Just catching up after a busy few days.
My daughter turned 9 on Friday, so of course, we had like 5 days of parties/celebrations!!
Tomorrow will be the 2 week mark from my start of my liquid
lexapro taper. I had been on a 10mg tablet (well, breaking a 20mg in half - not an exact science!), and first tried to drop to 9mg. I was fine for about 5 days, then had a particularly bad day. Mainly just so exhausted, couldn't wake up, felt like I wasn't in my body, etc. The next few days weren't so bad.
But the last 3 days, the same. Oh, after that one bad day last week, I bumped up to 9.5mg of lex. I've been holding steady on that since, even though I feel like ********************.
My jaw is tight again, my vision is blurry, I never did get brain zaps (thank goodness), my blood sugar drops super low, I get really shaky, etc.
I'm not sure what to do. At some point, I need to move off the 10mg. I know Julia said you need to adjust first to the liquid. I'm not sure how the liquid could be different from the tablet. I'm measuring it accurately.
One thought I had recently, is that last fall, I may have been experiencing withdrawal for months, even while being on lex. Because for the first month, I took 15mg, then dropped to 10mg, which I was on for 3 months. So during that 3 months on the lex, and feeling terrible w/drawal stuff, I could have very well been going through w/drawal, even on 10mg!!!!
Geeze. If I feel this ********************py, why draw it out? Maybe I should just drop to 7.5mg for a while, and bite the bullet and just get it over faster?
Yeah, Erin, I've read a lot about cortisol levels. In addition to having Hashimotos Hypothyroidism, I've been dx years ago with pretty bad adrenal insufficiency. Nothing like adding weak adrenals into them mix!
I also 'forget' to eat! Though I've noticed being on the lex, makes me ravenously hungry sometimes! I try to ignore it, thinking if I eat that much, I'll be HUGE! But it does make sense about needing small meals to keep my body from thinking it's starving....I also think age makes a difference. I just turned 46. And, I don't really exercise. Duh. My assistant just gave me two Pilates and Yoga DVDs she swears by. I'll have to check them out.
Well, time to get in the shower, then maybe eat something!
Any thoughts on what's going on would be most appreciated...
~Mary
