anyone have sensitive body since quitting xanax or antidepressants

[tlcha]

I was on xanax for 1.5 years and antidepressants on and off during that time. I am now off all drugs for 5 weeks. My body is so sensitive to all meds now. Like over the counter aspirin or ibuprofen or even taking kids vitamins. Does anyone else have problems since they came off their medicines? I use to be able to take vitamins, minerals over the counter stuff but now my body reacts weird like my pulse will raise up and my blood pressure will rise and I just won't feel good or I will feel weird after taking stuff. Has anyone out there had this happen or any other symtoms like feeling like your not quite grounded like your walking around in a cloud. Do these medicines have that much affect when  person comes off ?

[lyerhc]

I also have had trouble with sensitivity after getting off the Lexapro, I wish I never would have started the Lexapro it seems like I have more of a anxiety problem then a depression problem if I can control the anxiety i.e. anxiety attacks then I don't have problems with depression.  After getting off the Lexapro my body was sensitive to
everything even itself I had headaches, aches pain and brain freezes that I never had before. its been about 7 months since I have been off the Lexapro and things are finally getting back to normal the sensitiveity isn't anywhere what it was before,so hang in there and good luck.

[RARA35]

I also wanted to add, that when I first stopped taking the lexapro I had horrible side effects like; vertigo, brain zaps, headaches, insomnia, head burning sensations. The vertigo went away along with most of the symptoms after about 6 weeks. I first noticed sensitivity to alcohol shortly after that. Just one beer would make my head burn. It gradually has gotten better. I think because I went off and on more meds during the past year, it has put my body into shock. Some days I am fine taking vitamins ETC. some days it makes me sick. I hope I can someday be totally healed.

[RARA35]

I also have a drug sensitivity after quitting my antidepressants. I was on lexapro for three years and accidentally took another seratonic drug with it. I got seratonin syndrome and this happened one more time with nyquil. I started getting sick from the lexapro several months later and quit cold turkey. It was very hard with the horrible side effects. I now have sensitivity to anything that raises seratonin (st. johns wort,5htp,coffee) sometimes vitamins and pain killers will bother me also and alcohol is a no no. I quit the lexapro over a year ago but have tried other antidepressants since, the last being prozac for two days last July. I have batttled anxiety since being off meds. I wonder if my brain will go back to normal. I hear it takes a year or more. I wonder what other people's experiences are with this stuff. I think it alters your brain chemisty and is poison. I wish I had never started.