pills and side effects?

flashy · 16-11-2008, 10:40

Well, after being on Prozac for almost 12 months, i've come off them, been off them for just over 2 weeks, the doctor doesnt know yet, i just came off them on my own....

Before i was on Prozac i was taking Citalopram (then that awful Mirtazapine)

are you supposed to get side effects when coming off them?
i havent had any yet, would they have come before now if i where to have any?

i bought some evening primrose oil the other day and i've started taking those, just incase

K-P · 16-11-2008, 10:50

I had side effects taking them not coming off.. I had tegretol for a few years when i was in early 20s . I didnt realise how the effects had snuk up on me (until too late) and decided to come off them.. Been on a few different ones since.. including new experimental type ones (explains a lot eh haha) and at the end of the day i decided the cure was worse than the problem ... got so bad that apart from pain killers i wont take tablets.. certainly not long term... rather be in complete control of my mind and brain

So no effects coming off... but i found too many being on them.

flashy · 16-11-2008, 10:55

thanx for that Kipax, i didnt have any side effects whilst on them (well i dont think i had, others may tell you different) i thought i may have had some since stopping them but i havent, iam i over it? will they be completely out of my system by now?

K-P · 16-11-2008, 11:01

Diff people, diff effect, diff amount of time to get out system..

As for you not knowing if they effected you.. that was my propblem.. i didnt know... but it did.... i took em for yrs though

flashy · 16-11-2008, 11:10

i've always had a quick temper Kipax, thats partly why i went on them in the first place, my doctor put it down to me not grieving for my late mother properly(who died 17 years ago today) but i didnt think that was right, a few years ago i would fight with someone just for looking at me the wrong way, within just a few months i had fights with 2 sisters on the next street(both at once and both older than me), my sister and my sister-in-law, i didnt hurt them badly but they had a few black eyes and several bad bruises

i havent had 'that' urge for a while, i wasnt on the tablets at the time i was fighting...but saying that, i have threatened a few people since being on them....so i reckon being on them actually stopped me lashing out

K-P · 16-11-2008, 11:34

The problem with those tablets and the ones I had are that they do effect your mood.. there designed to not let you get to excited about something or too depressed about something... long term this puts you in one even mood... no real ups or downs... I dont mean a trance.. just one average mood.. and thats not right for a human being.

moonshiner · 16-11-2008, 13:08

Ive been takin medication now for quite afew years to help calm me down
i cant control my self when i lose my temper.one of the tablets i was taking was soroxate, the side effect is you become suisidal
Iknow because it was happening to me

now im just mad

flashy · 16-11-2008, 13:21

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Originally Posted by moonshiner

Ive been takin medication now for quite afew years to help calm me down
i cant control my self when i lose my temper.one of the tablets i was taking was soroxate, the side effect is you become suisidal
Iknow because it was happening to me

now im just mad

what tablets are you taking now?

moonshiner · 16-11-2008, 15:57

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Originally Posted by flashy

what tablets are you taking now?

Hi flashy im takin trimipramine and 1 zopicloe at night other wise i cant sleep un less ive had a few pints

flashy · 16-11-2008, 20:32

so one is an upper and one a downer then?

fossie · 16-11-2008, 20:40

What u need is the love of a good man.

Lilly · 16-11-2008, 20:50

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Originally Posted by fossie

What u need is the love of a good man.

Ey up, Flashy......I think you've scored!

flashy · 16-11-2008, 20:50

nah i think i'll leave that till my heads a bit more straight

K-P · 16-11-2008, 21:35

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Originally Posted by moonshiner

other wise i cant sleep un less ive had a few pints

Thats the route I have gone... I am not a big drinker and it doesnt take much.. bit of a drink and zonk

Beats the hell out of drugs

jaysay · 17-11-2008, 12:16

They once put me on Prozac I only took one, I was crawling up the wall, I' on Dothiapin now which seem fine. One tablet which does have serious side effects are steroids, not the body building ones, but corticoid steroids, I have been on them 22 years, I need them to control my asthma, but I now have osteoporosis in the spine which is painful 24/7, because of which I've lost near 4 inches in height over the last 18 years and they also brought on cataracts which I had removed about 5 years ago. Your skin also bruise very easily ad your skin becomes very thin and gives it an aged look