Akathesia Sux Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 I got off Geodon a while back and I asked my pdoc how to titrate. He said "just quit it cold turkey." I said "What about withdrawals?" He just laughed and said "There is no such thing as withdrawal from a major tranqualizer, it just doesn't happen." I have seen other posts on this board where people said their pdoc told them the same thing - no withdrawal from AAP's. When I went off Geodon it was rough for several days but nothing that was out of control. I definitely felt it, but I don't know if it qualifies as a "withdrawal." So my question is, are the pdocs thinking of something different when they speak of withdrawals? In other words, are they and we consumers not on the same page when we speak of the term "withdrawal?" Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpmaster Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Thats BS. I am on seroquel and take 1 tab in the morning, 2 at lunch and 1 in the evening. If I miss any of them I start to get withdrawal. Symptoms include heavy sweating, agitation, psychosis, panic. Once I went for 24 hrs without my seroquel and I had a psychotic episode. I dont know about geodon specifically, but my p-doc has said that any discontinuation of seroquel or abilify should be a slow taper (unless it is causing unwanted problems). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonflavor Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 I had awful withdrawal from Zyprexa. Here is what happened to me: http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.ph...ic=5821&hl= However, I went from 5mg to 2.5mg for six days, then off. Way too fast for me. On this link http://www.medhelp.org/forums/MentalHealth...ages/32909.html See the post: Ouida 09/12/2005 C23 Sad that a GP knows about this and many pdocs don't. I also had a hard time coming down from Risperdal. I was on Zyprexa a second time this last summer. I came off of it VERY slowly (probably slower than anybody in the history of the world) and it wasn't as difficult. When going off of drugs I have to make my own schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loon-A-TiK Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 yes, very real. you'll hear a lot of people here describing what it is like to miss a dose of geodon, because that drug has such a short half-life that even a couple of hours is like hell for them. i've personally always been taken slowly off of one while building the other, so i have no experience with withdrawl or suddenly being yanked off of a drug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akathesia Sux Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 Why do so many pdocs think there are no withdrawals from these drugs? I know I felt them when I came off Geodon, but I had nowhere nearly as hard a time as many people here have reported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Well. You can only titrate up on somthng, not down. But other than that, yes you can have all kinds of nasty rebound symptoms. Geodon was one of the worst for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbird Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 I didn't get any physical withdrawal symptoms from quitting abilify cold turkey but 2 weeks later I was floridly psychotic and losing it big time. I had to withdraw very slowly from Haloperidol, my symptoms again weren't physical but I do feel more psychotic-y now I'm off it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 I am withdrawing from Risperdal by 0.5mgs at a time and I can't sleep anymore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Ah, so that explains why I go slightly nutso every time I try to quit Zyprexa then. Teeth grinding within a day, sleep shot to shit within 2, rage building up, all sorts of crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stable not balanced Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Akathesia Sux and Velvet Elvis - what symptoms did you have when withdrawing off of Geodon? i am in that process now, sort of. will be more this weekend. thank you! kathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMF Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Well. You can only titrate up on somthng, not down. But other than that, yes you can have all kinds of nasty rebound symptoms. Geodon was one of the worst for me. How can you not titrate down? DD has done this several times (or at least we thought that was what they were doing) in order to try to prevent some of the withdrawal problems that can occur and to allow for slow upward titration of another med. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 By definition you can only titrate up. IIRC it was similar to SSRI withdrawls brain-zaps, electric current running through my teeth, tinnitus, rebound anxiety from hell. After the first day pdoc to called in an increased klon. rx to tide me over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resonance Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Hey all, Because the titrate/taper thing has come up several times I moved some of the posts here to a thread of their own in the New Users board so that we can just refer people to it: http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.ph...=14872&st=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Elvis Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Heh. It hasn't so much come up several times as I feel compelled to mention it every time someone misuses the term because it drives me crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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