Posted by BBolling on May 21, 2012, at 17:53:55
In reply to Re: SSRI-Induced Brain Injury / Protracted Withdrawal » CaffeinePoet, posted by gadchik on May 21, 2012, at 6:21:50
Thanks for the many thoughts. I have desperately been looking for sleep, but it's been elusive, no matter what medication I've used. Without any medication, I can only get about 3-4 hours (whereas I regularly got 8 hours until discontinuing the Celexa). I was on Remeron for 3 months, and it got me 7-8 hours of sleep, but I felt terrible on it during the day (fogginess and fatigue) and finally tapered off it. Since then, the sleep has remained a huge problem. I've tried benzodiazapines, ambien, etc, but those usually only get me 4-5 hours of sleep, and cause serious agitation the next day after they wear off. Trazodone sometimes helps with sleep but it, too, makes me feel terrible the next day (dizziness, fogginess, agitation).
The question that hounds me is: do I need to go back on SSRIs even though an SSRI seems to have caused these horrible problems? Did it so affect the brain that I now can't live without one? And yet when I tried to go back on Celexa I couldn't tolerate it...
I've tried naturopathic stuff, diet modification, etc., without any success.
Thanks for all the responses.
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