Nausea??

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While still on Zopiclone I lost 35 lbs. The GI symptoms made it  almost impossible to eat.

Since taper finished I have been able to gain back 12 lbs. (I don't want the rest back lol)

 

throughout all of this I have never felt like I'm going to throw up.

This is new today. I feel like I have the flu along with the depression etc.

Is this common? Maybe I really have the flu although I normally never get sick.

 

thanks for any insight.

Carol

 

[[He...]]

Maybe you have the flu?

 

I have had flu symptoms, without flu several times during tapers, also freaky nausea that comes and goes.

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You know I wondered that to, if I were to get the flu, how will I really know. maybe it's more obvious, I don't know. I have had flu-like symptoms all throughout this withdrawal process, but I can seem to tell that it's not the flu.

 

Maybe someone else can chime in that has had more obvious signs of the actual flu when they had go it at the same time as benzo withdrawals.

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Ya, somehow I don't think it is the flu.

I also feel a resurgence of a anxiety and depression the last few days.

Also new is a feeling of pressure on my chest. Like it's really hard to get air.

After 4 months off I thought that I'd experienced all of the symptoms that I was going to have.

It seems like new ones are coming on as well as the old ones returning

I'm so discouraged today.  I know there is nothing to do but go on because what choice is there?

Thanks

Carol

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I feel like throwing up all the time. Sometimes it feels like the flu and sometimes it feels like anxiety (like bad butterflies in the stomach).

 

I often have feelings that can only be described as guilt - just the physical part of the feeling, there's no context or thoughts of doing anything wrong. I feel like I just ran over the neighbors dog, or accidentally left something on the stove and burned the house down, or ruined my life in a thousand ways. The cause isn't there but the resulting emotion is awful. I feel like there's cold water in my veins, my skin is tingling and my stomach feels like it's trying to come up my throat and out my mouth.

 

Deep breaths can help, meditation can help, walking can help, distraction like the Internet or going outside, or playing with the dogs can help. Sometimes it feels very physical, including what feels like a fever, dizzyness, increased saliva, tinnitus, pressure in the head and stomach... other times it feels like an anxiety attack or an eerie feeling.

 

It comes and goes but I will say that it has gotten less severe and occurs less frequently. It used to really interfere with any activities and now it's just an occasional wave.

 

Over time I noticed that it got worse about an hour after I ate a large meal. I really started paying attention and ate much smaller meals and eliminated sugar and chips. I think it really helped. I don't think it was necessarily the food itself. I think it was my blood sugar.

 

Hang in there. It gets better.