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Kitkat's Medicine Withdrawal Page

This is a new page, so I haven't got much detail into it yet.  However, I will put my existing Cipramil withdrawal here, and as of today (12/02/06), I will start withdrawing from my Seroquel.

Seroquel Withdrawal
Cipramil Withdrawal

I am REALLY sick of being on medication, and I KNOW that if I continue to stay on antipsychotics, I will never regain my normal weight, and I WILL get diabetes!  I don't want any of this, so I have decided to withdraw from my Seroquel.  I am going to withdrawal at the rate of 1/5 less at a period of each month, and for the last month, only taking 1/10th of the medication.  At the end of the withdrawal, I might cut the last 30mg into smaller cuts, but I will see what happens.  I am currently on 300mg of Seroquel per day (which I take at night).  For me, this means I will go by the following schedule:

Currently taking 300mg of Seroquel at night

  • 12/02/06 - Will take 240mg for a period of one month
  • 12/03/06 - Will take 180mg for the next month
  • 12/04/06 - 120mg for the next month
  • 12/05/06 - 60mg
  • 12/06/06 - 30mg
  • 12/07/06 - FREEDOM!  No more medicine!

I do sincerely hope that this schedule will go to plan, and I hope that anybody else wanting to go off this disasterous drug will support me!

**News - I have stopped my fight to become an antipsychiary hero, and so I am going to stay on Seroquel.  I did something totally stupid and regrettable (as a result of withdrawing from Seroquel) (awww alright, I drove 4hrs south of here, found a big fence to park my car behind, and proceeded to try and starve myself, in the hope that I would get found by policemen and helicopters after being declared a missing person, and thus be readmitted to the psych ward... however, this stupid stunt of mine only lasted for 30hrs before I gave in... I REALLY did this by the way eek), and so I will have to stay on Seroquel for the rest of my life.  I started withdrawing on Feb 12, and ended on May 27th this year.  I only lasted three months in trying to withdraw, and unfortunately it didn't work for me.  I was starting to get psychotic symptoms back, and now I am just going to take my 300mg of Seroquel every night now.  I have learnt the terribly hard way not to mess around with my medication, and so I have to finally realise that my mind DOES work too fast, and that I do need this medicine in order to LIVE!

Seroquel withdrawal symptoms:

  • Feb 17 - Nothing different has happened yet - I'm cutting the tablet between the "S" and the "E" on the pill.  On the tablet is the 8 letter word SEROQUEL, and of course there are two gaps on either side of the word - making a total of 10 divisions on the tablet, so this has become an AWFULLY handy way of measuring where to cut the medicine tablet!
  • Feb 22 - I've been feeling a tiny, tiny bit sick just before I have gone to bed the past two nights, but I'm not sure if it's related to the withdrawal or not.  Otherwise, I am still unaffected - yayayayy!
  • Mar 2 - In the afternoon, I started feeling awfully weird!  The little finger on my right hand was suddenly shaking when I moved my wrist, and then after that I just felt very ill.  I didn't spew up or anything, but I broke out in a sweat, and all I can describe it as was that I was feeling very weird and weak.  I ended up ringing the ambulance, and then in there I just bawled my eyes out.  They said I was very emotional and that I should get counselling.  I just think it was a combination of being dehydrated, possible medicine effects and stress.
  • Mar 21 - I stepped down my medicine again to 180mg, a few days after schedule.  I am still feeling great besides that day in early March.
  • Apr 21 - I am still on 180mg, and I will start the next stage of withdrawal once I come back from Brisbane. Nothin bad has happened yet, which is fantastic. Also, I just got a 6 month gym membership, so losing weight and doing more exercise will speed up my metabolism, and will help my health overall.
  • May 11 - I have started the next stage of withdrawal to 120mg today, and still nothing bad has happened (since that one incident I had).  Things are going great with my medicine!!
  • May 28 - Things were going great, but I am afraid that I can't keep withdrawing anymore. Something pretty bad happened to me this week, and as a result, I am going to have to stay on my original dose of 300mg.

Antidepressant (Cipramil) withdrawal timetable:

    • July 27 - stopped taking my 20mg tablet of Citalopram.  I feel absolutely fine!
    • Aug 2 - I have this weird butterfly stomach type feeling in my body.  It is mostly around my gut.  I haven't noticed any psychological effects as yet.
    • Aug 3 - The butterfly feeling is nearly gone now, but my legs are sweating for some odd reason - just under my knees mainly.
    • Aug 4 - (midnight) I was having a heap of trouble trying to sleep because my heart rate was constantly faster than usual (at least 120bpm), and I thought that my head, hands and feet were swelling up.
    • Aug 5 - Was trying to sleep but it felt like the top slice of my brain felt all weird and fuzzy.  Also my legs were sweating, but nowhere else.
    • Aug 9 - I have had some trouble sleeping because of the leg sweating and being either hot or cold.
    • Aug 19 - Sorry that I haven't updated this in a while, but I now feel that the citalopram has fully gone.  I am now more anxious than usual, and I am way happier than usual - a few people have suggested that I have just started the hypomania stage of bipolar disorder.  I have no idea why they have suggested that I might have bipolar