What will I be like?

Sunnysideup · 01-12-2009, 10:03 PM

I've been on ADs so long I don't remember what I'm like without them. I've been on Paxil 1st sinc 1998 and the Celexa since 2001. All I remember is alot of anxiety before, but probably less outgoing and more energy. Of course since being on I put on 100 pounds so the energy may not come back till I lose the weight. Its just scarey to me not remembering what your personality was like and if I'll be the same as before or totally different? I beginning to think I'll never get off b/c everytime I start to taper I get such scary symptoms I don't stay at the lower dose for long. I really messed up right now. Plus I have Psrosis and Psrosic Artritis which is like Rhumetoid A. so I am in alot of pain and can't hardly move around much, I wondering if this will improve or worsen when I get off ADs??

been there done that · 01-13-2009, 01:35 AM

I started with prozac in 1990 so I do understand as I too have been on the drugs a long time. I am not too concerned about being nuts once I am off as I was put on prozac for back pain. As for my life it can't get much worse so I don't have anything to lose my back was against the wall when I quit and I will never take an ad again as long as I live. I do not know much about arthritic pain and disease but I have found that as I am recovering from ct 13 months so far my body has much less pain today than when I quit. I have gone thru some very intense bouts of pain in various parts of my body that indeed I call my body bones and spine unseizing as that is how it feels like my body has been held in very painful vicelike position for way too long so long infact that the normal positions of my body are painful. Of course it may very well be the constriction of muscles as described in antidepressantfacts post on the pineal gland I can only say what it feel like as I do not have my own diagnostic equipment and I find doctors are uncooperative they would rather label me with conversion disorder and shove me out the door. I was also told I had chronic fatigue fibromyalgia I now think that was a pain reaction to another antidepressant it is my opinion that antidepressants cause pain not help it so hopefully you will feel better after you are off the drugs a year or two. good luck

01-12-2009, 10:03 PM	#1
Sunnysideup Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Winder,Ga. Posts: 307	What will I be like? I've been on ADs so long I don't remember what I'm like without them. I've been on Paxil 1st sinc 1998 and the Celexa since 2001. All I remember is alot of anxiety before, but probably less outgoing and more energy. Of course since being on I put on 100 pounds so the energy may not come back till I lose the weight. Its just scarey to me not remembering what your personality was like and if I'll be the same as before or totally different? I beginning to think I'll never get off b/c everytime I start to taper I get such scary symptoms I don't stay at the lower dose for long. I really messed up right now. Plus I have Psrosis and Psrosic Artritis which is like Rhumetoid A. so I am in alot of pain and can't hardly move around much, I wondering if this will improve or worsen when I get off ADs??

01-13-2009, 01:35 AM	#2
been there done that Banned Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 1,856	Re: What will I be like? I started with prozac in 1990 so I do understand as I too have been on the drugs a long time. I am not too concerned about being nuts once I am off as I was put on prozac for back pain. As for my life it can't get much worse so I don't have anything to lose my back was against the wall when I quit and I will never take an ad again as long as I live. I do not know much about arthritic pain and disease but I have found that as I am recovering from ct 13 months so far my body has much less pain today than when I quit. I have gone thru some very intense bouts of pain in various parts of my body that indeed I call my body bones and spine unseizing as that is how it feels like my body has been held in very painful vicelike position for way too long so long infact that the normal positions of my body are painful. Of course it may very well be the constriction of muscles as described in antidepressantfacts post on the pineal gland I can only say what it feel like as I do not have my own diagnostic equipment and I find doctors are uncooperative they would rather label me with conversion disorder and shove me out the door. I was also told I had chronic fatigue fibromyalgia I now think that was a pain reaction to another antidepressant it is my opinion that antidepressants cause pain not help it so hopefully you will feel better after you are off the drugs a year or two. good luck

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