Hi again, (finally) I think the last I had written was about trying to get off those miserable lexapro pills. I was doing pretty well, having literally cut them way down to miniscule bits, and waiting til the withdrawl symtoms stabilized enough to go visit our son Dan in NY. I promise I will post pictures. After the big wedding we then attended in Grenada MS, and all the dust had kinda settled, I cut the suckly rotten pills back some more...I'm determined to get off them. The feeling of being shocked with an electric current aka 'brain zapping' came back, along with being mentally out of focus and having a loud clanging in my ears constantly. It's disconcerting to be walking across the room, suddenly feel almost dizzy and having the sensation of electrodes zapping the neurons in the core of the brain. Good thing I had Googled about these being withdrawl symptoms, or I'd prolly want to get right back on them, the way others have and still do, just to alleviate the symptoms, planning on dealing with it all at some later point. That way I'd be falling right back into the same trap the pharmecutical companies want want all their customers to be in, but I'll be danged if I'll be slave to some large pharmecutical giant corporation.
Meanwhile, life goes on and in some cases not. Our best buddy Melissa's son, David, was killed in an head-on car crash. Now she and I are in a 'club' that no mother ever wants to join. It has bonded us even closer, but what a terrible thing to have happened. As it happens, tho, both of our youngest son's are named Joseph.
...So, at any rate, I'm off to the drugstore for another refill of this insidious prescription because all I know to do for now, is to keep a stiff upper lip, breaking them into smaller and smaller pieces, and keep clanging on.
(Meanwhile, as soon as I get back from said drugstore, I will be posting another blog today about the carpenters who worked on the house yesterday...I didn't forget.)
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Here is a partial answer to your problem with the Lexapro. The two "T's". Turkey and tuna fish. Turkey has tryptophan, which is rich in serotonin, one of the main neurotransmitters your brain needs in order to function correctly without the Lexapro. The tuna is rich in Omega 3's and dopamine, another brain neurotransmitter. Another neurotransmitter is acetylcholine, which is present again in proteins such as eggs, fish, nuts, and some veggies such as broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower. When you feel these 'zapping' sensations coming on, bear down as if you were having a bowel movement for one minute, then let up, and have someone massage your scalp and the back of your neck. See if that helps. Good luck!
WOW! Thank you SO much for the input. I'll do it! At this point, I'd do most anything to get rid of this stuff. As it so happens, I love salads every day...Cappy calls me a 'salad head'; I'll just put those things in my salad. I'll let you know how it goes...pretty well, I'd guess, for you seem very knowledgeable on the subject. If you don't mind me being nosy, how did you happen to come by this info? I've Googled, but haven't found this...I've found lots of sites which want to sell their brand of vitamins, or whatever.
I just can't tell you how grateful I am to you. I don't think a lot of the people around me can really appreciate how badly it makes one feel, with the brain acting up this way. Heck, I just learned a friend of mine SOMEHOW got off Lexapro in a month "easy"...GAW! "Lucky goyl" is all I can say.
As for the bearing down...can do <:"> but the only 'someone's' around are da dawgs....heeeeere SparkyBear...heeeeeere MarkyBear...heeeeeeere Raleigh-Raleigh...see Mommie's scalp? Yes, Scalp...and neck...are your paws clean?
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