Really need help! 10 months off Xanax, still on Zoloft

[[Ma...]]

Well my symptoms continue to get worse and more intense everyday!

 

The severe head pressure burning numbness tightness and physical pain pain in my head is so severe in my forehead above and behind my eyes the top of my head the right side of my face down the right side of me neck in my temples my least ear is completely clogged with pressure can't hear out of it and extreme pain and pressure anytime I move or try to stand or do anything other than lay down! Extreme fatigue and nausea light headed and dizzy it's horrific!

 

I can't breath it's so intense with extreme anxiety feeling like I'm crawling out of my own skin completely non functioning at all it's the worst it has ever been and continues to get worse everyday and is just as bad now as it was before and right out of the hospital if not worse!

 

The emotional symptoms are so severe as well completely confused severe DP/DR feeling completely detached from myself and reality severe intrusive thoughts brain fog and cognitive issues I really feel like I'm completely losing my mind and having a psychological breakdown and I'm so scared that I'm not gonna make it or end back in the hospital were they will just make it worse!

 

As far as the Zoloft this is the second time I've been on it was on it back in 2012 when my panic attacks started for about a year and a half before it stopped working and my panic attacks came back and then of course the Prozac for two years after that and then last may after being off the Prozac for 5-6 months was trying to reinstate after my divorce when all my symptoms came flooding back in and that didn't work was switched over to lexapro and that was a nightmare for over 2 months then was taking off it and realized what the Xanex was doing to me tried to taper that for two months and the severe tolerance WD and probably kindled got so bad I ended up in the hospital and I feel just as bad now as I did then if not much worse after 10 months off the Xanex and of course now I've been back on the Zoloft for 10 months and I've never even known really what it was doing helping or making this so much worse because the Benzo symptoms have been so consistent and severe!

 

So on the Zoloft I feel like this is hopeless cause it seems the Benzo WD is just now peaking out at 10 months and obviously on a major horrific wave with that and after my history with the Zoloft and the other AD I don't know what it's adding to this or if it ever helped and whether or not it has completely turned on my already and getting no benefit from it at all if I ever did and that scares me!

 

What do I do in this situation? So I have to stay on a drug that may be making me worse and not helping at all? And if it hasn't turned on me there is now way it will hold for 2 years only worked a year and a half before and that was before all these other drugs and o really don't know what to do here because my symptoms are quite severe and I'm really losing hope this will ever get better and it seems like I'm in a impossible situation can't work can't exercise can't take care of me or my kids feeling like I'm getting worse everyday and the symptoms over the last few weeks and even the last couple of days have reached levels I don't know if I've ever experienced before so I really don't know what to do here at all?

[[Ma...]]

Well my symptoms continue to get worse and more intense everyday!

 

The severe head pressure burning numbness tightness and physical pain pain in my head is so severe in my forehead above and behind my eyes the top of my head the right side of my face down the right side of me neck in my temples my least ear is completely clogged with pressure can't hear out of it and extreme pain and pressure anytime I move or try to stand or do anything other than lay down! Extreme fatigue and nausea light headed and dizzy it's horrific!

 

I can't breath it's so intense with extreme anxiety feeling like I'm crawling out of my own skin completely non functioning at all it's the worst it has ever been and continues to get worse everyday and is just as bad now as it was before and right out of the hospital if not worse!

 

The emotional symptoms are so severe as well completely confused severe DP/DR feeling completely detached from myself and reality severe intrusive thoughts brain fog and cognitive issues I really feel like I'm completely losing my mind and having a psychological breakdown and I'm so scared that I'm not gonna make it or end back in the hospital were they will just make it worse!

 

As far as the Zoloft this is the second time I've been on it was on it back in 2012 when my panic attacks started for about a year and a half before it stopped working and my panic attacks came back and then of course the Prozac for two years after that and then last may after being off the Prozac for 5-6 months was trying to reinstate after my divorce when all my symptoms came flooding back in and that didn't work was switched over to lexapro and that was a nightmare for over 2 months then was taking off it and realized what the Xanex was doing to me tried to taper that for two months and the severe tolerance WD and probably kindled got so bad I ended up in the hospital and I feel just as bad now as I did then if not much worse after 10 months off the Xanex and of course now I've been back on the Zoloft for 10 months and I've never even known really what it was doing helping or making this so much worse because the Benzo symptoms have been so consistent and severe!

