Hi. I stopped my SSRI at the direction of my psych provider who is switching me to an entirely different class of med.
Was on 10 mg escitalopram for around 6 months. Reduced to 5 mg for 3-4 weeks and felt physically ok (but not mentally but I’m not sure if that was related). I then took some every other day because I was afraid to totally stop with the directions I was given.
But I stopped completely approx 6 days ago as instructed. Felt totally fine at first. But I started getting a bit dizzy around 3 days in. I am still dizzy now and I feel really bad. :((( It is exacerbated by too much head or eye movement. I didn’t even realize that was from the med discontinuation at first until I did some googling at wtf was wrong with me.
I see my provider again tomorrow and am gonna ask her for some help.
But I’d also to know if anything personally helped you all and how long this takes to go away. Because I am going to be struggling at work and it’s not like I can just take several weeks off of work. And my family was coming to stay over next weekend.
I feel a lot better if I am able to keep my head and eyes totally still but it’s not feasible for me to just lay motionless for an unknown period of days/weeks.
Will anything like Dramamine help? I’ve never taken Dramamine before but since it helps with motion sickness you’d think it might be similar??
Thanks all. :(
Yeah I have heard that online so I went for a walk today. I did ok on the walk but then I stopped at a shop on the way home which involved moving my head and eyes around more and then I had to cross the street which made it even worse. So basically now I feel like I’m dying. I felt a little bit better after resting, but now even very small head movements make it really bad and I am even dizzy and nauseous without even moving. :((
Yeah it lasted for lime 3 ish weeks for me. I’ve been through it about 4 times.
You got this.