I've been weaning myself off my antidepressant for several weeks now. I've been going much slower than my doctor said, just to be on the safe side, and even that wasn't slow enough. I've been looking through the medication's literature and since I took my last pill, last week, I've been having every withdrawal symptom they warn about, plus a few more.
All my joints hurt. I keep wondering if this is what arthritis is like. Random shooting pains, a serious reluctance to get up from sitting down because it hurts so much to bend or put weight on anything. I'm also wildly dizzy; my head is swimming constantly. The only time the room isn't spinning around me is when I'm not moving any part of my upper body. I'm not really sleeping, either. I was up at 3 a.m. the other night and wide awake still. And let's not even get into how much of a witch I'm being. I may yet have some member of my family brain me in utter frustration!
Don't get me wrong; I'm not complaining here, just explaining why you might not hear from me for several more days. I don't really feel (well, good isn't exactly the right word) "not-ill" unless I'm lying down in a dark room, with no-one else around. It's all kind of annoying, but kind of funny too, in a really weird way.
Anyway, you'll hear from me when I'm feeling better. Which will hopefully not be too much in the future.
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