Bluesookie
10-12-2012, 04:33 AM
Hello everyone!
I just joined today and I wanted to share my experience with you.
About a year ago I started feeling nauseated everyday (especially mornings). At first I thought this could be something related to my stomach 'cause I've always had a tendency to feel sick occasionally. But as it became unbearable I knew something was wrong. I couldn't eat, I could get up of the bed, I just felt nauseated all the time. This sounds like I spent a lot of days in this right? It was just 3 days. At the 3rd day I scheduled an appointment to my physician. He made me do some exams, some physical exams just to make sure everything was ok but, when I went to talk to him, I already knew what I had was not physical...
I started taking paroxetine 20 mg/day and bromazepan. I also had therapy to help me cope with whatever was causing me to feel nauseous, nervous , sad all the time, every day. The therapy sessions were very successful since I managed to overcome a situation of 8 years I had not been able to do on my own. After 5 months of therapy I felt really happy and the medication wasn’t making feel bad at all (much to the contrary).
When my psychologist asked me if I wanted that appointment to be the last, I said yes because I felt great, my issues were solved (at least the ones I could solve at the moment) and I had already started a slow tapering that had not given me any trouble so, why not stop the therapy, right?
What happened was that, on the last week of treatment I started to feel nauseous again, I threw up 2 times (which had not happened before), I was very anxious, … I thought I was anxious about stopping the treatment and that was the cause to all the fuss. I schedule an appointment to my physician that same week. On the day of the appointment I decided to google my symptoms and I immediately found websites describing everything I was going through; I realized I wasn’t alone, I wasn’t the odd one out, a lot of people all around the world were going through the same thing (some even worse than me). I have to say I felt better. As they say “misery loves company” and in this case, I desperately needed to feel normal. Can you relate to that?
So, when I went to my appointment at my physician I already knew I was having normal paroxetine withdrawal symptoms so, as I described it to him I said: “If this is going to happen anyway whenever I stop then I’ll endure and do it now, no need of postponing it for 1 or 2 months .” Still, the doctor thought it was better for me to go back on 10 mg every other day, do it for about 3 weeks and then try the 10 mg/2days off in the middle again.
And that's where I am now. Some days better than others but, I'm managing my anxiety I guess.
Thank you for reading this long rambling :)
I just joined today and I wanted to share my experience with you.
About a year ago I started feeling nauseated everyday (especially mornings). At first I thought this could be something related to my stomach 'cause I've always had a tendency to feel sick occasionally. But as it became unbearable I knew something was wrong. I couldn't eat, I could get up of the bed, I just felt nauseated all the time. This sounds like I spent a lot of days in this right? It was just 3 days. At the 3rd day I scheduled an appointment to my physician. He made me do some exams, some physical exams just to make sure everything was ok but, when I went to talk to him, I already knew what I had was not physical...
I started taking paroxetine 20 mg/day and bromazepan. I also had therapy to help me cope with whatever was causing me to feel nauseous, nervous , sad all the time, every day. The therapy sessions were very successful since I managed to overcome a situation of 8 years I had not been able to do on my own. After 5 months of therapy I felt really happy and the medication wasn’t making feel bad at all (much to the contrary).
When my psychologist asked me if I wanted that appointment to be the last, I said yes because I felt great, my issues were solved (at least the ones I could solve at the moment) and I had already started a slow tapering that had not given me any trouble so, why not stop the therapy, right?
What happened was that, on the last week of treatment I started to feel nauseous again, I threw up 2 times (which had not happened before), I was very anxious, … I thought I was anxious about stopping the treatment and that was the cause to all the fuss. I schedule an appointment to my physician that same week. On the day of the appointment I decided to google my symptoms and I immediately found websites describing everything I was going through; I realized I wasn’t alone, I wasn’t the odd one out, a lot of people all around the world were going through the same thing (some even worse than me). I have to say I felt better. As they say “misery loves company” and in this case, I desperately needed to feel normal. Can you relate to that?
So, when I went to my appointment at my physician I already knew I was having normal paroxetine withdrawal symptoms so, as I described it to him I said: “If this is going to happen anyway whenever I stop then I’ll endure and do it now, no need of postponing it for 1 or 2 months .” Still, the doctor thought it was better for me to go back on 10 mg every other day, do it for about 3 weeks and then try the 10 mg/2days off in the middle again.
And that's where I am now. Some days better than others but, I'm managing my anxiety I guess.
Thank you for reading this long rambling :)