Posted by Conundrum on October 12, 2011, at 5:50:09
In reply to Re: Nardil, I wanna stop taking it. » Conundrum, posted by SLS on September 28, 2011, at 11:33:28
So I decided to stick it out and try going up to 75mg along with half a 12.5 mg desipramine. The whole 25mg pill of desipramine made me too nervous and even the half pill is pretty stimulating.
Luckily the class I'm in isn't too intense and I have some pretty smart knowledgeable people in my project group so that lets me relax a little compared with previous semesters.
So Nardil still makes me indifferent towards class and career path among other things ( remember anhedonia is my core symptom :-/ ), but at least the brain fog has seemed to clear especially now that I've been getting to bed early, even though I wake up around 3-5 every night.
So this past Saturday I was at Grandmom's Sister In Law's funeral. We came in late and sat down before being able to say "sorry for your loss" to the family. First off I hate saying that cuz it is not how I would really talk. I'd like to say, " this f*cking sucks." The second thing to bother me was that I could remember my Aunt's kids but not their children or spouse's names. So I started trying to remember their names and then my mom, who is legally blind did a reading which she stumbled through despite the large font she had printed. I knew she shouldn't have done the reading but she is one of those people who can't say know if they are asked to do something for somebody.
So all this was going on and I started to feel light headed and then I started to have trouble breathing. I started to worry I took a left over SSRI with Nardil by accident instead of desipramine. Eventually I couldn't stay in the church and went outside and walked around. My vision was doubled a little and I just felt out of it. I started coughing when I was outside. After the mass my grandpop drove me home and we skipped the burial. I couldn't stop yawning in the car and I got home and ate and went to bed where I couldn't stop stretching my legs cuz they felt funny and I even had diarrhea.
I have never experienced anything like this in my life and a lot of my family thought it was a bug but it felt nothing like that. My mom asked if I thought it was the Nardil and later on she told me she had a similar thing happen when she went up to 5 pills a day.
I do believe that one or both of these meds caused this unusual reaction to the anxious thoughts that I normal handle without issue. So I cut back to 3 pills a day and even smaller amounts of desipramine for a couple days. Now I'm back at 5 pills. I still have some nervousness even though I've only been taking a quarter desipramine pill.
Hopefully I'll notice something soon or be able to stop the med. I don't really wanna have to go up to 90 mg which I think will be a waste. I have heard there is a 1mg/kg rule and if that were true I'd need 90mg or even a little more, but I'm not sure if that is really true. I can't imagine that the drug will stop making me apathetic at that dose instead of more.
Complaints: post-SSRI problems: anhedonia, memory and concentration problems, sexual anhedonia. )
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Currently taking 2.5 mg prozac, Multi B vitamin
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