@MichaelSF -- Shawshank Redemption? (If my memory serves me correctly)
Absolutely-my favorite movie of all time!
@MichaelSF -- Shawshank Redemption? (If my memory serves me correctly)
Now I know what movie I'll watch during my next HBOT treatment!Absolutely-my favorite movie of all time!
Yes intermittent fasting is awesome. I already started losing weight I have accumulated from antidepressants and damn did I gain a lot of weight from them.Hi @Artazanasss -- Thanks for your positive report, and congratulations on all your improvements. I too have been doing intermittent fasting similar to what you're doing, and wish I would have discovered this many years ago. The benefits feel almost innumerable, from feeling lighter, better digestion, better sleep, better mood, etc. -- I think if more people would try this, they would be much less likely to consider any kind of brain damaging drugs.
I tried Amitriptyline (in liquid form) for sleep as well a few times, 5 drops the night. But I don't know, I didn't function the next day till lunch time. I was also kind of aggressive that day. The sleep came in kind of late but maybe I have taken them not early enough.Amitriptyline, 20mg at night.
Taking for pain and also depression and anxiety issues, probably need to go to 25mg for the anxiety and depression.
Could be placebo, but my tinnitus is quieter since being on it.
It slows down nerve signals and that is why it works for pain.
Maybe it can work for also tinnitus.
Haven't experienced adverse effects (tinnitus related).
This is a question I've asked myself many times. It's a tough decision to make. If I eventually do it I probably won't take an SSRI. I'll post a link to a study that was done where I work. It's about SSRIs and tinnitus. If I ever do take something I'll push for nortriptyline.Should I use an AD? I am wary or afraid of it making my tinnitus worse.
But, if I don't take it, then what? What should I tell my doctor?
It's Sertraline.
Hi friend, hope you are keeping well.This is a question I've asked myself many times. It's a tough decision to make. If I eventually do it I probably won't take an SSRI. I'll post a link to a study that was done where I work. It's about SSRIs and tinnitus. If I ever do take something I'll push for nortriptyline.
https://news.ohsu.edu/2017/08/22/study-suggests-serotonin-may-worsen-tinnitus
Nortriptyline also causes tinnitus, as all serotonin enhancing drugs. Your best bet would be to avoid all drugs altogether.This is a question I've asked myself many times. It's a tough decision to make. If I eventually do it I probably won't take an SSRI. I'll post a link to a study that was done where I work. It's about SSRIs and tinnitus. If I ever do take something I'll push for nortriptyline.
https://news.ohsu.edu/2017/08/22/study-suggests-serotonin-may-worsen-tinnitus
If you decided to avoid them, how do you explain it to a ****** doctor? Physicians interpret declining prescriptions as being stubborn, refusing help and doubting the degree of your condition (the first two are definite and the last one is my guess at what they'll do).Nortriptyline also causes tinnitus, as all serotonin enhancing drugs. Your best bet would be to avoid all drugs altogether.
Read this
https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/life-screwed-by-nortriptyline-not-doing-well.22024/
If you decided to avoid them, how do you explain it to a ****** doctor? Physicians interpret declining prescriptions as being stubborn, refusing help and doubting the degree of your condition (the first two are definite and the last one is my guess at what they'll do).
If your tinnitus is severe and you make it clear how much you are suffering but decline drugs, how do you deal with the doctor's reaction? The average physician won't understand even if you try explaining it. They don't understand your argument that "it might make my tinnitus get worse."
I already am minus the obeying part.I had to encounter a physician like that in the past, i refused and went off home. You have your choice, nobody is forcing any poison they might offer you down your throat. If you blindly do what they say, then you probably live a very miserable obeying life.
I'am sorry for your pain. That being said each SSRI's different and how they affect people varies. I know you can take some sort of a test that will tell you based on your genes which antidepressant might be helpful. I think even for that you may need to get a order filled from your doctor.Feel my mental health has really got bad over the last 12 months because my left ear got worse from noise yet again. Such a shame because I kept it at the same level for 5 years prior to that. Forgot my earplugs one evening and didn't think it could get worse! Rookie mistake.
Luckily tinnitus isn't an issue, I have habituated to it and still remain to be habituated. However, I am finding it really hard to disconnect and detach from how overwhelming things with being at almost severe hearing loss in my left and am especially obsessing with sensations in my left ear.
Tried Escitalopram (Lexapro) before and hated it, Sertraline (Zoloft) for 4 months didn't do anything. Might consider another SSRI or maybe a different class of drugs altogether. Not really depressed but the anxiety is really having its effect on me.
I'am sorry for your pain. That being said each SSRI's different and how they affect people varies. I know you can take some sort of a test that will tell you based on your genes which antidepressant might be helpful. I think even for that you may need to get a order filled from your doctor.
You can try Paxil, Cymbalta, Effexor or some of the TCA's. And sometimes it really is finding the right one that works for you, so it really is trial and error. Have you tried benzodiazepines? Obviously benzos carry their own risks (addiction, withdrawal etc) however during bouts of anxiety and panic it has helped people on here.
