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Post by cheshire on Jul 28, 2007 14:26:25 GMT
Thinking of youx
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Post by helenr on Jul 28, 2007 20:14:07 GMT
Hi Clarey,
you're wondering the same thing as me, whether although we're recovered, perhaps we will always have some residual effects of PNI. Think I'll start a thread and get some advice.
Keep going hun, your fantastic!
love and hugs x
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Post by clarey on Jul 31, 2007 12:30:22 GMT
Thanks Helen and Hopeful,
I have just dropped down another tablet so I'm on 2 a week now. I am feeling so tired again. I just feel exhausted and I have had a decent nights sleep last night. I just want to lie down all the time. I suppose it is my body getting used to this lower dose again. I didn't realise just how much energy the prozac were giving me...
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Post by winegirl on Jul 31, 2007 20:15:11 GMT
Hi Clarey
Well done on dropping the dose! It is bound to have strange effects on you but hopefully they won't last long.
I hope you are feeling much better very soon
Winegirl x
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Post by Jay on Aug 2, 2007 7:16:40 GMT
I just wanted to say HI
You have often talked and supported me. And I have been around all the time but not too well and shut in blinkers and not really reading anything or helping anyone.
I just wanted to say well done on reducing the antid's. You are doing really well.
I send you lots of love Jay xx
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Post by clarey on Aug 16, 2007 20:59:23 GMT
Thank you winegirl and Jay for your posts. I am still on the 2 doses a week and as far as that is concerned all is well so far. I hope to stop altogether in a couple of weeks so fingers crossed...
We would like a little brother or sister for our son. I am very afraid of what this may mean as far as the PNI goes but it is something I've always wanted. I am so broody and I don't want to let the fear of PNI stop me from this. I feel I would be in a better position if there is a next time to spot all the signs earlier.
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Post by clarey on Aug 18, 2007 12:07:42 GMT
It is a year ago today that I went into hospital. It is hard to believe that a year on I am in a much better place and even trying to come off meds. I look back and can't believe how bad things were back then. Time slows down when you are severely depressed and anxiety-ridden and as you come out of it, it speeds up again. I remember nights taking an eternity to pass huddled in a corner, terrified and panic-stricken......days spent dozy from diazepam. What a year it has been. I have learnt so many things about myself and about others I feel a different person really.
No going back now....
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Post by cheshire on Aug 18, 2007 16:22:30 GMT
It's so true about time slowing down in the early stages. So glad for you that things are still on an upward trend
Hopefulxx
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Post by clarey on Aug 29, 2007 20:43:31 GMT
I'm still feeling ok at the moment and now very nearly off the meds altogether. I can't believe I'm even writing this really. I still have moments mostly at night or when I first wake up in the morning that I feel anxious but after a little while I'm ok again.
I did have a couple of days a week ago or so where I felt quite down but I had had a night out and it is the alcohol that leaves me feeling like this. I still haven't had any caffeine though as I think my system is still quite sensitive.
I can't believe my son will be 2 next month.
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Post by cheshire on Sept 5, 2007 12:48:35 GMT
Glad to hear you're doing ok Hope you and your son enjoy his second birthdayx
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Post by clarey on Sept 5, 2007 13:21:06 GMT
Thanks Hopeful.
I have now completely weaned myself off the prozac. I have gone from 2 a week for the last month and am now stopping. Part of me is really frightened by this but I have to bite the bullet at some point I suppose. Weirdly it is almost a year to the day that I started them.
I didn't have such a good day yesterday and I reminded myself of what I used to be like before the meds a bit. I am going to keep a close eye on how I'm feeling and if I feel I am slipping I will go straight back on them as I don't want to go through what I have been through again.
I don't feel in all honesty I am fully recovered but I am getting there.
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Post by winegirl on Sept 5, 2007 15:21:59 GMT
Hi Clarey
Glad it is going ok at the mo coming off the meds. I have just started the prozac and am having a really bad time with them but am hoping it helps in a couple of weeks x
Keep us posted with how you are getting on?
Winegirl x
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Post by clarey on Sept 15, 2007 20:25:07 GMT
Thanks Winegirl, I hope you are getting on ok now with prozac it did take me ages to begin to feel any better.
I am having some bad days creeping in at the moment. I haven't had any prozac now since the end of august but I have had a number of reminders of how I used to feel. It is very frustrating.
My right side feels achy as well which is a physical symptom that left me a number of months ago now. What the hell? I don't understand why a physical symptom would come back so soon. I am feeling very demoralised at the moment.
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Post by winegirl on Sept 16, 2007 18:34:40 GMT
Hi Clarey
It could just be your body readjusting to being without the meds. Have you mentioned it to your GP? Well done on getting tis far again without them! x
Winegirl x
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Post by clarey on Sept 18, 2007 21:22:22 GMT
I am unsure whether I am experiencing a blip at the moment or need to be back on the meds. Anxiety-wise I am not too bad. I have been more depressed/tearful and suffering from depersonalisation and paranoia. Today has been a bit better but I fear it would only take something small to put me over the edge so to speak.
I am determined though (or stupid) to ride this one out and see what happens. I want to make sure that it isn't just a blip and I will feel better in a few days/week or so.
It is my sons birthday soon and I have been organising a party which is something I could not have done in a zillion years not so long ago so perhaps I am putting stress on myself. Also my parents have been a bit funny with me recently which goes back to an issue they have with my OH. I am in the middle and it is a uncomfortable place to be really. Sometimes I wish I still had my counselling so that I could unload all this and perhaps it could prevent meds at the end of the day.
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