Posted by fido on March 1, 2015, at 18:35:23
In reply to Re: SSRI withdrawal symptoms really scare me! » fido, posted by Robert_Burton_1621 on March 1, 2015, at 18:21:35
hello,
the book is in german so except you can read german giving you the name of the author will probably not be much help. it's from a female professor woggon. a swiss psychiatrist who treats hard cases.but neither wellbutrin nor cymbalta worked for me. they both work on noradrenalin. because of this i rather think that noradrenalin uptake inhibitors dont work for me. i could try strattera of course but i am also scared of withdrawal. since i got withdrawal from ssris i am now more afraid of drugs. i mean all the time nothing worked for me but i also got no side effects. but now i have the brain zaps. this makes me feel even worse.
what do you mean with "when the combination is taken under supervision"? a serotonin syndrome can happen at any time from what i read. it can kick in weeks after starting the treatment. this is very scary! i also dont even know if my doctor would even dare to prescribe ssri+amphetamines when there is a risk. he might as well say this is too risky for him.
i just googled psychiatrists in my area. there are a few ones with good reviews but this also doesnt have to mean that they really are good.
what i fear is that going to other doctors and getting different opinions will leave me totally clueless. i mean what if i go to a new doctor and he suggests something totally different or something which scares me? then how do i decide what to do? or what if he wants to send me to a mental institution? this wouldnt help me AT ALL.
it would only make me feel worse. but many doctors simply say this. if they dont know how to help they simply say you gotta go to a mental hospital for a few weeks. but this is nothing for me. this would not solve ANY of my problems. i would go there and suffer and probably get worse.
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