Rebound nausea from hydroxizine

[[Da...]]

I started taking hydroxyzine 50mg last Friday and over the last week I noticed an increase in palpitations, low blood pressure, increase in agitation, panic and anger.

 

Stopped it yesterday and the nausea is by far the worst it's ever been. Could I be having rebound nausea from stopping the med?

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I still think your nausea is mostly from coming down to a lower dose and your benzo receptors in your gut are starting to heal. Plus anxiety will give you really bad nausea. I had it really badly when I woke up the other morning.

 

I also had really bad gastro issues early in my taper. (and have in the past...) Abdominal pain and extreme nausea - although I never threw up.

 

As you get lower, I think this will go away, but it may get a little worse before it gets better. From my experience, you are at a pretty critical juncture with your dose, and by that, I mean that once I got down to .5 and then later .25, I started to feel REALLY good. But before I did, I felt REALLY bad. Endless anxiety, ruminating thoughts, EXTREME health anxiety, deep depression, tons of physical symptoms.

 

Stay the course, try your best to ignore your symptoms and I believe you will find that they will start to go away. The first time I came off benzos (after a good steady dose daily for at least a year), I was convinced - CONVINCED! - I had stomach or colon cancer. So much that I had an endo and colonoscopy in my mid-30's. Everything came up all clear, nothing showed up at all - BUT - they did tell me that my intestines showed some inflammation and thought I could potentially have a gluten allergy or IBS. I had neither. I'm convinced that benzos really, really mess with your stomach and your digestion. Pile anxiety on top of that, and it's any wonder we can get ANY food down at all.

 

Try and relax, try not to think you have something more serious (and if you need to go to the docs to ease your mind, then do so...) I just know that you are SO close to feeling SO much better. I KNOW you are! 

[[Da...]]

How bad was your nausea? Was it constant? Mine is literally 24/7 with no relief.

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Yes, when I had it, it was constant. Also, a gnawing feeling in my stomach - I craved cottage cheese and sour cream, and was sure I likely had an ulcer. (i didn't...)

 

It's happened EVERY TIME I've cut back on klonopin, or when I was in what i now know to be tolerance wd.

 

I would literally open my eyes and BOOM - immediately nauseous. It's such an awful feeling and it feels like you will never get better. LIke you will always feel like that.

[[Da...]]

I'm definitely feeling like I'm in tolerance - so I'm worried that the dlmt won't be enough to get me out of tolerance but I'm scared to do a cut and hold bc my sxs were so bad.

 

I started in tolerance. Had severe nausea.

 

Held a month at Christmas - by week 3 I had severe nausea.

 

Holding for 7 weeks or so now and have had severe nausea.

 

Seems tolerance is an issue for me too and holds won't help me.

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I just made a post how taking .375 doesn't do ANYTHING for me. No help at all. Ugh. I'm in severe distress. (I get really bad circulatory symptoms - feels like veins constrict, my hands swell, my fingers turn blue, etc.) It suuuuuuucks.

 

And my brain, face and whole body is burning now too, which i DIDN'T have after I jumped.

 

I think I really screwed myself up jumping from .25, trying to hold out for 6 weeks, hoping for relief, then reinstating.

 

And I've come off multiple times, although this last time was the LONGEST I'd taken this on a daily basis at such a high dose. I've had a rough time coming off in the past, but it was short lived. Now I'm not rebounding as fast.

 

I'm exhausted. But I continue to push through, because the alternative (staying on this poison) is no longer a valid option for me. We can do this! We can!