I been on 40mg of celexa and 1 mg a day of klonopin for almost a year now due to panic attacks. Which helped me a great deal. I decided to wean myself off of celexa and I did it very gradually and the correct way according to my doctor. I stopped taking it almost a week ago. I been going through absolute torture! I never experienced something like this before. Feelings such as crying,nausea,a numbness sensation in my hands,lips and a rush in my head,dizzy and very very moody nasty to the point people can't stand me! I also started birth control pills as well this month so my body doesn't know what it wants to do with itself. I just want these symptoms to stop and go away please! I went to my doctor yesterday he took blood did an ekg because I told him i have palpitations and he said I don't and my heart it perfectly normal! I don't know why I did this to myself I should have just stayed on the medication. I just figured I would try not to be on so much medication. My doctor said I should have tried to come off klonopin before celexa, but now that's too late so I am taking 2 pills of klonopin a day instead of 1 while I have these withdrawal symptoms. I am hoping they pass soon!!!! I need to concentrate at my job and I can't feeling this way. This morning I took 1 1/2 mg of klonopin and I feel a lil better. I been trying to excercise more to relieve this. Do you know how long it will be until I get better? I'm giving it a few more days and then i'm just going to start taking a low dosage of celexa again. I'm sure my blood work will hopefully come back ok also as they are checking my thyroid and I had it checked before and thank God everything was fine. Please God help me get through this...I don't wish this upon anyone...As I read this board it seems everyone has the same exact withdrawal symptoms as I do.
Thanks for listening...