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How many of you got off SSRI cold turkey

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How many of you got off SSRI cold turkey

Poll ended at Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:18 am

cold turkey
6
75%
fast tapper
2
25%
slow tapper
0
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Total votes : 8

Re: Did you go cold turkey and got PSSD afterward?

Unread postby Crushed » Thu Aug 03, 2017 5:35 am

Cold Turkey off of Citalopram. When I started feeling awful I tried re-instating and tapering but then went cold turkey a second time. After about a month one day I noticed my genitals were numb and also had some strange uncomfortable feeling in my glans. At the same time I had night sweats, hot flashes and sore nipples. Citalopram was my second SSRI. I had taken Zoloft for about six months many years prior and had no problem going cold turkey off of that.
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Re: Did you go cold turkey and got PSSD afterward?

Unread postby Glitch » Thu Aug 03, 2017 6:57 am

The cold turkey/PSSD idea hasn't been very consistent. Some people did, some people didn't. I didn't cold turkey off of it. I tapered with a standard protocol that my doctor gave me. Like two weeks or something. It was actually really smooth and I didn't have any withdrawal symptoms but the erectile dysfunction remained.
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Re: Did you go cold turkey and got PSSD afterward?

Unread postby Timm Thaler » Thu Aug 03, 2017 8:15 am

I was on Fluoxetine and cold turkeyed, nobody told me about tapering, I didn't know the concept at all and there was no way anyway to cut the capsules in smaller doses.
However, Fluoxetine is the SSRI with the longest half-life so I understand that even if you stop from one second to the other, it is kind of tapering off by itsself, due to the long half-life. (I heard it takes up to five weeks to arrive at the therapeutical dose, when starting.)
Following this logic, nobody can cold turkey with Fluoxetin, so if this was the crucial factor for developing PSSD, nobody should get it from Fluoxetin... However some do.
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Re: Did you go cold turkey and got PSSD afterward?

Unread postby Twentyoneguns » Thu Aug 03, 2017 1:18 pm

Just gaining insight into where my PSSD started. After posting on Surviving Antidepressants, the following has been suggested:

I went cold turkey on Fluoxetine 40mg, stupidly harsh taper...2 weeks or so in June 2016, had no apparent WD symptoms.

Started Sertraline 50mg in December 2016, PSSD started almost immediately...stopped after 3 doses...is this classed as cold turkey?

SA suggested I was suffering WD from Fluoxetine which caused extreme sensitivity to any new drugs...

Does this sound correct to you??
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Re: Did you go cold turkey and got PSSD afterward?

Unread postby IHateProzac » Fri Aug 04, 2017 9:37 am

Timm Thaler wrote:I was on Fluoxetine and cold turkeyed, nobody told me about tapering, I didn't know the concept at all and there was no way anyway to cut the capsules in smaller doses.
However, Fluoxetine is the SSRI with the longest half-life so I understand that even if you stop from one second to the other, it is kind of tapering off by itsself, due to the long half-life. (I heard it takes up to five weeks to arrive at the therapeutical dose, when starting.)
Following this logic, nobody can cold turkey with Fluoxetin, so if this was the crucial factor for developing PSSD, nobody should get it from Fluoxetin... However some do.


My Psych actually hinted at tapering Fluoxetine (Prozac). I stopped cold turkey & got PSSD. However, there were some signs of PSSD while I was still on it.
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Re: Did you go cold turkey and got PSSD afterward?

Unread postby Ghost » Fri Aug 04, 2017 9:49 am

I've posted this about "withdrawal" in the past, and I know it's mentioned a lot here but I think that we should start phasing it out as a term for PSSD. Sorry for distracting from the thread :)

"(June 2017) The rest of the internet talks about "withdrawal", and I've given my opinion on that many places. It's medically incorrect, and even more misleading."

"(Sept 2015) Many people claim that this is "withdrawal", which it's not. Withdrawal, by definition, is caused by coming off of something, which conflicts with evidence from people like myself that PSSD had a fast onset, and began before I stopped taking the drug. Withdrawal is also something that decreases in severity the farther away from the incident that you go. It's due to coming off of a substance that the body has become used to."
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Re: Did you go cold turkey and got PSSD afterward?

Unread postby IHateProzac » Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:26 am

Ghost wrote:I've posted this about "withdrawal" in the past, and I know it's mentioned a lot here but I think that we should start phasing it out as a term for PSSD. Sorry for distracting from the thread :)

"(June 2017) The rest of the internet talks about "withdrawal", and I've given my opinion on that many places. It's medically incorrect, and even more misleading."

"(Sept 2015) Many people claim that this is "withdrawal", which it's not. Withdrawal, by definition, is caused by coming off of something, which conflicts with evidence from people like myself that PSSD had a fast onset, and began before I stopped taking the drug. Withdrawal is also something that decreases in severity the farther away from the incident that you go. It's due to coming off of a substance that the body has become used to."


If you mean to say that PSSD is not the result of 'withdrawal' then I agree with you.

Indeed, for some PSSD came before they stopped - whether by tapering or otherwise. I got penile anesthesia while I first went on an SSRI. Began losing the effects of Viagra while still on Prozac, & completely lost PDE5i's effects & libido once I stopped cold turkey.
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Re: How many of you got off SSRI cold turkey

Unread postby Ghost » Fri Aug 04, 2017 9:24 pm

Topics Merged 8/5/17

PLEASE search in the search bar to see if it already exists. It saves me a lot of time.
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Re: How many of you got off SSRI cold turkey

Unread postby GIXXER » Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:32 am

Ghost is it possible to sticky popular threads so they alway stay at the top? Personally I think the forum could use a revamp or cleaning.
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Re: How many of you got off SSRI cold turkey

Unread postby Ghost » Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:38 pm

It is possible. I'd have to determine which ones are the most popular.

Summer is winding down, but I've spent a good amount of time trying to clean up here this summer. What I think is ideal is consolidating repeat threads so that there is less clutter. I also am planning an overhaul of the forum theme at some point to modernize it, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.

If anyone has any suggestions for other ways to format the forum, I'm interested in hearing them as well.
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