Psycho-Babble Withdrawal Thread 886663

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type-2 brain zaps

Posted by Methadon't on March 23, 2009, at 10:39:36

I think we need to organize a Brain Zap Association and sue the manufacturers of these drugs.
And all doctors should know of the withdrawal symptoms and understand how to safely taper a patient. It's APPALLING how most of them just tell you "it's non-addictive" and think you're imagining these very real things!
I too was only on 50mg of Zoloft when I decided it wasn't really helping. The office nurse definately advised me to not just stop, so I made an appointment to get a lower-dose refill. But this doctor was clueless and said I was already at the "minimum dose" (whatever that means) -- I should have asked for the nurse!
Then he had the GALL to charge for an office visit, while my gut feeling was that this was wrong. So on the way out I told the receptionist "I'm cancelling" and didn't pay.
As with the rest of you I had these weird symptoms in my head, but only for about a week or so.

Now, some years later, I am tapering off a narcotic and have the same thing when it's close to dosing time. It's like clockwork. At least now I know what to call them and that there's nothing wrong with my head! I get a brief aura (fullness?) and hear a swishing sound and a thump, repeated several times; and it feel like my eyeballs are jerking back and forth. Like another poster, eye movements can trigger all this. There's also an off-balance feeling. When they're severe, they are almost disabling because you can't comfortably use your eyes and can't concentrate.
I don't usually describe it as electrical, and I don't have the neck & arms involvement, so that's why I call them "type-2."

I suggest anyone who isn't able to taper slowly or is having problems anyway stock up on brain food: B vitamins are very important, and I'd suggest amino acids you can get at health stores, like 5-HTP, tyrosine, phenylalanine, and GABA have all worked for me in place of antidepressants.
Good luck!

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