Or is this just the way things are when you stop taking them and the discontinuation lasts a long time?
I was on 10mgs escitalopram for 2.5 years. I took six months to wean down in increments and stopped completely at the end of January. By then I was taking a crumb of a pill in the mornings.
I felt fine for two weeks, and then had some nasty physical side effects, which my pharmacist reassured me were normal and would pass.
And they did.
But then I developed a crushing, overwhelming depression just before my period was due. It would lift as soon as my period arrived, but it was shockingly bad and the depths of it really scared me.
I had always had some kind of PMS but it went off the scale after my son was born.
I think the antidepressant masked a lot of it because it was really only when I came off escitalopram completely that the premenstrual mood hit the floor and I wanted to climb under the covers and stay there for a week. I think it's PMDD.
The minipill doesn't agree with me at all, my doc won't give me the combined pill because I'm over 35 and still smoking a cig a few times a day (I'd been off cigs for 8 years before PND sent me crazy and back smoking)
I'm just after another week of hell, my period arrived but this time I'm not bouncing back like I have done before. I'm just so tired of this rollercoaster. I put a lot of work into getting well when I had PND.
I did a lot of counselling, CBT and a course in mindfulness and worked really hard on myself.
Life was good, I felt well and strong which is why I thought it was time to come off the antidepressant.
Has anyone re-instated an antidepressant after 4 months off it? How was it?
I'm just so tired of feeling like this. I'm so disappointed, I really thought I'd weathered the antidepressant withdrawal storm. I don't think I'm depressed but just feel so flat and 'meh' about life, until then I get 7-10 days of utter premenstrual hell every month.
My GP is useless.
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Please help - do I need to go back on antidepressant
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violator · 08/05/2014 16:20
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