Withdrawal Daze and Nights

 Well I did not come back to describe my first attempt to get off Lexapro, I had some withdrawal issues. After my last taper down from 20mg to 10 mg 37 days later (yesterday) I had some very irritating and somewhat painful symptoms. I have this really bad headache and it lasted for about 5 days. I am not sure if it is gone or about to make a comeback :( But it is not throbbing and was always there and was quite painful. It is not a migraine, I have had those before. It is like a tension headache minus the throbbing  with the pain at high steady tensity.

Also I had flu like symptoms, body aches and all of a sudden I was really hot like a fever and then chills like I cannot believe. I just laid down praying on and off most of the night. I had no anxiety or depression maybe because I have been down this road before. Sometimes I just get mad all over again, I can not believe I was prescribed this because of grief and now I am living in lexapro hell.

Since with this last taper I have had more withdrawal problems I will probably  will be on this dose for longer than 6 weeks. I am almost at 6 weeks and am getting worse, hopefully these symptoms will die down quickly.



Today I have been exhausted and actually took a 4 hour nap. When I woke up the headache was subsided so quietly I am celebrating that pain not being here. I had a lot of fatigue today and minimal muscle pain. yesterday the pain was sharper and more intense.

I have decided to really be dedicatd to this blog, only that if anything I come across or anything I endure help someone else it will be worth it many many times over.