Johnson Bagfoot
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Hi all,
I posted my history and current troubles 2 months ago here: Nightmarish Life After 8 Years On SSRIs
Since then, things have not improved. Im housebound and suffering intense fatigue and anxiety all day and all night. Presumably these are protracted withdrawal symptoms from SSRIs, and the consequence of whatever endocrine/neurological adaptations they've resulted in. It seems almost impossible to know what's wrong, or to skillfully reverse it. It's worsening over time rather than improving.
I think my only option here is to reintroduce SSRIs at some dose and try to become more functional.
Further lab tests that showed mild adrenal insufficiency / low cortisol. Consistently low potassium. Consistently low morning body temps in the range of 96.1f axillary. Consistently low pulse.
At times of highest subjective feelings of anxiety, pulse and temperature are lowest. This is paradoxical, because anxiety would conventionally be associated with a racing heart and fast breathing. The opposite with me.
Peat diet has not improved things. Mirtazapine and cypro significantly worsened things. Presumably by further blunting the existing adrenal insufficiency. I could not get thyroid prescribed due to reasonable TSH of 2. And am somehow unwilling to experiment due to the risk of worsening already unbearable symptoms, and some "hyper" symptoms like profound heat intolerance which doesn't quite fit with hypo.
Overall, I'm wondering if I should just reintroduce SSRI and see if it improves things? It's been 7 months since I went completely off, after a 1 year taper. No sign of improvement.
Can SSRIs have negative effects in low doses (e.g. 20% of standard therapeutic dose)?
Also, if there are any benign suggestions of things to try that's greatly appreciated. Fairly heavy duty stuff like pregnenolone I'm frankly too scared to try, since my condition is so bad that small negative effects cause profound and intolerable suffering.
Many thanks
I posted my history and current troubles 2 months ago here: Nightmarish Life After 8 Years On SSRIs
Since then, things have not improved. Im housebound and suffering intense fatigue and anxiety all day and all night. Presumably these are protracted withdrawal symptoms from SSRIs, and the consequence of whatever endocrine/neurological adaptations they've resulted in. It seems almost impossible to know what's wrong, or to skillfully reverse it. It's worsening over time rather than improving.
I think my only option here is to reintroduce SSRIs at some dose and try to become more functional.
Further lab tests that showed mild adrenal insufficiency / low cortisol. Consistently low potassium. Consistently low morning body temps in the range of 96.1f axillary. Consistently low pulse.
At times of highest subjective feelings of anxiety, pulse and temperature are lowest. This is paradoxical, because anxiety would conventionally be associated with a racing heart and fast breathing. The opposite with me.
Peat diet has not improved things. Mirtazapine and cypro significantly worsened things. Presumably by further blunting the existing adrenal insufficiency. I could not get thyroid prescribed due to reasonable TSH of 2. And am somehow unwilling to experiment due to the risk of worsening already unbearable symptoms, and some "hyper" symptoms like profound heat intolerance which doesn't quite fit with hypo.
Overall, I'm wondering if I should just reintroduce SSRI and see if it improves things? It's been 7 months since I went completely off, after a 1 year taper. No sign of improvement.
Can SSRIs have negative effects in low doses (e.g. 20% of standard therapeutic dose)?
Also, if there are any benign suggestions of things to try that's greatly appreciated. Fairly heavy duty stuff like pregnenolone I'm frankly too scared to try, since my condition is so bad that small negative effects cause profound and intolerable suffering.
Many thanks