 

So on the Zoloft I feel like this is hopeless cause it seems the Benzo WD is just now peaking out at 10 months and obviously on a major horrific wave with that and after my history with the Zoloft and the other AD I don't know what it's adding to this or if it ever helped and whether or not it has completely turned on my already and getting no benefit from it at all if I ever did and that scares me!

 

What do I do in this situation? So I have to stay on a drug that may be making me worse and not helping at all? And if it hasn't turned on me there is now way it will hold for 2 years only worked a year and a half before and that was before all these other drugs and o really don't know what to do here because my symptoms are quite severe and I'm really losing hope this will ever get better and it seems like I'm in a impossible situation can't work can't exercise can't take care of me or my kids feeling like I'm getting worse everyday and the symptoms over the last few weeks and even the last couple of days have reached levels I don't know if I've ever experienced before so I really don't know what to do here at all?

[[Ha...]]

This hurts my heart because I know your pain.  I tried SSRIs and benzos for a short time and now 2 years later off the meds I'm still fighting.  It's like being in a straight jacket from hell.  Zoloft destroyed my nervous system. 

[[Ma...]]

I'm sorry to keep bothering everyone but things are so bad and I feel like this is hopeless and their is no end in sight and I'm losing hope!

 

As bad as this has been over the 10 months I've been off and since Detox last October and even as bad as it's been since the beginning of month 7 when I noticed the first increase or wave or change in my condition this wave or whatever it is has just about taking me out over the last few weeks and just seems to be getting worse worse to the point I don't know if I'm gonna survive this both the physical and emotional symptoms are the worst they have ever been and I don't know how much of this is Benzo WD and what the Zoloft is adding to this nightmare but it just keeps getting worse!

 

The physical pain pressure burning numbness and tightening in my head is so severe I can't hardly bare it and can't do anything! The pressure has always been in my forehead on top of my head down the right side of my brain above and behind my eyes in my temples but know it's increased to where both sides of my head have so much pressure and pain right ear completely clogged right side of my face and head are completely numb and pressure there and the top of my head is literally on fire and it feels like someone has my brain in a compacter and is taking a fish hook and stabbing it into the middle of my brain and pulling on it!

 

This wave has come with major anxiety feeling like I'm crawling out of my own skin can't set still distractions aren't working getting pain and tightness in my chest from the anxiety hard to breath, severe nausea light headed and dizzy just physically sick all over!

 

The emotional symptoms are more severe now than they have ever been and are really scaring me the dark place my mind has gone! Severe confusion DP/DR no short term memory brain fog and cognitive issues and horrific evil intrusive thoughts including SU/HM ideation and it is just as bad now as before I went into the hospital if not worse!

 

I don't understand after 10 months it's this bad and just keeps getting worse and I'm holding on the Zoloft as suggested and I'm constantly trying to distract and rest can't work can't exercise can't do anything this is horrible!

 

I don't know what to do here it just keeps getting worse and I feel like I'm completely losing my mind and having a psychological breakdown and the physical pain is unbearable and I feel like this is hopeless cause I don't want to go back in more drugs and I know the Zoloft may be making me worse but everyone is telling me to try and come off it now would make things even worse and I'm literally holding on by a thread here and don't know what to do?

[[Ma...]]

I'm sorry to keep bothering everyone but things are so bad and I feel like this is hopeless and their is no end in sight and I'm losing hope!

 

As bad as this has been over the 10 months I've been off and since Detox last October and even as bad as it's been since the beginning of month 7 when I noticed the first increase or wave or change in my condition this wave or whatever it is has just about taking me out over the last few weeks and just seems to be getting worse worse to the point I don't know if I'm gonna survive this both the physical and emotional symptoms are the worst they have ever been and I don't know how much of this is Benzo WD and what the Zoloft is adding to this nightmare but it just keeps getting worse!

 

The physical pain pressure burning numbness and tightening in my head is so severe I can't hardly bare it and can't do anything! The pressure has always been in my forehead on top of my head down the right side of my brain above and behind my eyes in my temples but know it's increased to where both sides of my head have so much pressure and pain right ear completely clogged right side of my face and head are completely numb and pressure there and the top of my head is literally on fire and it feels like someone has my brain in a compacter and is taking a fish hook and stabbing it into the middle of my brain and pulling on it!

