get off our SSRIs as quickly as possible, but you have to be reasonable and understand that wanting to is not enough. You have to have patience - sometimes for a very long time - and the strength of character to follow a plan.

Please try to stabilise at a reasonable dose and THEN taper ...... slowly. The plan on this site works well for me. I hope it will do for you too.

staceyw · 06-04-2008, 09:51 PM

you have to go slower on the taper. I too had to learn the hard way.

06-03-2008, 10:50 PM	#1
njmalibu313 Posts: n/a	5th day on 15mg it is my 5th day on 15mg. Aside from feeling like crap all day, as soon as I try to get to sleep, I am awoken by jolts through my body. These are so severe, I wake up in panic, and cannnot sleep. Its been about 2 or 3 days, and I have gotten maybe 6 hours of total sleep. It is so severe now, as soon as I feel myself falling asleep, I get this jolt through my body, and sense of doom. I am used to about 8 hours of sleep per night. When I was working, I would go to bed at about 9, and wake at 4:30. I was so beat at the end of the day from my job, I would sleep like a baby most nights. Please tell me this is just withdrawal, and not permanent CNS damage. Its like my body knows that I am about to fall asleep, and jolts.

06-04-2008, 03:45 AM	#2
Alsacienne Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: France Posts: 448	Re: 5th day on 15mg I am SURE that this is due to withdrawal - and very disturbing it is. Please try not to panic about it, because it WILL get better as your body adapts to your new dose level. Do remember to let everything stabilise before you make another drop - in my case at least 3 weeks. I know that the first week is always the worst, and have become used to it, and try to make time for it! Even if you can't sleep, and I've spent whole nights on the computer, or listening to the radio (quietly) in a darkened room, you can try to relax - use a particular technique that suits you if it helps - and your body will carry you through the next day even if you didn't actually manage to sleep as soundly as you usually do. Please take heart and stick with your taper. We are here for you xxxxxxx

06-04-2008, 03:54 AM	#3
njmalibu313 Posts: n/a	Re: 5th day on 15mg Do you feel like you cant get any relief? This is so hard to describe. I feel like I am in a constant overtrained state. How you would feel if you did way way too much exercise. like my head is just numb, and I feel I cant catch my breath. Sleeping doesnt feel good, and I dont feel refreshed afterwards. This has to be my CNS

06-04-2008, 04:06 AM	#4
pokie Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 3,118	Re: 5th day on 15mg How did you taper between the 15-20mgs __________________ Been on this crap since 1995 First taper 10% 2006 20mg to 8mgs crashed My 2nd Taper attempt! 10/01/08 40mgs 12/9/08 36mgs 01/09/09 33mgs 02/09/09 30mgs 03/12/09 27mgs 04/28/09 24mgs 05/24/09 23mgs 06/09 CBT started 07/21/09 22.5mgs 08/12/09 22mgs 09/03/09 21.5mgs 09/24/09 21mgs 10/16/09 20.5mgs 11/07/09 20mgs

06-04-2008, 04:21 AM	#5
njmalibu313 Posts: n/a	Re: 5th day on 15mg I was on 25mg CR for 4 years. I cut down to 17.75 for about a week, then 12.5 for a week or 2, then 6.25 for 2 weeks. 1 week at 6.25, I started getting withdrawal. I stayed there for about a week, waiting for a doc apt, and Thurs night, I took 20mg, then 15mg for the past 5 days (reg paraxotine)

06-04-2008, 04:24 AM	#6
njmalibu313 Posts: n/a	Re: 5th day on 15mg BTW.. about 1 week on 6.25, I cut out all supplements I was taking for about a year. Including: Centrum Multi, Fish Oil, Magnesium oxide (come to find out isnt very good) and was taking ginkgo biloba for about 2 months.

06-04-2008, 05:40 AM	#7
LCrawford67 Moderator "Everybody poops" Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 26,493	Re: 5th day on 15mg Because of your quick taper, you're suffering w/d symptoms. You're only on day five of updosing and it can take several weeks for the drug to kick back in. __________________ aka LC aka Laurie C. Paxil, 20 mg since 1997, for IBS Two unsuccessful attempts to quit. Started tapering 11/27/06 PAXIL FREE 12/29/07 If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. ~Kevin James

06-04-2008, 04:32 PM	#8
Alsacienne Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: France Posts: 448	Re: 5th day on 15mg We ALL want to get off our SSRIs as quickly as possible, but you have to be reasonable and understand that wanting to is not enough. You have to have patience - sometimes for a very long time - and the strength of character to follow a plan. Please try to stabilise at a reasonable dose and THEN taper ...... slowly. The plan on this site works well for me. I hope it will do for you too.

06-04-2008, 09:51 PM	#9
staceyw Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Louisiana Posts: 644	Re: 5th day on 15mg you have to go slower on the taper. I too had to learn the hard way. __________________ 03/00-30mg - anxiety/panic. 07/07-upped to 40mg d/t anxiety. gained 15 lb, hypomania11/07 - From 40mg to 10mg over 1 mo. Very sick!!!Found PP site. 01/08 -10mg. 2/08, 7.5mg for 2 weeks. Back to 10mg until 4/08. 05/08 7.5mg for 2 weeks, 5 mg for 2 weeks, 2.5 mg for 1-2 weeks. last 2.5mg on 06/05/08.WD seemed to be less physical as it progressed.worst physical symptoms were during my highest dose & during the first months of my taper (zaps, flu symptoms, etc). After that - mostly emotional issues.

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