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well, it didnt go too well actually. I've done it cold turkey with Effexor before, but with Cipramil it was totally different. The head rushes didnt stop, i got stomach cramps and diarreah, and a few days ago was admitted to hospital suicidal. Oh well, i'm not superwoman. So im back on a low...

Now that is excellent advice, it seems so obvious yet i actually hadnt thought of it. Thank you, upstream, i am going to try this. Its so hard to concentrate on work anyway with this surging in my brain. Maybe it will kick start a healthier brain cycle. I seem to be stuck in the wrong gear!

Has there been a thread about how people get off meds well? I've tried many methods and recently went cold turkey as im sick of meds and want to DIY. I've come off the max dose of Cipramil and have been having brain "rushes" which im taking flaxseed oil for and it seems to take the edge off. i...

update; havent been on for a while I've subscribed to this thread but havent visited the forum for a while now. I was on Effexor a year or two ago and it was great until i got a bad case of the hives. Since then it was Cipramil as there are no other SNRI's available in Australia, max dose...

I'm sure that i read somewhere that the majority of the epidemic of cases of "alien abduction" victims were child sexual abuse victims living in denial. Which actually makes them suffering PTSD full-blown. When you look at the stats on CSA it is not surprising, and it is somehow easier to tell...

drugs i think it really depends upon the person and their unique situation as to whether drugs can help or not. I found the Zoloft/Prozac kind aggravated my dissociation, however Effexor worked well and wasnt too sedating (hate older sedating antidepressants as well) until i doubled the dose...

CAROL Stingel tidied her hair with trembling hands as the jury filed back into court. She closed her eyes as the judge's associate rose to ask the foreman the verdicts. Had Geoff Clark raped her in the Warrnambool Botanical Gardens in March 1971? The foreman's voice was so low that only those...

hi vcc, The thing is with PTSD, what so many people dont understand, is that is has a "ripple effect", it dosnt just "happen" to one person but to everyone who has contact with that person in some way. It is a social problem, not just an individual one. I loved the metaphor of the tree, the...

sheesh just one of those would be enough!......i admire the fact that you're still coherent! big hugz from downunder, hope the pressure lets up soon cat

Aftercare of soldiers essential It seems absolutely incredible to me that the armed forces dont have some kind of automatic screening and ongoing monitoring process of people who come back from war. Combat PTSD must be recognised as one of the job hazards and occupational health and safety...

i have a special soft lavender "blanky" that works like a soft toy for me, like for Claire, it really does work. Also suffer from erratic sleep. i find for me that i need a snack before bedtime, a warm drink of tea (herbal would be best i guess but i usually have normal), and i have a large...

ptsd and glucose intolerance Definitely a connection; i have it too and have been told that i have to eat something small, a healthy snack, every 3 hours or i will start getting tense. I've worked out that some of my worst panic attacks came after not eating for 5 or more hours. (And yet, i can...

panic attacks i dont know what mine look like but i sure know what they feel like; for me a panic attack is like suddenly reality gets really fast and confusing, like flipping through a million tv channels really fast, i cant breath, i hyperventilate, my eyes set down on things and fly away...

thanks Thanks elvis, i needed to hear that. It helped me pull myself together and go and see the doc. She actually seems very good and is willing to see me several times a week - wow! and thanks Zilly, that is the most beautiful, and true, profound poem...... I'm going to keep on persevering...

Today i go see another psychiatrist. I really do - not want to go. I've written before about my generally negative, on-off relationships with therapists. How many times do i have to tell my sad and sorry tale of woe? How can i sit there and with a wooden face explain that i feel suicidal...

Hi, Just wondering if anyone else on the forum has experience with doing self-defence type courses or martial arts and if that has helped with the PTSD and "feeling safe"? I have been advised to do one for years but when i tried it years ago i found that it was too triggering at the time and...

living with ptsd Hey there batgirl, PTSD in its full force is totally debilitating; we develop ways of sidestepping it, like acrobats. When i was in denial, i packed it all up into a little box inside and got heaps done, got a life as they say. Then it would hit and down i'd crash. To...

OMG - the tidal wave coming, dragging a small child with you....thats MY dream! And no-one believes you when you say its coming, and you have to run to higher ground, up stairways and over roofs, but as it comes it drags cars, rubble, bodies, everything before it, it weighs a ton and crushes...

I'm new to this forum, and as i've been going through older posts and i can see this topic of memory and dreams has been dealt with and posted on quite extensively already - sorry 'bout that! Some really good info in them, too, about memory and the hippocampus, etc. There is alot here to get...

Something that interests me is how PTSD not only does stuff to your memory as in you remember stuff you've repressed and you can also have current memory gaps for no reason when dissociating, but that DREAMS are so extroadinarily vivid and that we DO remember dreams in such detail. I've talked...

i think this is a difficult issue that is different for everyone. I've been dealing with my PTSD for the last 9 years and have seen just about every kind of therapist there is. Some were totally unhelpful, some didnt understand PTSD, some were too heavily meds-based. Sometimes the "fault" wasnt...

I'm currently going the natural route, after a severe allergic reaction to anti anxiety meds. So far I'm getting acupuncture and taking; fish oils, evening primrose oil, flaxseed oil (for the hives), extra B-supplement as well as a multi-vitamin, thyroxin (not really natural but for my...

thank you for that list bec, it is very helpful. I think i might just print that one up......and even show it to my boys. Its the kind of basic commonsense that is uncommon nowadays with the rash of relativism around. (ya know, the well, everything is relative sort of thinking that makes you...

Another related topic that i find disturbing are the video games that kids play, (even my sons). I cannot watch them, they are too disturbing (but then i cannot watch horror movies anymore either). There is just too much positive rewarding of violence and killing. And that is in the PG ones (eg...

i think its a complex issue; some of these other people MAY get PTSD later, for example, it dosnt always show up immediately. Also we all have different biochemistry; eg some research suggests that those who have glucose intolerance, migraines, and/or thyroid problems are less able to ride...