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I'm switching meds and turning into a monster

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blushingm · 01/12/2007 16:46

i've been weaning myself off venlafaxin over the last 8 days and have just got through half and daay of 4 without anything before starting on fluoxitine (sp). Since the minute I got up this morning i have been unbeliveably short tempered shouting at ds dd and dh, the smalles thing makes me explode. at the same time i just want to disolve into tears. my head is pounding i can feel my heart beating and with each beat it's like i'm having electric shocks.

I can't have this fir the next 3 days and then the getting used to the fluoxetine and i really don't know what to do - i haven't felt like this since just after dd was born 18 months ago. my head really hurts as does every joint and muscle of my body. I'm also having horrible vivid dreams when i'm asleep and i can't stop replying them when i'm awake - what do i do???? Anyone had this and survuved???

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deenymcqueenygoreandguts · 01/12/2007 16:51

im where you are at the mo, weening off cipralex and feeling the same.
i am a horrid screaming bitch of a woman who doesnt deserve any thing.
wouldnt mind if a bus hit me.
been to the docs. he uselessare you going back to docs? have you a good doc?

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blushingm · 01/12/2007 16:57

i have 3 weeks til i see the registrar and cpn is meant to ring me to make an appointment to see her again. i haven't seen my gp since september - i feel like i'm just wasting everyones time and if i keep going back their patience (no pun intended) will run out. I was waring i might feel a bit off but nothing like this - i really just want to explode - i just want to disappear and never come back i'm just making eveyone elses life miserable

do you mind me asking why you are coming off cipralex deeny - this is absolutely awful isn't it? It makes me think whether i want to even start the new stuff cos i'll just have to finish it at some point won't i and then i'll feel horible, it's just delaying the inevitable

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deenymcqueenygoreandguts · 01/12/2007 17:12

trying for a baby.

some of feelings are withdrawl, some are PND creeping back i think.
just dont feel human or "normal".

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blushingm · 01/12/2007 17:22

i don't know what human is!!! How long have you been taking yours?

Good luck with the baby dancing (i love that phrase ) how many do you have now?

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deenymcqueenygoreandguts · 02/12/2007 20:44

been on them for about 2 years. Have one child and went on them because of PND when my lo was 2!

today i feel a bit better.
friends came round for coffee, did NOT want to see them, was thinking of excuses to put them off. they came round and it was ok.
feel less erm "frantic" and mad today. lets see what tomorow brings.

how long have you been on them blushy?

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blushingm · 02/12/2007 22:33

was on citalopram since dd was 2 weeks - she's 18 months now. changed to venlafaxine this time last year

not too evil today but the electric shock things are worse and i feel like i'm trembling all over what i imagine parkinsons must be like - i keep missing the keys when i'm typing

i'm always making arrangments and when the time comes racking my brain for ways to get out of it.....apparently part of my 'illness'

How have you been trying to reduce them? Isn't there something you can take when pregnant?? Seems shame to stop them if they help??

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deenymcqueenygoreandguts · 03/12/2007 12:13

Oh im the Queen of excuses me. Got an excuse for every occasion.
I forgot to take a couple then just stopped. my own stupid fault.
need to go back to Docs and find out if there are any alternatives.

Am not well mentally. really not well at the mo.

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blushingm · 03/12/2007 20:04

me neither - have been wreck today - sobbing over everything and nothing - i'm sure everyoone would be better off without me i just want to go to sleep for ever and ever

poor ds has been yelled at over everything - i even stopped the car at the side of the road and told him to get out - poor thing hadn't done anything, he's only 5 for god sake......what is wrong with me?????????????? i'm so ashamed - he said he was scared of me

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twinsetandpearls · 03/12/2007 20:06

an AD I was on once made be permanetly angry, have been on fluoxotine so it may have been that one.

I can remember the vivid dreams and aching body - with me it was my jaw - that does die down.

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blushingm · 03/12/2007 20:12

i just want it all to go away....i want to be dead.....i can't feel like this anymore............

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deenymcqueenygoreandguts · 03/12/2007 21:25

blushing, make an appointment for your Dr, you are right, you cant feel like this any more. Get help...then come with that help and help me hun. We can do this, come on keep talking to me.
You understand.

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blushingm · 03/12/2007 22:03

i can't

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