Posted by cactus on September 14, 2009, at 15:06:15
long story short, taken off 10mg Edronax (high dose) by pdoc, 24hr washout then onto Cymbalta. 2 doses later, very sick boy. Very smart GP picked it up instantly, next day pdoc took my lamictal from 125mg a day to 50mg the next then nothing.
The worst of it is over now but I had NO idea Lamictal causes withdrawal, which for me is very similar to SSRI/SNRI but not quite as intense and slower to come on. So for now I'm riding that one out. What a horrible, horrible 9 days, it has been.
The thing that bugs me most, is that I told my relatively new pdoc that anything with serotonin doesn't really agree with me but he really forced me to try cymbalta. I feel like a total idiot, I never should have taken it. Luckily I didn't have to go to hospital. The couch is my friend for now. I'll never touch Lamictal again either. I got some Atenolol (beta blocker) for my blood pressure which went up to 170/90. It's usually 110/70.
Does Atenolol have withdrawal? Now all I have to do is very, very slowly ditch my clonazepam. Then I'll be drug free again. Why don't pdocs listen? Then again why did I listen to him?
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