Peata
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As much as I loved the mood stabilizing effects from Cypro, I decided to go off it. I'd been taking tiny amounts of it for a month, then about a month ago I started increasing. I wanted to see if I could reduce diarrhea with it and also get allergy symptom relief. I was up to 8 - 11 mg. per day, it varied. I'd take the biggest dose at night. My diarrhea did not stop. My allergies still needed help. So one of the main reason I was taking it - allergies, did not feel relieved unless I took more Cypro. The mood effects were very good though, but I started worrying about the side effect of weight gain. Up to that point, it hadn't happened. Then about halfway through last week, I started feeling that insulin resistant kind of hunger, where you are voracious, as if your body isn't registering the food and continually demands more and more. I started needing to eat nearly all my day's calories by noon. I ate all day. I ended up having to eat another meal just before bed. My weight gain started up again. Scaring me.
I had read that weight gain and increased appetite could be a side effect -sometimes it's used for that purpose in people who have no appetite or need to put on weight. I was hoping I could get allergy and other relief by taking less than the amount that would put weight on me. As I said in other posts, I was really getting good mental effects from Cypro. But I'd decided if I started gaining, I would stop taking it. So it happened, and so I did.
I had my last 1 mg. Tues a.m. But yesterday I started getting withdrawal symptoms similar to when I'd go off SSRIs. At first I thought the room was shaking because of some road workers nearby. Then I realized it was my brain, twerking in my skull. I had some nausea, malaise... just "those" symptoms of withdrawal. Anyone who's gone off SSRIs will understand. They were moderate in intensity, and I did have to go take 1/2 mg. Cypro to make it stop just so I could function and focus on other things. I was pretty much OK the rest of the day.
I've been OK so far today, just very mild symptoms that go quick, I hardly notice them. I think I'm off it now -I doubt I have a need to take a bit of Cypro to stop symptoms like I did yesterday.
For now I will just suffer through with allergies.
I had read that weight gain and increased appetite could be a side effect -sometimes it's used for that purpose in people who have no appetite or need to put on weight. I was hoping I could get allergy and other relief by taking less than the amount that would put weight on me. As I said in other posts, I was really getting good mental effects from Cypro. But I'd decided if I started gaining, I would stop taking it. So it happened, and so I did.
I had my last 1 mg. Tues a.m. But yesterday I started getting withdrawal symptoms similar to when I'd go off SSRIs. At first I thought the room was shaking because of some road workers nearby. Then I realized it was my brain, twerking in my skull. I had some nausea, malaise... just "those" symptoms of withdrawal. Anyone who's gone off SSRIs will understand. They were moderate in intensity, and I did have to go take 1/2 mg. Cypro to make it stop just so I could function and focus on other things. I was pretty much OK the rest of the day.
I've been OK so far today, just very mild symptoms that go quick, I hardly notice them. I think I'm off it now -I doubt I have a need to take a bit of Cypro to stop symptoms like I did yesterday.
For now I will just suffer through with allergies.