Couch 94 - Blowtorches R' Us

I always did it over the electric coil... Lol.

MY whole body aches even my teeth. Stupid allergies! Can't rest on the couch because I've got my mom and she makes the 13 year old seem mellow!!!

(Yawn) good morning couch! I am already thinking about going to bed early tonight. Yeah I guess it's gonna be one of those days. I am counting down (again, she better come this time! LOL) will be seeing t in 9 days!! Although, I am a little bit nervous about it too.... welp, off to work with me, have a good day (or night) couchies!

Getting off antidepressants --'one on purpose and one because my H lost the prescription and we cannot afford to buy it a second time this month. Made it thru the weekend by concentrating on my kid and my horses. Last night was pretty awful and this morning is not any better. I cannot believe how badly my entire body hurts and how dizzy I am. I am randomly crying as well. Still have not gotten dressed for today. Fingers crossed for me, please, that I can make it thru the day without weeping in front of anyone.

Cold turkey is ROUGH from AD's Be careful. Thinking of you :/

(((((((MKAC)))))))

MKAC - good luck and be careful - I have never taken anti-depressants, but I have heard it is really really rough to go off cold turkey.

it isn't a really good idea to go cold turkey . can you maybe call your pdoc and tell him the situation . sometimes they have samples . if not I hope you feel better soon my friend . hugs

That's a great suggestion granite. MKAC I would second this.

Thanks guys. I am only going cold turkey off the one that was lost. The one is not so bad. I have cold turkey-ed off of it before with no ill effect. And my doctor is not very receptive to the sample issue, because he is a GP and not a pdoc.

It is the Cymbalta that is apparently causing the huge issues, even though the doctor is trying to slowly lower the dosage. There are even lawsuits out there about it because of the drug company's failure to warn doctors and patients about the severity of the withdrawal symptoms.

This is so scary to me. I've been on Cymbalta for 10 years. Getting off of it terrifies me. Are you replacing it with it anything? You have my sympathies. I've heard it's really hard.

There is a such thing as happiness, right? Blah.

Morning/Afternoon couch. Hope everyone is well.

It's elusive, that happiness stuff. I used to find it in alcohol bottles and abusive relationships. Now I find it in Chocolate Cake and hugging my children!

Hope you feel better soon.

Thanks, SM. :/ I have a lot in common with you.

Hopefully I'll find it some day right now I don't. Hard for T to to judge where I am because I'm so used to just being 'good/happy' because that's what I was supposed to be. Have a hard time being 'real' with how I feel I guess. Just get frustrated that I don't actually feel better inside. Shouldn't be this complicated.

Sorry for the morning rant/thoughts/whatever I just said is. Have no idea.

Whatever.

Oh, good afternoon couch! Broke my stupid truck and took it to the shop this morning, does anyone want to commiserate? Apparently one's brake caliper can and commonly does clamp down on one's rotor, causing one's brake pads to become completely obliterated in a short amount of time, thereby causing one's rotor to get chewed into a thin sliver by the now-defunct brake pads. If you ever hear a sound reminiscent of dragging a 15-foot pine tree under your vehicle, I would suggest getting that taken care of sooner rather than later.

And now carry on with your regularly scheduled programming.

MKAC, hope the withdrawals go easy on you and please be careful!

Waves to every other couchie, have a Happy Monday!!

Nothing ever works for very long. I have pretty much given up hope of finding a medication that works. It is just a waste of money

I was thinking that this weekend.. Because even though I am doing ALOT better than I have the last couple of months.. I still was unable to get out of bed much of Sunday and still don't have much of a desire to engage in the outside world, other than my required activities. Hopefully, we will both get there. (((hugs))) to you!

Afternoon couch. I am sitting in art with the kiddos. About had my fill of this school year. Have CVS tonight. Need to decide what to get for supper to stick in the fridge until after CVS. Maybe Subway.

Heard from t this morning, probly will be the 29th now when I get to see her. Its all good as long as I do!!

((((mkac))))
That sucks.

MKAC - good luck with the meds situation. It is scary to think of cold turkey'ing any of them, to me. I never used cymbalta so couldn't speak to that. I was on prozac (prescribed by my primary doc at the time) for a number of years sorta-kinda successfully, until it quit working in 2009 and clinical depression hit full-force and I started seeing an actual pdoc and went on Trazodone and Zoloft. I was primarily using the trazodone to be able to sleep, and it actually gave me very vivid nightmares if I took the full dosage he prescribed, and I ended up going off that one first. When I went off the Zoloft, pdoc had me wean myself off it but I still got brain zaps randomly for the first week or so tapering off. I've been off of both successfully for a little over 2 years now. (The Zoloft literally saved my life back then for which I am so thankful.)

eta: (small rant) well I consider it successfully. my h sometimes says I need to go back on meds because he prefers a zombie who doesn't express feelings, apparently. My feelings are important to me and I tell him what do you think I paid all that money in therapy for, to learn how to feel and express my feelings in a healthy way, NOT to not have them!! (end rant)

Trazodone gave me nightmares, too!

MKAC, I hope you start feeling better soon.

Double-edged sword it was. It made me sleep, but gave me nightmares that I couldn't wake myself up from so I'd scream until my h woke me up. Fun times!

Yippee! You're cured.

I wouldn't call it cured, per se. How about "traded one addiction for another" and "lowered my standards?"

Trying to make my first batch of ramen noodles.