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Hi-I’m on 150 mg of nortriptyline and 125 mg of traz. I jumped up this past Friday from 125 mg of nort and 75-100 mg of traz. Since then, I’ve been jittery, shaky, eyes hurt and foggy. Also increased anxiety. I’m wondering if this is due to the increase in meds or just plain old anxiety. I also gave birth two weeks ago, so hormones might be at play. Thoughts?
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I'm not sure if I'll up the dose. My GP prescribed the nortriptyline and klonopin. I see a new neurologist on 5/1 so I'll talk to her about what I should do next. I'm just going to work on getting off of klonopin in the meantime. Hindsight is always 20/20, but I wish that I'd made the move to traz which is much less addictive. Ugh.
Good luck tonight. I would think tonight wouldn't be so bad being the first day that you're off of it. What time zone are you in? Keep me posted. It's nice having someone who understands what you're going through! How many days were you on 25mg?
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Last night was fine-but I read it can stay in your system for like six days so next week might be bad. Ugh!! I hate this! It’s goid your seeing a neurologist, maybe they will have new idea or confirm nortriptyline is the right choice. How are you going to taper the klon? Might be worth getting on traz while tapering or something else so you can still get some sleep.
I know-it’s so nice chatting about this stuff!! I was on it for about four days.
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I'm on the east coast too - Pennsylvania. Your a trooper for getting off of this different meds. I'm going to cut down slowly. I'm still not feeling good. Not sure if it's the effects left over from augmentin, the klonopin or the nortriptyline. I just increased my dose back to 25mg a week and a half ago. It's so frustrating. I'm shaky in the mornings, have ringing in one ear, head pressure, overall feeling anxious still. It's so strange for me. The only thing I can think of is to get off of klonopin so that at lease I'm on one medication and can see what it's doing for me.
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That’s smart. Hopefully it’s the klonopin. I too am shaky in the morning along with jitters and out in stomach. Didn’t have that until I reduced, so it’s either withdrawal or actual anxiety. Ugh-it’s the worst getting off meds! I suck it up and try to get it over with. Good and bad idea. Did you have those symptoms before or with increase?
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How’ve you been feeling?
mere03725 heather24624
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Not that hot-have sinus infection. Not helping me feel better. Blah. I’m seeing my doc on Thursday, hoping to get some answers.
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I'm actually headed to the doctor tomorrow - it's supposed to be a check of my ears for the infection, but I've already given them the heads up that I need to talk about my medication and how I'm feeling.
Hope that you feel better and that you have a lot of help at home with the little ones!!!
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The doctor thinks that the depression is related to my decreasing and then increasing my dose. I've been back at 25mg for 9 days. She said that it can take 2-4 weeks to be stable. Feeling a bit better today - how about you? Did they give you an antibiotic for the sinus infection?
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I feel like garabage. I’m sure it’s a mix of being sick and anxiety/withdrawal. Sucks!!
heather24624 mere03725
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She wrote me a script for 35mg if I was worried about the depression continuing. She also suggested that I talk to a counselor about all of the stuff that I've been through recently with these meds along with how I'm feeling.
I hope that it's more sickness than withdrawal!
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Do you think you will take more? Interesting she thinks it’s from lower dose. https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/05/02/nortriptyline-withdrawal-symptoms-duration/
I read this today. I have a lot of these symptoms.
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I sent you an email / pm, let me know if you get it
I did increase to 35mg last night. I'll give it a few weeks to settle in, I'm hoping that the increase to 25mg levels out in the next couple of days.
How are you feeling?