Posted by Robert_Burton_1621 on March 2, 2015, at 0:11:02
In reply to SSRI withdrawal symptoms really scare me!, posted by fido on February 26, 2015, at 20:34:17
> When coming off I got brain zaps after a few days and felt sick. ....Then I got onto Cymbalta. The brain zaps vanished. Cymbalta didn't work. Now I have been off Cymbalta 2 days and the zaps are back and I feel really bad.
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> This is starting to scare me. What if this doesn't go away anymore at all?!This is not a discontinuation symptom that you should considered to be clinically or medically "scary".
> This means I am basically forced to get back on a SSRI ONLY to get rid of the withdrawal! But once I stop the SSRI with brain zaps will come back and they will probably be even harder to get rid off the longer I have been on a SSRI.
>I don't think this is true. One reason the discontinuation symptoms began so soon (after three or four days off each of your medications), is because of their relatively short half-lives. If you bridge for a month using a small dose of an SSRI with a very long half-life, like fluoxetine, you are likely to find that you have no brain zaps while you are on it and none when you come off. That was my experience precisely and I have no continuing issues at all after having had SSRI therapy for 5 or 6 years.
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