I quit 20mg cold turkey, when and what symptoms will occur?
Ive been on 20mg for maybe 2 months. First 16 days was the best days of my life. Then I had a bad event woth a substance becaude my body wasnt used to the fluoxetine. I skipped a day and then went down to 10mg. I was only on it for a week before I begged my doctor to bring me back up again as I was in a worse state than before my medication.
For a couple weeks I was in a bad state but slowly got better. About 2 weeks ago I was completely used to the medication, I could use substances with no negative side effects such as serotonin syndrome. However I hate the medication I do not want to be on it. I only went on it because I could not handle living at home anymore and I needed help from medication.
Now ive just been wanting to get off it, the last two weeks I was skipping days but now I haven’t taken my dose for about 5 days. I only have one tablet left anyways of the 20mg.
I despise prescriptions I really do and I don’t think there is any that could help me. I’d rather stick to non prescription things such as ashwaghanda energy I found to help me jave clarity, be less stressed, more calm, have more energy, more uplifted.
I am too lazy to taper off the medication, plus from what I have heard all the cold turkey symptoms are the same symptoms you may get while you are on the medication, which is the symptoms i was already struggling with. So really thete is no difference.
What the fluoxetine made me feel was just not caring. It didn’t exactly numb me, I just didn’t care about anything. Didnt care about myself, my friends, my family, my future, my school work, my job. I just simply didnt care. It kind of did help me push through school however it only gave me the bare minimum. I only just passed my exams (except one) because I winged it, didnt study becaude I didn’t care. And during the exams I didn’t feel that stressed because I didn’t care.
However it doesnt give me that idgaf feeling when I’m at home which is when i need it most. As of now, i havent had any baf symptoms. At first j had a headache every day but it’s been gone now. I have felt more alive, more me, I feel that I care more. I just need to make sure I can get some medicine without a prescription to replace the fluoxetine. So if anyone has any other recommendations please let me know. Ashwaghanda energy works wonders for me, as well as taking b vitamins except apparently my b vitamins are fine.
Im just going to suck it up. Whatever happens happens. I just need to get off the medication. Not sure when I can expect symptoms or what they will be though.