Anyone here gotten off an ssri and gone back on?

[[Fo...]]

I'm 3 years off a ct. 

[[mo...]]

I cold turkeyed Cymbalta after 6 years of use. I had some pretty nasty physical side effects, but handled everything well mentally for about 6 months.

However at the 6 month mark, my mental health declined significantly and I went back on the Cymbalta. It is the right medication for me. I stayed on it for another 8 years. At the end of last year, I had to go off it again for unrelated medical purposes. Tapered over two months and did SO much better, no major physical side effects.

I do plan on going back on it in the future, after having children.

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Hi, I was on SSRI for 15 years in a row and tapered successfully and was off for a year but i had to start it again due to huge stressing life problems but a year after it started to harm me deeply, huge reactions similar to serotonin syndrome, i halved my dose and resolved the problem for another year but it started to harm me again so i had to CT, i had no other choice. The WD symptoms were big but could live with them for 3 months, then they got bigger and at 6 months it became unbearable. I tried to reinstate 4 times since then but i was getting worse and worse reactions everytime i tried so i just gave up (btw that's what led me to daily benzos for months and dependency).

So now i am tapering benzos but after a little more than a year, i think SSRI WD is done, i might not be 100% healed but most symptoms resolved and i feel normal about it, as normal as you can feel when you are in benzos WD so i couldn't say if there is any SSRI symptoms around yet.

[[Cr...]]

Yes. Twice. I’m one of those patients that thinks they’re good and wants to get off and gets off and things go south but I think it’s because I was tapering too fast. Next time I’m going to taper extremely slow. Maybe 5% or less a month. 

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[[id...]]

I was on and off remeron a few times. 

It's like a toxic relationship: you think it's good for you so you get back together only to realize it hurts you.

[[Be...]]

I was on citalopram for 14 years and came off last year.  I didn’t do a proper taper ( doctors advice 🙄) but was ok.  Then in May this year tried to reinstate it at same dose and ended up in ER with suspected serotonin syndrome.  This is a common theme and Melissa Boultier talks about it on her yt channel.  I have slowly gone onto Mirtazapine in the past two weeks.  Mainly to help my sleep.  When I’m off Valium, I’ll probably slow taper that off as well.