william12 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Hi everybody My name is Will and i suffer with severe anxiety and depression for years. i was stable for many years and then i divorced my first wife and things got out of hand. i started feeling extremely bad and low and i jumped head first into a new relationship and re-married an other woman and i have been married now for 5 years and we have a beautiful 3 year old daughter. last few months i was given fluanxol(flupenthixol or flupentixol in the uk) and i felt better then i started having visual side effects and extreme drowziness when the medication was only increased to 2 mg/day, i was also taking citalopram 40mg . i stopped the flupenthixol after i had a reaction where i became very restless and then stopped the citalopram 4 days later and started taking Clomipramine and zyprexa. then hell broke loose. the worst restlessness a man can imagine and with it burning in neck that goes down my chest and hands and i became seriously suicidal . nothing worked : tried risperidone and it made no difference and made me even worse because of the drowziness. the Psychiatrist restarted Fluanxol at only 0.5 mg and the burning subsided a bit then came back couple of weaks later so i was told to take 1 mg and this made a big difference and i had big relief but still anxious and depressed but not horribly so. last week (2 months on)i started having a funny feeling like i am half drunk and i became very uncoordinated and clumsy , it's a bad feeling. i decided to stop the fluanxol but very gradually : every three weeks i go down in dose by 0.25 mg and i started yesterday and the burning came back this morning but not as bad as before. shall i carry on ? because this fluanxol seems to be the culprit in all this suffering? any advice would be greatly appreciated ps: i am also taking sertraline now 150 (it was increased yesterday by the GP) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william12 Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 Hi everybody My name is Will and i suffer with severe anxiety and depression for years. i was stable for many years and then i divorced my first wife and things got out of hand. i started feeling extremely bad and low and i jumped head first into a new relationship and re-married an other woman and i have been married now for 5 years and we have a beautiful 3 year old daughter. last few months i was given fluanxol(flupenthixol or flupentixol in the uk) and i felt better then i started having visual side effects and extreme drowziness when the medication was only increased to 2 mg/day, i was also taking citalopram 40mg . i stopped the flupenthixol after i had a reaction where i became very restless and then stopped the citalopram 4 days later and started taking Clomipramine and zyprexa. then hell broke loose. the worst restlessness a man can imagine and with it burning in neck that goes down my chest and hands and i became seriously suicidal . nothing worked : tried risperidone and it made no difference and made me even worse because of the drowziness. the Psychiatrist restarted Fluanxol at only 0.5 mg and the burning subsided a bit then came back couple of weaks later so i was told to take 1 mg and this made a big difference and i had big relief but still anxious and depressed but not horribly so. last week (2 months on)i started having a funny feeling like i am half drunk and i became very uncoordinated and clumsy , it's a bad feeling. i decided to stop the fluanxol but very gradually : every three weeks i go down in dose by 0.25 mg and i started yesterday and the burning came back this morning but not as bad as before. shall i carry on ? because this fluanxol seems to be the culprit in all this suffering? any advice would be greatly appreciated ps: i am also taking sertraline now 150 (it was increased yesterday by the GP) No one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LunaRufina Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Do NOT bump your topic. People have lives and it may be a few hours to a couple of days before someone responds. I'm curious as to why you are having both a psychiatrist and a GP mess with your meds though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william12 Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 Do NOT bump your topic. People have lives and it may be a few hours to a couple of days before someone responds. I'm curious as to why you are having both a psychiatrist and a GP mess with your meds though. people have lives ? so io don't have one ? if this how you talk to people with mental illnesses here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LunaRufina Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 You obviously have no interest in discussing your question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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