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How to get off Cipralex?
My psychiatrist's appointment is in 2 weeks and I want to start doing it sooner than that. I've been on 20 mg for almost 6 months and before than that on 10 mg for about 2 months. What steps should I take to stop using Cipralex safely?
As your psychiatrist has said that you can half the dosage, then do that and you will be fine.
If you have a tablet that is 20mg then halving the tablet will bring it down to 10mg which will be fine. If you run out of the 20mg tablets, ask for a prescription of the 10mg tablets.
The psychiatrist obviously feels that you are on an even keel with your depression and it is now the right time for you to half the dosage. This will be you fine. You may be on the 10mg for a few months and then be reduced to 5mg or told to stop taking them or told to keep on the 10mg dosage so that you do not drop down to a low depressive stage again.
Depression can come and go. So you may be fine for a long time and when the winter months come along or you start to experience not very nice situations you may start to spiral down again.
The thing is that you can start to spiral down slowly without realising that you are slipping into depression again.
Take things easy and follow the advice of your psychiatrist.
Best wishes.
If you have a tablet that is 20mg then halving the tablet will bring it down to 10mg which will be fine. If you run out of the 20mg tablets, ask for a prescription of the 10mg tablets.
The psychiatrist obviously feels that you are on an even keel with your depression and it is now the right time for you to half the dosage. This will be you fine. You may be on the 10mg for a few months and then be reduced to 5mg or told to stop taking them or told to keep on the 10mg dosage so that you do not drop down to a low depressive stage again.
Depression can come and go. So you may be fine for a long time and when the winter months come along or you start to experience not very nice situations you may start to spiral down again.
The thing is that you can start to spiral down slowly without realising that you are slipping into depression again.
Take things easy and follow the advice of your psychiatrist.
Best wishes.
I talked to my psychiatrist and he told me to just start by taking half of it?
Isn't that fast? isn't it bad if I go from 20 mg to 10 mg after about 7 months?
What do you think?
Isn't that fast? isn't it bad if I go from 20 mg to 10 mg after about 7 months?
What do you think?
It would be advisable to be guided by the advice of your psychiatrist with regard to slowly reducing the dose of your antidepressant. Some antidepressants are addictive and have to be decreased slowly. I do not know whether the medication you are on is addictive or not.
If the medication is helping, what you do not want is to come off it too soon and spiral down to feeling low again and be back to square one.
As you will already know that going on antidepressants takes a while before you feel any benefit.
Best wishes.
If the medication is helping, what you do not want is to come off it too soon and spiral down to feeling low again and be back to square one.
As you will already know that going on antidepressants takes a while before you feel any benefit.
Best wishes.
Just wait until you meet with your doctor, so you can be properly tapered. The answer isn't to take it into your own hands. That can make things far worse. It's 2 weeks, that's not that long.
Why are you coming off it anyway?
Why are you coming off it anyway?
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