A Functional Medicine Model for Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome

[@amygentry4351]

I'm so glad I found this channel. Boy have I got a story for anyone who wants to listen. It's quite devastating but necessary to be heard

[@Gaba.Groove]

I wanna hear it! ❤

[@andreazara4467]

Me too

[@Aseeyah-vt9kl]

You’re not alone

[@ingano5174]

Tell us

[@zanzah_]

Thank you for this information. I just did my week of hell going cold turkey off opioids. The effexor 150mg is my next challenge. This info is super helpful. Im convinced 20 years on this medication was the reason for multiple bone surgeries failing to heal over the past few years ie inflammatory markers.

[@cheylou1]

Cold turkey off of which opioid? How redoing today?

[@patriciatimson1730]

Coming off Effexor has to be slow! Take a couple of grains a week, can take up to six months or more.

[@patriciatimson1730]

Sorry take out 2 grains at a time.

[@zezezep]

I think in years, not months, for tapering off, after more than 20 years on

[@knowledgeos]

reality of psychiatry... very good information

[@hypocriticalpacifist]

I take all these supplements and started a very slow taper and still had withdrawal symptoms. If serotonin receptors have been pruned due to having an excess of serotonin in the synapse from extended ssri use supplements will not cause them to immediately regrow.

[@sweetxgirl1357]

That's what I was afraid to hear 😢

[@annaharvey8739]

I've been on Citalopram for 21 years. I have tried reducing but never been successful. GP's are lacking knowledge to support people with any level of decrease so we are stuck on the medication, supposedly for life?! Will return to this again. Thank you for the insights and information.

[@BongBlasta]

what dose?

[@annaharvey8739]

@@BongBlasta 30mg

[@ll6658]

@@annaharvey8739 reduce by 10 percent every 2 -4 weeks until you get down to 5 mg and then take liquid and reduce by 0.5 mg every 2-4 weeks\

[@AhappypersonwithGod]

Don’t give up! I am off 2 weeks now. It has totally sucked, but it is getting better!!! If I knew it would be this awful I would have done it a totally different way.

[@ljsc1265]

Bead counting isn't humorous to those of us doing it because we can't get help from mainstream medicine. Most functional medicine doctors will not be covered by medical insurance. Who are you laughing at exactly? The current medical model, including psychiatry, has failed people like me. That sir is no laughing matter.😢

[@jeanf8998]

It’s so hard. I hope you can find help. See Dr Josef Witt on KZbin.

[@ginakendrick2581]

Do you have online help

[@mariarooney6262]

Fantastic. Thank you so much

[@CoastConrad]

What stops the vertigo/floaty feeling/loss of balance? I take in Thorne B Complex, fish oil, mag, D, probiotic, diet, sauna, run, weights, sleep you name it

[@Aseeyah-vt9kl]

Time…

[@nitroelectric5170]

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[@zezezep]

The vertigo !!!

[@FolaRemi62]

You just answered a question that I have been desperately searching forward. Thank you @FolaRemi62

[@FolaRemi62]

@@zezezep I KNOW! Thank for letting me know I do not have a brain disorder

[@sierra8330]

How can I use this to get my 12 yr old who’s been on Zoloft (which helped soo much initially) but I think it’s time to reduce because it’s giving him side effects effecting his appetite, he has tics and he’s a aloof and indifferent and has low energy. He also has adhd.

[@Snowflake1374]

Very good information. True. Misinformed for 15 years on SSRI.

[@coldshot5555]

How convenient for BIG PHARMA...

[@claireh.7605]

Their med caused brain damage when you stop which ramps up your symptoms and creates new ones you didn’t have before, which makes you go back on more meds. Conveniently they don’t bother studying what happens after you stop them and if your brain gets damaged when you do. It’s just a phenomenon in the dark and a hidden hand that creates more demand for their meds.

[@lucianogoyenechea8704]

how on earth all this information is no common knownledge... idk if i could finally leave desvenlafaxine after 18 yrs... in Argentina none doctor know this

[@zezezep]

Venlafaxine 18+ years

[@JackieDuncan-o7k]

Can’t get a copy of Medicine for Withdrawal. I am in UK and only sample available in Kindle

[@geoffsansom]

Great info , thank you !

[@Snowflake1374]

IMPORTANT info. It is INDIVIDUAL. No one understood my brutal WD, tapered off zoloft too fast by Dr. Life destroyed. 10 months off and can't work. Hardly walk.

[@michellewilson1221]

What is a good serum vit D level? My recent one was 44, considered in lab range.

[@rohitthukral3413]

Can anyone explain in short....what should i do as i have stopped medicine

[@brendansmyth5053]

Misdiagnosed and overprescribed….It’s a perfect business model for big business 🙄 Most patients find it to hard to get off so they stay on them for life. $$$$

[@Vancouver_1986]

I want to highlight "informed consent". In any other industry besides Healthcare, it'd be a legitimate lawsuit/malpractice. We had zero idea about what we were getting ourselves into. "How do these drugs work exactly?" We were never given a clear answer/explanation. It was always something vague, and it was mumbled, and we were rushed out the door. Doctors/Psychiatrists/etc will always shy away when you start mentioning the term + the term "iatrogenic injuries" while on the drug(s) (poly-drugging) itself/themself (side-effects) or off of it, even for YEARS later. How could they know if they've never been on these Pharmaceuticals themselves or experienced getting off of them? Once I realized that, the anger went down. But the medical gas-lighting is still extremely extremely inappropriate, heart-breaking, and quite frankly, unethical. They say our motivation to supposedly lie/embellish/hyperbolize is that we're attention-seeking/histronic/fearful/dramatic/cluster something rather disorder/borderline personality disorder/etc. But that couldn't be further from the truth. The drugs themselves make us angry. Or we experience anger while in withdrawal/discontinuation, even extremely slowly. These drugs don't really treat anything. The 'chemical imbalance' theory isn't evidence-based! And you can't stop these Pharmaceuticals "once your life is going better again". These drugs are basically side-effect pills, and it feels like we're taking street drugs. Our quality of life is REDUCED, the exact ***opposite*** of what these drugs's intention is and "treatment". These drugs are keeping us out of the workforce even permanently or severely limiting us, and most of us haven't even contracted SARS-COV-2 once yet. So, there are financial consequences for us - the clients, and not the medical professionals. I still cannot believe that these Pharmaceuticals are legal. They're not evidence-based! (At least, for us, who don't legitimately have BiPolar #1/#2 & Schizophrenia.) Psychiatry is outdated and a dying industry, as is alcohol and tobaco. And same with animal agriculture. Animals will no longer need to be murdered once lab-grown meat starts. I cant't wait. Get rid of all of those gas chambers and slaughter-houses and turn that land into housing for people. You know, in any other industry besides health-care, this would be a legitimate law-suit/malpractice. edit: I use the word discontinuation, because withdrawal implies that Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals are a medicine for our quality of life, which isn't even remotely true, as there is NO chemical imbalance. Withdrawal is kind of good to use, from my perspective, because it highlights the severity and unethical aspect of it. We never gave informed consent in the first place. So, I see the benefits of both words.

[@perhagman6112]

Intressant.

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