Withdrawal of SSRI's

Dear doctor and fellow forum users,

Since January 2009 I have come completely off various SSRI's to deal with my OCD and depression. Since 2005 I have been taking the following medications: Fluoxetine, Seroquel, Benzapine, Zoloft & Geoden among others. As stated since January 2009 I have come off the SSRI's and have experienced some extremely horrid and disgusting withdrawal affects as well as side affects during the period I took them. To this day I still experience extreme body pains all over, hunger, agitation, irritability, worse OCD symptoms, constant thoughts and talking in my head and weird feelings in my hand palms and in the bottom of my feet when I sweat or a specific type of soap etc touches it!! I came off of the SSRI's in the first place due to worse and similar symptoms I experience now. It has been 6 months and counting and their is NO CHANGE!

My questions to you are:

1 Does the withdrawal phase TAKE THIS LONG????
2 What can i do if these are withdrawal symptoms; to ease the symptoms or end it completely????
3 If it isnt Withdrawal symptoms WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME AND WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT [I AM GOING INSANE!!]


PLZ PLZ HELP ME!!!!!!!

[rafe44]

I know the feeling somewhat. I am on cymbalta and had been for about 7 yrs when i quit cold turkey. I had the symptoms you had ,maybe not to your degree. But was very emotional and irrable and brain frizzes. I mad it 21 days and decied screw this and start taking again. Next time i may taper very slowly. But becareful. Why did you quit? And maybe you could just take one anti depressant? Good Luck

[DWhyte]

I quit because it wasnt doing anything at all, nothing it claimed and was supposed to do. Plus i experience bad side effects and i was failing school due to it, right now I have messed up my first 3 yrs of University due to the meds and the inability of my doctor to handle my ocd and depression correctly. He never once mentioned and attempted CBT or ERP with me i just recently learned of these and research show they are effective. I believe if he did this long time ago I would be wayyyyy better than I am today.........