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chonny 
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Posted: 01 March 2012 at 8:40pm |
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hi ladies, is there anyone out here that has had experience with loxamine / paroxatine and weaning off it? how long did it take? my partner and i want to start trying for a baby but have been advised by my GP that i need to wean off my pills first & it qould have to happen slowly. Help please? advice please?
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Posted: 02 March 2012 at 6:25pm |
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I know it is really important to wean gradually or you can have unpleasant side effects. I'd work closely with your GP on it.
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Posted: 02 March 2012 at 8:26pm |
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chonny - I am weaning off them now but interesting my GP said I didn't need to come off them to have another baby. Anyway I started coming off them half way through Jan went down to 3/4 then down to half a tablet (which is what I am on now). Her advice was to drop a 1/4 of a tablet a month but to monitor how I am during this a if it seems to be getting to much to go back to the previous dose and stay there for a while. So all going to plan then I should be off them by mid April. No real side-effects so far.
But as crafty said I would follow what your GP says/recommends as things might be different for you.
Hope all goes well for you in weaning and for your third baby
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chonny
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Posted: 03 March 2012 at 9:57am |
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Aroha, which ones are you on? i think its because of how strong mine are that i shouldnt get pregnant on them. well thats what mental health have told my gp anyways
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Posted: 03 March 2012 at 7:35pm |
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Chonny - the same as you but maybe we are taking different doses....
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Posted: 03 March 2012 at 8:44pm |
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I was taking loxamine and I tried to wean off them but I had some extreme side effects like head buzzing and nausea, tiredness etc I couldn't cope with it, so my doctor put me on to citalopram instead and I have been on that a month about to start trying to wean off it.
The advice I have been given is to make sure you do it really slowly. I was on one tablet a day, so I was told to start taking it every 2nd day then do that for around 2 weeks. Then drop it to a tablet twice a week, do that for a while, then once a week, then drop it all together. But to do it very gradually. If you do it slowly you are less likely to have the major side effects. But loxamine can be very hard to come off so if you have trouble ask your doctor if there's something you can switch to that's easier than loxamine, like citalopram. Good luck, its not much fun to be honest
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Posted: 05 March 2012 at 9:37pm |
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What about switching to another type? I was on fluoxetine/prozac up until 35 weeks pregnant. There are types of anti-depressants that you can take while pregnant. For me the anxiety was high enough while taking them that I wanted to stay on.
I ended coming off mine accidentally around 35 weeks, I kept forgetting to take them, then ran out. Not a way I would recommend, but I had no side-effects luckily.
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Posted: 05 March 2012 at 11:41pm |
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yea ive done that Jade with the loxamine, got dizzy spells, tiredness, nausea, shakes heart palputations etc, very quickly went back on them. also tearyness.
I am on a very high dose 40mg a day. I used to be on fluox but not strong enough. oh well, its off to the gp sometime this week to start the slow decrease.
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Posted: 06 March 2012 at 1:55pm |
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If you're on a high dose maybe just change to another that is safer for pregnancy/breastfeeding, its better than suffering unnecessarily. The loxamine withdrawls are so horrible.
I did find I was able to move between doses of loxamine reasonably easily like I went from one table to two, then up to three at one point, then back down from 3 as I felt a bit funny, back to two and then down to one, over a period of a few months. It was only when I dropped below one that I felt the horrible side effects
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Posted: 07 March 2012 at 10:12am |
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apparently im not supposed to take more than two, but i think my gp is going to want me to drop down by 1/4 a tab at a time.
tbh im thinking i wanna wait a lil bit before we get preggy. just got a kitten so hoping that may help DP a bit. And me of course
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Posted: 07 March 2012 at 8:27pm |
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I would go slowly,1/4 tab at a time, and only reduce the dose every second day (like the reduced dose, then full dose, then reduced dose... for a week, then try reducing the full dose days by a quarter as well ). If that makes sense.
I get really yuck when I cut down mine too, which I am trying to do. Same symptoms as others mentioned.
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Weaning off AntiD’s