 

This wave has come with major anxiety feeling like I'm crawling out of my own skin can't set still distractions aren't working getting pain and tightness in my chest from the anxiety hard to breath, severe nausea light headed and dizzy just physically sick all over!

 

The emotional symptoms are more severe now than they have ever been and are really scaring me the dark place my mind has gone! Severe confusion DP/DR no short term memory brain fog and cognitive issues and horrific evil intrusive thoughts and it is just as bad now as before I went into the hospital if not worse!

 

I don't understand after 10 months it's this bad and just keeps getting worse and I'm holding on the Zoloft as suggested and I'm constantly trying to distract and rest can't work can't exercise can't do anything this is horrible!

 

I don't know what to do here it just keeps getting worse and I feel like I'm completely losing my mind and having a psychological breakdown and the physical pain is unbearable and I feel like this is hopeless cause I don't want to go back in more drugs and I know the Zoloft may be making me worse but everyone is telling me to try and come off it now would make things even worse and I'm literally holding on by a thread here and don't know what to do?

 

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[[ne...]]

Hi!  I am right there with u.  I have been off all my psych poisons 4 just over 2 months and I feel like I am just getting steadily worse day by day, minute by minute.  I have all the symptoms u r describing especially the burning brain, and burning, tingling, numbness, vibrations throughout body and head, chronic insomnia (no sleep most days and nights, adrenaline surges, myoclonic jerks, difficulty breathing, feeling like I will lose my mind or drop dead at any moment and the list goes on.  This is truly inhumane torture at its worst.  I am totally alone and am terrified this will never end.  I am trying 2 distract but not having much luck doing so as I am in such pain.  Two nights ago I was able 2 get about 6 hours sleep but always the next day the horrendous symptoms come back and remain 4 several days. 

 

I also don't know if I am going 2 make it through this if this doesn't subside soon.  I can barely function right now and just want some peace from this.  R u able 2 do a video chat?  I find it easier 2 talk than 2 text ad I am really in excruciating pain.  I know we aren't supposed 2 do this, but when we r this sick we really do need the contact with others that r going through what we are. 

[[Ma...]]

Yeah it's horrific for sure and I'm 10 months off benzos and it's horrific and I'm still on Zoloft for now too so I feel your pain! No I don't have video chat except through iPhone but I'm on Facebook so I could look you up there

[[Ma...]]

Yes, the physical is very hard, but the emotional is, for me, the most scary. I try to tell myself that the intrusive thoughts are NOT me, and that they are a symptom of withdrawal. I too understand the fear that I'm going to break down or lose control, but this is also a message from the benzo brain. Just naming the thoughts "benzo brain" helps neutralize them a bit. Someone said that our "window selves" are our true selves. The other part is just our healing benzo brain. I hope things get better for you very soon.

[[er...]]

I have mentioned this to you before, and I will try again.  EVERY post you write mentions your suspicions of Zoloft.  Why don't you listen to YOUR body, and get the hell off of Zoloft???

 

No one knows your body like you do, so I don't know why you'd listen to them giving you advice about staying on something that is so obviously concerning you.

 

In my experience, I wasn't able to really begin to fully heal while I was still taking risperdal - it was very toxic stuff that I DID NOT NEED.  That drug was making and keeping me sick. I did a rapid taper of it, in a little over a month, (yes, that hurt), but then I was free and not dependent on putting that particular poison in my system every day. 

 

My doctor had wanted me to double my dose.  If I had continued to blindly follow his ill conceived directions, I have no doubt that I would have been dead within 5 miserable years.  I'm doing much better now, that I began trusting my gut.

 

Best of luck, I know this is very difficult stuff to deal with..

[[Ma...]]

Well as far as the Zoloft I've been told to try and come off it now would de stabilize me more and make this so much worse! I've already been on it for 10 months so to come off it now when the Benzo symptoms are probably just now at their peak I don't know if I could handle it

[[Ma...]]

I'm in big big trouble here! I don't understand any of this and doctors and the hospital I was detoxed at and putting me back on another drug when the Xanex is what was making me sick has made things so much worse and I'm sure from all of my symptoms my Benzo WD symptoms are peaking and getting worse and I don't think the Zoloft is helping things at all and I'm so confused as to what to do now?

 

If I keep taking it and I'm already at tolerance or it's aggravating the Benzo WD I need to get off it but with my symptoms already being so severe I don't know if I can handle it so I don't know what to do?

