I've got a mixed case here.
I want to go off of antidepressants (citralopam, 36-hour half-life) - I stopped four days ago because of STS signs after the sunday dose. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin_syndrome
) .. and I mean.. really, honest signs, running heartbeat, hyperactive brain and hyperactive bowel activity, etc. Made me really freaked out, especially with trying to deal with a weekend insomnia! I had just gotten my zinc, kelp and iron supplements, the very first ones, and took them to try and help myself. It's been a very good thing, having a 'hypnotic' lactose-type sedative from my doctor, but the antidepressant and all.. Oh, man, it screwed me up! >.<
I'm an insulin-dependant diabetic with 11
Amalgams and hypothyroid. Not for too much longer (with the amalgams), I'm taking
Bentonite treatment gently, trying to use spinach and parsley, maple syrup, molasses.. hell, I even have a juicer still from 2004 or so when I first joined here and started reading.
Right now my digestive system is shivering and making yawning-tremors inside. I wonder what that is?
Still, I need to know exactly what support to give myself. I still don't know if it's safe to take the antidepressants again after using 60mg of zinc over the weekend and the kelp and all. I've got a bit of skin insensitivity issues because of a year on selenium (the selenium and methylmercury interaction, it gets confused for proper sulfides, I think) before I figured that out and eliminated multivitamins, and some brain fog right now after stupidity with NAC, but I feel.. actally really good right now. I've been using the sedative very low-dose to control the STS issues.
But I'm.. turning circles, loosing track of what I am doing in the midst of activity, having light fever at the frontal lobes just at the front of the head, and managing my insulin rates very carefully. I've already had to drop my night dosages several times for falling requirements.
I just need guidance. My supplements drawer is very complete, and so is my fridge, lots of
Celery root, spinach, a good drawerfull of organic root veggies in my fridge, and a large bunch of homegrown apples out in the cold shed.
I see my doctor in four days and he's going to give me holy hellwhatsfor if I say I stopped the antidepressants cold turkey. Even right after the synthroid I'm getting parathyroid swelling´, just a little. I haven't dropped the synthroid, though, that's more elemental.
I can't go backwards, the question is just, what now? Cold turkey no antidepressants? Go on the half-pill and start slowly quartering it? The liver metabolizes the antidepressant... And right now I've been getting gentle kidney and spleen-side pangs. I've been using olive oil heavily. Advice, please.