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.
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."
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