 

The severe pain pressure burning numbness and physical symptoms in my brain are unbearable and the worst they have ever been I literally can not breath or relax and no distraction is working at all! The extreme anxiety nausea light headed and dizzy just feel like I'm completely crawling out of my own skin just pure hell physically!

 

The emotional symptoms are horrible and very scary! Severe confusion DP/DR brain fog cognitive issues horrific evil intrusive thoughts major depression can't control my mind at all and it's in such a dark place and it's really getting worse by the day!

 

So I don't know what percentage of how much is the Benzo WD compared to whatever the Zoloft is doing to me and I don't understand I know coming off the Zoloft would literally kill me right now but I think it's making me worse for taking it so I don't really know what to do?

 

If I go back to the hospital they are just gonna look at me like I'm crazy and try and put me on more drugs which is not what I want!

 

These drugs have destroyed my brain and my central nervous system and I don't know if I'm gonna survive this or not?

[[so...]]

Maize,

 

You are in the acute phase of WD and it is the roughest part.  Things will get better.  Unfortunately, you have been put on several different drugs to cope with the symptoms of coming off benzos.  ADs are very toxic and, if you look around the forum, or visit survivingantidepressants.org, you will find the withdrawal symptoms to be similar.  You can get a lot of help from that site to taper off your Zoloft.  I think 100mg is a pretty hefty dose, and the mods over there can advise you on tapering.

 

Good luck and hang in there.

 

Sofa

[[er...]]

Well as far as the Zoloft I've been told to try and come off it now would de stabilize me more and make this so much worse! I've already been on it for 10 months so to come off it now when the Benzo symptoms are probably just now at their peak I don't know if I could handle it

 

So, you're just going to continue to blindly listen (out of fear) to someone who "says it's going to be worse" if you get off Zoloft?  What do they "know" for sure?  Here, I will tell you - nothing.  They have no idea how you are feeling or will feel.. how could they, from reading a book?  Or from being indoctrinated by a professor influenced by big pharma?

 

I've heard the same bull from doctors - I believe they're more worried about losing a monthly customer than in truly doing what is best for a person.

 

Well, you're a big boy, do what you gotta do, and I really do hope you start to get better soon!

[[Ma...]]

Well it's not just doctors it's others who have lives through all this too telling me to try and come off the Zoloft while I'm Benzo WD might not be the best idea in the world and I'm scared to taper it and I'm scared to keep taking it so I don't know what to do? After 10 months I'm sure their is gonna be big time WD tonit and adding that on top of being in the worst of the Benzo Hell I don't know how I will survive so I'm not trying to be stubborn o just really don't know what to do here

[[Ma...]]

 

I'm sorry to keep bothering everyone here and I'm and very grateful for any help and support that I get but this is really getting worse and I feel like no matter what I do it's the wrong choice and I feel like I'm on the verge of having no choice but to go back to the hospital I'm so sick and I really don't want to do that because I know they will just make it worse! I really don't know what to do about the Zoloft and someone even suggested today doing a micro taper slowly off it but I'm scared to move or do anything it's so bad both the physical and emotional symptoms are getting worse and the worst they have ever been and I know my situation is now complicated by the fact that I'm obviously still in severe acute Benzo WD and symptoms are just now peaking at 10 months off and whatever the Zoloft is adding to this so I really don't know what to do hold on the Zoloft or taper I'm so scared it's so bad!

[[Vi...]]

Hi Maize, somsorry to see how much you suffering. I know how you feel bc I have the same symptoms. Burning brain and scalp is my worst by far. I'm still on remeron 1.6 mg and I'm holding on here for a wile bc my body can't take any more cut. Severe anxiety I have and depression crying a lot 15 months out.

But I have to say the intensity is less and and I can smile here and there now. Most days I feel back to acute but few days I had 50% better day. We have to keep pushing forward. Our brain will cool down one day and anxiety will get better.

Hot baths helping me a lot, and walk.

How many months are you out from benzo? Did you stoped last year May? Or you stoped 2.5 months ago?

Vica

[[Ma...]]

No I'm still on the Zoloft and have been since I was detoxed from Xanex in the hospital 10 months ago and this is the worst I have felt since it's so bad!

[[Ma...]]

