Posted by Lou Pilder on May 21, 2012, at 19:58:03
In reply to Re: SSRI-Induced Brain Injury / Protracted Withdrawal, posted by BBolling on May 21, 2012, at 17:53:55
> 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).
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> 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...
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> I've tried naturopathic stuff, diet modification, etc., without any success.
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> Thanks for all the responses.BB,
You wrote the above with questions.
As to if the drugs caused what you describe and do you need to go back on SSRIs, even though you say that they {seemed to cause these horrible problems}.
Well, as to if those problems are drug induced, the answer is that they could be, for the drug manufacturer has to disclose what they know could happen to those that take their drugs. So if you have those effects from the drug, why would you want to go back to the drug?
Now there could be damage to parts of the brain from the drug, parts that {regulate} body processes such as sleep, and the others that you describe in this post and other posts. Now if you keep putting the chemical in the drug back into your brain, would that be rational?
Now if it is healing that you desire, I can help you. There is a thread started by me here titled, Lou's Little Garden. I intend to show how one can be led out of darkness and into a marvelous light and have healing and receive a new life. This comes from a Jewish perspective as reveled to me and there are prohibitions to me here from Mr. Hsiung that could prevent me from posting what IMHO could help you to heal, and prevent others from learning from me, and IMHO prevent me from saving lives and help people avoid getting a life-ruining condition or addiction. You could go to the admin board here and see more of that, if you like.
Now as I see your condition, healing could come true, it could happen to you, for you have a head-start. This healing is free and without price and can happen now. If this is something that you do not believe could be true, then reject this opportunity. But if you do believe that healing can happen, then take this opportunity to go to the thread here titled, Lou's Little Garden and we could hve dialog there.
Lou
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