Posted by blueberry on September 29, 2005, at 5:25:50 [reposted on September 29, 2005, at 22:25:42 | original URL]
In reply to cold turkey fool-please help, posted by prozac-less on September 28, 2005, at 23:59:38
Do you still have some prozac left? If so, try this. If not, you could probably go to the emergency room and explain the situation and they could prescribe just enough for you to wean.
You will need a glass and some orange juice. Poor a little orange juice into the bottom of the glass. Empty the prozac powder from a capsule into the orange juice. Let it sit for a few minutes (it tends to clump up otherwise). Then fill the glass with orange juice. Stir it up real good. Drink just a 1/2 glass of it (10mg), or even just a 1/4 glass of it (5mg). That should put an end to the withdrawal symptoms or at least diminish them dramatically. Save the oj in the fridge.
Wait until you experience withdrawals again. Might be couple days. Then, grab the oj mix in the fridge, stir it up real good again (the prozac doesn't dissolve and will settle to the bottom) and drink some more...either a 5mg equivalent or less, whatever you think will do it.
Continue doing this without a time frame goal, only taking it when you feel the withdrawals, and each time drink a little bit less than the previous time.
Might take a few weeks, but this will dramatically lessen the withdrawal.
I experienced the same thing with prozac, and the orange juice trick really helped. I could feel the withdrawals fading within hours of my first oj drink.
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