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Anyone have experience with how to combat dizziness when coming off of an SSRI? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by dingus@lemmy.world to c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world
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Hi. I stopped my SSRI at the direction of my psych provider who is switching me to an entirely different class of med.

Was on 10 mg escitalopram for around 6 months. Reduced to 5 mg for 3-4 weeks and felt physically ok (but not mentally but I'm not sure if that was related). I then took some every other day because I was afraid to totally stop with the directions I was given.

But I stopped completely approx 6 days ago as instructed. Felt totally fine at first. But I started getting a bit dizzy around 3 days in. I am still dizzy now and I feel really bad. :((( It is exacerbated by too much head or eye movement. I didn't even realize that was from the med discontinuation at first until I did some googling at wtf was wrong with me.

I see my provider again tomorrow and am gonna ask her for some help.

But I'd also to know if anything personally helped you all and how long this takes to go away. Because I am going to be struggling at work and it's not like I can just take several weeks off of work. And my family was coming to stay over next weekend.

I feel a lot better if I am able to keep my head and eyes totally still but it's not feasible for me to just lay motionless for an unknown period of days/weeks.

Will anything like Dramamine help? I've never taken Dramamine before but since it helps with motion sickness you'd think it might be similar??

Thanks all. :(

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[–] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

EDIT Update to my update lol: So the dizziness started coming back again a bit this evening. I think that what triggers it is too much movement combined with being a bit tired/dehydrated/lower blood sugar. So I have to be kind of a sloth and eat a lot. Uhh well ok I guess lol hopefully I don't gain too much weight. :pp

Hey all! Not sure if you wanted an update or not lol.

So I was in the absolute height of it on Sunday evening onto Monday morning. It was fucking terrible and made me feel so bad/disoriented. But it has been pretty rapidly going away since and I feel like I'm nearly back to normal now! So it took a while to peak, but then after that it seemed to drop off relatively quickly.

So in total this lasted approx 5 days, with the most uncomfortable part lasting around 1-1.5 days. I know everyone's experience is different, but I'm just leaving it here if anyone wants to know what sort of thing they can possibly expect. YMMV obviously!

I hope I can stay dizzy free now lol.