This is my dilemma and I just posted this on surviving AD Website concerning my current symptoms and the Zoloft I'm still on and I'm really feeling hopeless and like my suffering has just begun and the doctors have made it so much worse and I may be in this state of not worse for a very long time!

 

Ok well I just read altostata information on why to do a slow taper at 10% and all the information talks about not damaging the CNS but for me that's complicated because mine has already been severely damaged especially by Xanex and I'm already in severe WD form Benzos and probably just now hitting the worst of it and have much more to go before my brain and CNS even recovers from that so that's why I am really scared here and don't know what to do?

 

Im assuming your choice would be to try and make a slight reduction in the Zoloft and it's even been recommended to micro taper which when I read altostrata information suggests a 10% decrease every 4 weeks to decrease the chance of damage to your CNS and WD symptoms but that's the things and the horrible situation I'm in! I'm already dealing with more than I can handle and or ever imagined I would be going through with the Benzo WD it is simply hell on earth and after 10 months just now getting the worst of it both emotionally and physically and I already feel extremely unstable and between the severe physical pain in my head the high levels of anxiety and the severe emotional symptoms including SU/HM ideation and severe DP/DR I don't know if I can handle it but then again I know it could be adding to this and making me worse so I don't know what to do and it's not because I'm trying to be stubborn or trying to annoy anyone it really is that bad and these symptoms are already so severe I feel like I'm hanging on by a thread and completely losing my mind and dying!

 

And yes I did also try some breathing exercises today and I'm going to the ER tonight just to get checked out and I'm gonna schedule a appointment with my PCP to see if I can get in with a neurologist I mean I'm trying here and I've been holding on holding on the Zoloft constantly distracting even changed my diet the last week as much as I can but it just keeps getting worse so I'm confused and this is horrible!

 

Altostarta even talked about the risk of tapering and what speed should be based on the individual situation and with my brain and CNS already in complete agony and trying to survive the Benzo nightmare I'm wandering if it's even safe to taper the Zoloft but then again is it safe to keep taking it?

 

Thats where im at here just confused and really needing some sound advice and help with this cause like you said the doctors are clueless and they are partly to blame with me being in this situation to begin with and I don't want to go back to the hospital they are the idiots that CT me and put me on Zoloft to begin with so I'm at a loss?

 

 

[[Gr...]]

Hi there.

 

I'm 2 years off benzo and other psych drugs. I'm not going to rush to get off the sertraline. I too read all the info on surviving anti-depressants and watched Don Killans videos about tapering off medications. What I took from it is that it is better to let the CNS heal or 'reset' from one withdrawal.

I am in a situation where I can do that. Others may not be. My benzo journey has been horrific and I am not ready to taper yet. I am trusting I will know when the time is right.

[[be...]]

I have a former BB friend who took Zoloft after tapering a small dose of Ativan. Then he got anxious. Then he tapered off it very slowly and no more anxiety for him! He has been back to normal for quite a spell. Just sayin'.

[[Ch...]]

For what it's worth, here's something you may want to have a look at as far as the 'crawling in your skin' feeling:

 

A possible side effect that patients should be made aware of is 'Akathisia' which is defined as "inner tension, restlessness, and the inability to stay still". This side effect may develop soon after the first dose of the medication and stops when Zoloft is stopped or the dose is lowered.

Zoloft - Treatment4Addiction.com

www.treatment4addiction.com/drugs/antidepressants/zoloft/

 

 

I'm not trying to persuade you in any direction or decision, that's up to you.  I just wanted you to see this information. 

 

Take care, Maize, I'm so sorry you're still suffering so much.  Sometimes even a minute at a time feels like an eternity.

[[Ma...]]

Ok so is that a side of effect possibly of the Zoloft too? It's hard cause some of these symptoms can be caused by both Benzo WD and AD like Zoloft so how do you know what to do or if hats causing what?

 

Also I've noticed ansevee uptick in a deep rooted depression and horrific evil intrusive thoughts literally feel like I'm losing my mind and it's hard cause some people going through Benzo WD have the same type symptoms and aren't on any other med so what do I do?

[[Ma...]]

Ok I'm sorry to bother everyone and before I start this is long but my story and current situation the best I can describe!

 

These symptoms are so severe both the extreme head pressure and physical symptoms in my brain and the severe emotional symptoms are so unbearable and just getting worse everyday!