Low dosages antipsychotics are prescribed for anxiety but the side effects scare me.
There are natural supplements but they don't compare to the pharmaceutical stuff. You are more brave than I am-I wish I could take them. I guess if push came to shove I would, but right now I am trying to hang on by a pinky finger....
Let us know what you decide to do I'm here if you want to chat
Took generic version of Lexapro for 3 days, unfortunately I get a rare side effect (RLS).Are you on any medication? I'll most likely go back to try another one. Lexapro and Zoloft didn't do it for me.
Took generic version of Lexapro for 3 days, unfortunately I get a rare side effect (RLS).
Maybe I didn't give it enough time and/or need to try something different. Did you get any side effects?
A test based on your genes? Elaborate.I'am sorry for your pain. That being said each SSRI's different and how they affect people varies. I know you can take some sort of a test that will tell you based on your genes which antidepressant might be helpful. I think even for that you may need to get a order filled from your doctor.
You can try Paxil, Cymbalta, Effexor or some of the TCA's. And sometimes it really is finding the right one that works for you, so it really is trial and error. Have you tried benzodiazepines? Obviously benzos carry their own risks (addiction, withdrawal etc) however during bouts of anxiety and panic it has helped people on here.
Low dosages antipsychotics are prescribed for anxiety but the side effects scare me.
There are natural supplements but they don't compare to the pharmaceutical stuff. You are more brave than I am-I wish I could take them. I guess if push came to shove I would, but right now I am trying to hang on by a pinky finger....
Let us know what you decide to do I'm here if you want to chat
Honestly, I would try everything else before deciding to go the AD route. I rue the day I ever went on them. Doctors know little about the side effects. And, as you say, ADs can sometimes make tinnitus worse.After four years managing to cope with my tinnitus, not feeling any major anxiety or depression, I've decided that the time to give them a go has come. Despite my tinnitus being pretty severe I can have 8 hours of solid sleep every night.
After a worsening which started two months ago I wake up with an horrible feeling of anxiety in my stomach and disturbing suicidal thoughts.
I'm scared of antidepressants or anxiety meds making my tinnitus worse or giving me hyperacusis as I've read it has happened to some people.
Any advice or tips for this before I go to the doctor asking for help?
This is pretty much my situaton. However, I feel I need to get off of them now as I am near the point where withdrawal symptoms will happen anyway due to the poop out effect and I would then need to up the dose, which in itself may make my tinnitus worse.They're not magic pills and the root of your anxiety will not be tackled by a small dosage of SSRI - I've been on them for years and can't get off them now as I fear it will make my tinnitus worse... who knows if they contributed to it.
They have a small anti anxiety component and it was a quick fix by my GP years ago. Therapy was what helped at the time.
I'm not suggesting therapy for your t but that anxiety will subside in time as you get used to this new level of tinnitus and the SSRI won't do much. You may still be left feeling down but the flight or fight will subside in time.
Well done! How are you doing now?So I'm tapering off antidepressants successfully. I tampered off Risperidone slowly from 2 tablets to half a tablet and I replaced Escitalopram with 5-HTP (lower dose, I break the 400 mg tablet in half) and adaptogens (Ashwagandha, Rosiolla Rosea). I am also taking Melatonin at night to help me sleep because insomnia is a common side effect from quitting Risperidone and I can honestly say I never felt better. My anxiety is a lot lower. My aggression attacks are gone. My nausea is better. Even my mood is better. I lost a little weight by combining my lower antidepressant dosage with intermittent fasting 18/6. I am a little drowsy from 5-HTP sometimes so I think I might replace it with something else in the future, but that's not a big deal considering I'm starting to feel like my old self. My emotions are still not fully recovered and the antipsychotic Risperidone did cause some damage like memory loss, akathisia, dystonia, and impotence, but I hope it will get better over time.
I also did well by cutting out toxic people (my sister) from my life that did nothing, but drain my emotions, humiliate me and insult me and now I'm only left with real family like my mother.
So yeah I am doing quite good and I encourage everyone to go the natural route instead of dangerous antipsychotics and antidepressants that cause extensive damage and long-lasting side effects.
I've been on Ashwagandha for two weeks now and have experienced a very slight improvement in my morning anxiety. I also stopped taking a vitamin B12 supplement (Becozyme) which is known to cause anxiety in some cases, so don't know what has helped me with the issue.Well done! How are you doing now?
What's a typical day's eating for you? I'm thinking of intermittent fasting (also @Lane)
Are you still taking the 5-HTP? Did you introduce it only once you were off the ADs? And what do the Ashwagandha and Rosiolla Rosea do for you?
I think i will have to include it at some point.I've been on Ashwagandha for two weeks now and have experienced a very slight improvement in my morning anxiety. I also stopped taking a vitamin B12 supplement (Becozyme) which is known to cause anxiety in some cases, so don't know what has helped me with the issue.
I was going through severe anxiety right when waking up and is no longer happening at the levels it was happening a couple of weeks before. The rest of the day is pure shit, though.