antidepressant withdrawl

[L'engle]

FWIW, I have found that I have developed an extreme reaction to MSG in all its forms, causes severe insomnia - e.g., I made fish tacos the other night, had bad insomnia and then found "modified food starch" on the label of my green taco sauce - it had never affected me before. So you might try avoiding sources of msg, if you haven't already.

OK that explains several years later why I once didn't sleep an entire night after eating tacos with a flavor mix.
Had that once from the powdered flavoring in noodles. I've gotten away with it occacionally in recent years and just got a headache. I guess things can change over time. Why does MSG have to taste so good.

 

[Mary]

Why does MSG have to taste so good. (

My question is, why do they have to put MSG (or one of its derivatives) in virtually everything??? I had low potassium symptoms middle of the night (foot/lower calf spasms), drank a glass of low-sodium V-8 (quite high in potassium ) - yep - was awake the rest of the night. Checked the bottle in the morning and it had "natural flavoring" - just bad bad bad! I actually wrote to them about it and they never responded.

 

[L'engle]

My question is, why do they have to put MSG (or one of its derivatives) in virtually everything??? I had low potassium symptoms middle of the night (foot/lower calf spasms), drank a glass of low-sodium V-8 (quite high in potassium ) - yep - was awake the rest of the night. Checked the bottle in the morning and it had "natural flavoring" - just bad bad bad! I actually wrote to them about it and they never responded.

Now that it's called "yeast extract" it's been rebranded as a health food and put in everything, health store food included.

 

[forestglip]

I'd like to come off my Fluoxitine (prozac), but i tried to before and it was too difficult because of the withdrawal effects. I want to ask a question to anyone else who has withdrawn from these drugs.

I'm on 20mg and want to know, would for example, taking a pill every second day have the same effect as switching to 10mg?

Cause i'm not sure if i can get 10mg pills in the UK.

Please see The Withdrawal Project at innercompass.org. When withdrawal is this bad, you need to taper EXTREMELY slowly. Like a teensy fraction of a pill per day, or 10% per month.

How do you decrease by such a small amount? There's various ways, as detailed on the website I linked. The way I did was dissolve the pill in water, then use a syringe to remove exactly the amount necessary every day.

I was impatient before this. I kept trying to get off the med (clozapine) in a few months at most. The withdrawal anxiety was unbearable and I always restarted, one time even ending up on a much higher dose to deal with the withdrawal.

Finally, with the guidance from the site (you don't need a lot of help, it's basically the process I described above) I tapered slowly over the course of a little more than 3 years. Even at that rate, it was pretty bad, but still bearable. I could adjust the rate on the fly to get the perfect balance of minimizing withdrawal symptoms just to where I could live with it.