 

I'm sorry to keep bothering you but I'm at a loss and I don't want to go back to the hospital because I know they will make it worse but it's getting so bad i don't know if I'm gonna survive this and can't keep going like this much longer!

 

The head pressure burning numbness tightness and extreme pain in my head is so unbearable I can't stand up or function in anyway all I can do is lay in my bed holding on for dear life! Extreme nausea light headed and dizzy just physically sick and can't move restlessness agitated crawling out of my own skin it's so bad and the last few weeks has been the worst wave of symptoms since before going into the hospital last October!

 

The emotional symptoms are really starting to scare me as week severe DP/DR confusion I don't even recognize my own face in the mirror just this deep dark depression And these horrific evil intrusive thoughts all the time now including SU/HM ideation it's horrible and just getting worse! I can't breath I'm just so physically and emotionally sick it's really scaring me how bad this is getting I feel like I'm dying and on the verge of going completely psychotic or losing my mind at any moment or just falling over dead this is horrible and the last 2-3 weeks these symptoms have just been climbing and rising to the point I don't know how much more I can endure it's so bad!

 

I know none of the has been done right at all! After 6 months on Xanex I know I was in severe tolerance WD and had probably kindled from previous but brief use before and then I was CT off at the hospital from .75mg and then to make matters worse they put me on another evil drug Zoloft that after 10 months has put me in a really desperate position here and so much worse than before!

 

I know it is common to have massive huge horrific waves between 6-12 months off and most people don't start to see any relief or improvement till somewhere between 12-18 months out and so it seems my symptoms started to hit me right at the beginning of month 7 and is just now peaking out in month 9-10 and I'm telling you this is the worst it's ever been both physically and emotionally so so bad even worse than before I went into the hospital and I feel like I'm right back where I was a year ago just worse because now I have another drug to deal with Zoloft which I've never really even been able to tell what it was even doing to me or for me because the Benzo symptoms have always been consistent and severe!

 

As far as the Zoloft I'm really at a loss and don't know what to do about this? My symptoms are quite severe and I don't know how much is massive Benzo Wave and what the Zoloft is contributing to all this and it's really scaring me! I know there is a good chance especially with my history with previous AD use that I could have built up tolerance to it already and it may not be helping anymore of it ever did and I know and have read enough about Zoloft to know it's not so great coming off of either even if it may not be as brutal as Benzo WD it isn't pleasant for sure and I've already been on it for 10 months and have been holding at around 87.5mg since month 4 when I switched over to the liquid to help taper but these symptoms have been so bad I've been scared to change anything else and I know the longer you take these drugs and the higher the dose the harder it is to get off of plus I have the cumulative effect of being poly drugged and previous use and now the nightmare of adding AD WD to Benzo WD and I really don't know what to do?

 

These crazy doctors have put me in a really bad position and just made me worse and didn't handle any of my care nor educated on any of this and I've had to learn the hard way about these drugs and I don't know what to do now?

 

So I'm in a massive Benzo wave worst I've ever experienced after 10 months off and I have this other drug setting here not knowing what it's doing to me or adding to my condition so I don't know what to do or where to go with any of this and both the physical and emotional symptoms are getting worse everyday!

 

If you follow the Ashton Manuel she recommends waiting a full year off Benzos before trying to taper any other drugs but first mine is not a normal situation because I was in severe tolerance WD and had kindled before the hospital then I was CT and put on another drug after that so my situation doesn't follow the rules here so what do I do?

[[Ma...]]

Hey Maize for what it's worth. Zoloft gave me a feeling of constant inner restlessness when I took it several months ago, while on benzos. The stuff is poison. I've been trying to persuade you to taper it for so long but you are too afraid to. Hope things get better for you, me and everyone else suffering. Hang in there and start tapering the Zoloft. You may feel much better once you get to 25mg and below. Just take the taper slow. I know things can always get worse but I honestly think they will improve as you lower this drug, simply because it is poisonous.

[Guest [vi...]]

hi maize,

 

i agree with challis and mamoot. at this stage, you must consider the possibility that you are having a reaction to zoloft. to be in benzo acute after 10 months of CT and after a few months of use is not impossible but it's also not seen frequently.

 

you did have a reaction earlier to prozac and then to lexapro. 6 weeks of discomfort upon starting lexapro does not sound like a start up. it sounds like a reaction -- unless you were titrating up. were you titrating up in those 6 weeks?