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I've found aloe vera helpful for digestive problems, too, I hope it helps you. Try not to worry about your weight, just focus on eating little and often and what you can manage. What I learned last time is that not eating actually kind of perpetuates itself, and also puts you into a bad state, it actually can make you worse. So what is important is to keep trying with small amounts of something you can manage, then build on that step by...

Welcome to paxilprogress! While our "title" is about paxil, we have members on every ssri/snri out there. The reality of weaning any of them is to go VERY slow. Only you can decide what dose to return to. Our advice is find the dose that you stabilize at, and stay there a while. You may have to go back to 10mg, since it's probably that first HUGE wean that is getting to you know. Key points to remember....it can take 2-4...

Welcome, JR! We have a few folks who have been on Lexapro and I'm sure they'll be chiming in. One person in particular you may want to PM is, Aeroman. I don't know much about Lexapro, but I do know enough to know your taper was entirely too fast. But, that's par for the course here with any SSRI and the doctor's recommended taper. I would suggest you go back up to the last, lowest dose where you felt stable. If...

Hi carla, Welcome to paxil progress. Poop out, or TOLERANCE, is when some can have symptoms of withdrawal on full therapeutic dose. This means that your mind and body has become used to that dosage, and the drug is no longer working effectively. Crash. This happens as you taper, it means that some are doing well for some time , then symptoms show up out of the blue at an exaggerated force, which means the person then has to either 1) updose,...

Lord Mixter it is as if you could write my story of withdrawal but I'm sure you have not had them as extreme since you know to taper slowly! I had the nose pressure for a very long time and now just comes and goes. Nerves would vibrate so bad that oil breaks out around the nose area. Headaces I am still dealing with coming and going. And the warm feeling, hot spots, then chills. I bet this will subside for you though as you level out....

Hi Terri... Altho we all react in different ways to supplements, I doubt it's the "T". I think it's more probable it's the combo of things that LC said. This time of the year is extra difficult for some people. Some years I feel it a lot... some years very little. Take it one day at a time - try to get in some time for you to just relax. Whatever works for you... down to the smallest thing. Sometimes I pour...

Quote: Originally Posted by nickels Lots of people out there are in this situation...and their doctors will tell them that its a return of their original symptoms and that they need to updose or switch meds. That seems to be really common b/c withdrawal really isn't acknowledged. I completely agree. I think that at some point everybody hits tolerance, but they don't know what is really going on so their doctors either up their dose...

Quote: Originally Posted by pboy This is so damn true, when I first came off SSRI's cold-turkey I never knew anything about protracted withdrawal and now believe that for a good few years afterwards I was suffering from it. Looking back, I became very selfish, depressed, suicidal, anhedonic, socially withdrawn, paranoid. Up until this year I could never understand what was wrong with me, it was like there was something about me that was...

Quote: Originally Posted by rain I think it was LC who said she felt BETTER the lower she dropped. anyone else feel better as they lowered the dose? I am at 5 mg lexapro, I dont think I am going to stabilize to be honest. I was really never stable on this med at 20 mgs. if I dont stabilize at 5mg. would it be prudent to c/t from thispoint?

At this point I am wondering if it makes more sense to ask for the antibiotic rx tomorrow rather than waiting for the test results. I could really use some relief. Plus I don't want to just keep getting sicker on Thanksgiving and ruin it for other people too. Do you think that would be an OK thing to do? Norma