Hi. I stopped my SSRI at the direction of my psych provider who is switching me to an entirely different class of med.
Was on 10 mg escitalopram for around 6 months. Reduced to 5 mg for 3-4 weeks and felt physically ok (but not mentally but I’m not sure if that was related). I then took some every other day because I was afraid to totally stop with the directions I was given.
But I stopped completely approx 6 days ago as instructed. Felt totally fine at first. But I started getting a bit dizzy around 3 days in. I am still dizzy now and I feel really bad. :((( It is exacerbated by too much head or eye movement. I didn’t even realize that was from the med discontinuation at first until I did some googling at wtf was wrong with me.
I see my provider again tomorrow and am gonna ask her for some help.
But I’d also to know if anything personally helped you all and how long this takes to go away. Because I am going to be struggling at work and it’s not like I can just take several weeks off of work. And my family was coming to stay over next weekend.
I feel a lot better if I am able to keep my head and eyes totally still but it’s not feasible for me to just lay motionless for an unknown period of days/weeks.
Will anything like Dramamine help? I’ve never taken Dramamine before but since it helps with motion sickness you’d think it might be similar??
Thanks all. :(
For my partner, she had to taper off even more slowly (Lexapro, same thing your on), we went down to 1/4 tablets and below. For lexapro, and maybe others, you can get liquid versions, which we diluted to get well below the tablet dose. It took a few years, but eventually she just forgot to take it one day.
Goddamn a few years???
She did it very slowly and carefully. You may be able to go faster, but she wanted to avoid all withdrawal symptoms. We were dropping by 10% every few months, so it takes a long time at that rate.
Good luck my friend, having only watched it, it doesnt look very pleasant :(