Tried to stop antidepressants

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Just as an update but I spoke to my Doctor on Wednesday and he's going to try and wean me off my Paxil. He wants to drop my dosage down to 12.5 mg extended release for two weeks and then have me take it every other day for another two weeks. I'm sort of scared of how that's going to go but it's worth trying and see what happens. He wants me to follow-up in a couple weeks. Worse comes to worse I can always go back up.

Sounds like a plan - I hope it works out Ok!

Thank you, Cornflake! I appreciate it!

Good luck, and let us know how you get on. Hopefully it will be OK, but you can always go slower if you need to.

Yeah best of luck kid

Thank you, Babybird!

skeletorium Tortusium..... Zembrin ...can be 0btained without a script ,, it works. ( for me)....
Paxil was my standard for many years .. till , I
appeared to realize it was not helping me.. So instead of cutting pills if not practical..started changing the days apart from each other, till I was .. reduced to twice a week ..They had tried me on many different, most all already mentioned had to wean myself off all of them..With various poor effects all the way to seizures from welbutrin until , it seemed that it was not helping, and turned to nutrition ....successfully . and employ use of Nootropics to give me better balance,during the bad days .. once in a while my sinus congestion pills. And a energy drink some days that contain taurine ,amino acid, which helps with recover from any wear off effects.(only difficult days. That ,I know will be hard.) The good nutrition helps your body sustain stressors sometimes.
but these are my experiences...no med advise intended.Best Wishes to you with your situations

^^^^^ Nootropics maynot be adviseable when your on other things affecting your brain .^^^^^
Please allow me to share something a good friend told me....SSRIs , are suppose to be Selective Serotonin Reuptake inhibitors....So if a med is suppose to help your body ration its amounts of available Seratonin . (Making it more available or less available)? But if you supplement your brain/ body with Extra Seratonin ? or the precise nutrients that the human body uses to produce Seratonin ....might be a better way to deal with a long term or short term depletion
of Seratonin. And those are available at some drug stores , most all vitamin stores, they are the Amino Acids your body normally produces to create seratonin....And I agree with my friend from my own experiences , based on that advise.

so alittle bit of extremely well documented Research,books , anything i could find on stuff .helped me alot ....And just like other brain processes, the body may take aweek to get production up to what a average person might need .For whatever dosage you deem safe.
three I tried were Melatonin , L-Tyrptophan,and .L- Theanine. As i have been told stuff you ingest that are food type products, suppLements included,Are used to whatever the body can apply them....and because they are only precusors
was informed that excess supplements most likely will process through , normal body elimination methods....
But after enough experiences people including Doctors , all just make educated guesses, they do not live in my body.
Am wanting know, and research whats ,,what? .....especially with stuff I allow others to suggest that I ingest,that may have psyche symptoms. Know this is a pain, but if you have to see any medical people especially MDs have a friend go with you as a witness.....Modern medicine ..,is not what its cracked up to be imho....My Father was a DO,,Rest in Peace @ 93, old school type Doc .....set the grounds for my Research . And also had a PDR to read. To check prescribed meds out...Real World advise ! ..best wishes
Disclaimer:( Not meant to preclude anyones doctors advise)

Agrees with this post: ^

There may be benefits to switching to a DNRI antidepressant.(Bupropion)
Possible weight loss instead of gain.
Minimal sexual dysfunction.
The downside is it takes a while to be able to sleep again after starting.

If you're already on an SSRI or tri/tetracyclic you will still have to taper from serotonin, and simultaneous administration is frowned upon. (But they let me)