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I'll make this short. After 6 months and 2 weeks, I am having what appears to be protracted recurrent withdrawals, which are withdrawals that all of a sudden seem to return after a period of getting better. I am having severe abdominal cramps, general sick feeling, sleeping problems, and I have to force myself to eat. I have gone from 204 to 167, but have been at 167 - 168 for 19 days. I have significant fatigue, no stamina, feelings of doom, wondering if this is ever going to end. Also, thoughts of going back on the drug. This has been horrible. If you are Christian, please add me to your prayers to Jesus. I need His help. I have been to the Emergency Room several times for chest pain, abdominal pain, and stroke symptoms, all of which were negative, including the labs (blood work). Thanks for any prayers sent on my behalf. David
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It seems to help a lot of people.
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Does your wife work,and your left alone with your own thoughts?
How do you spend your days? What can you cope with?
Im not prying but as you well know I'm in your predicament as well.
I find the more time I have alone with time to think about my health the more Depprest I feel. Being around people or loosing yourself in something helps,
no it don't go away but helps.
God David I wish I could wave a magic wand and all would be right,but I can't so I have to keep pushing on looking for a reason for our pain.
Don't know if I should say this to a married man, but love you
David please don't give up. Keep talking.x
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you may in turn move towards the wellness you now deserve.
I hope tomorrow is a brighter day, and that each day brings you a sign that you are healing
Wishing you well David x.
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Please keep reading inspirational books and look for the good, it is there. With warm wishes & kindness.
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I am so sorry to know that your dreadful suffering continues.
Each one of us on this forum seem to have a different experience although many of us can feel this is the most difficult time ever!
I agree with Betsy that One Day at a Time is the only way to deal with this.
It is so hard to think in a positive way when we are in pain and feeling so retched.We then wonder if tomorrow may be even worse and how long will it be before we feel better.
It is now 10 weeks since my last mirt after tapering from 30mg.
There were many times when taking the 7.5 dose and then nothing when I felt close to death but my mantra of This Too Will Pass helped to keep me going.
Over the past weeks I have often been tempted to 'have a small dose' to hopefully relieve the horrible issues of WD.
I am also looking after my husband who is WD from mirt.
He has been on 45mg and tonight he will start 7.5mg.
Any way I have some good news!
Just over a week ago I started to take 5-HTP just before going to bed and yesterday and today I feel so much better!
My anxiety was dreadful and heart rate and BP very high.
The insomnia just makes every thing worse as we know.
Any way a friend told me about this supplement which is said to help anxiety and promote peaceful sleep.
I must admit I did not expect things to change but being able to have a few hours sleep is wonderful and my anxiety has improved.
I know this may be no help at all but when we are so low I think it is worth trying to find some thing which may help.
I have continued to walk my little dog each day even when I was so weak and in a lot of pain.
Fresh air and some excersise is beneficial even though we just want to curl up!
David with all my heart I hope and pray that what ever you decide to do now your decision will bring you the peace and well being you surely deserve.
I hold you in my thoughts.
Sunbird
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Many of us, myself included, have gotten a jeweler's scale that can measure miligrams. You can get them from Amazon for about $22-25. I have the Gemini 20. I bought empty gel capsules to put the fragments into after weighing. With binders, my Mirt pills weigh 10 times what the active ingredient dosage is. So, for a 30 mg pill, it weighs 300 mg. Your 7.5 mg tablet should weigh 75 mg. If not, you would simply weigh those tablets and then reduce by 10% of that weight. So from there, your first cut would be 10%, 7.5 mg off the gross weight, so 67.5 mg, round up to 68 on a 75 mg pill. These little scales can jump around a lot between weighings, so you will want to recalibrate often (they include weights for that) and take multiple measurements before calling it good.
Each month you will taper 10% of the PREVIOUS DOSAGE. That means the next month's dosage would be 10% off of 68 mg, so minus 6.8 mg. Again, round UP. I weigh and fill gel caps ("00" size from Amazon, pretty cheap) for the next month all at once so that I am not tempted to cut prematurely.
Finally, these scales do not do well at the very low end (such as 5 mg), so when you get that low you will want to see about getting a script for a liquid version, made by a compounding pharmacy, which can be measured with a 3 or 1 cc syringe. Some folks try to make their own liquid suspension grinding up the pills and mixing in water, but you need to be good with math, plus the powder is not super soluble in water. You'd need to get the powder as fine as possible and shake well before drawing up a dose, have proper containers for mixing and measuring, etc. Anyway, I'm getting way into the nitty gritty when you aren't there yet.
There's lots of support to be found, including info on how to taper, make solutions, etc. on surviving antidepressants dot com.
You can do this!
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