Lofepramine

[Vicss]

Anyone found lofepramine helpful for anxiety and depression. I mainly feel constantly wired and shaky like I'm on speed although I'm taking nothing. Recently come off citalopram as it was just making me more wired and shaky and tense and just felt totally weird and out of it. I really need something to help with dissociation. It's been a really really horrible few years of a gruelling nightmare of meds that haven't helped and I'm petrified they will make me do it off as I'm so wired I'm completely unfunctional x please help if You can I'm worried that it's mainly noradrenalin reuptake inhibitor and that will just wire me up even more (might be wrong but venlafaxine and duloxetine just made me terribly anxious with a racing heart hoping for reassurance x

[Dai05]

Hi Viccs, I have been on all the meds you've been on and they all made me feel awful too, sorry I don't have an answer for you.

[Allotmentmad]

Hello Vicss, I was on Citalopram for years and managed to come off it over the course of about a year. I took Boot's maximum strength St. John's Wort to help and I am convinced it did help. I am not familiar with the drugs you mention but I do know you cannot just stop taking these very powerful drugs. It sounds to me as if you are caught in a withdrawal loop and feeling worse than ever. That is what these drugs do. All I can advise is you look at what natural remedies are available and even consult a homeopath. Our pilltaking culture wants quick results but if you stick with it and trust your inner strong self you will come right. X

[Moodytwoshoes]

Hi Viccs,

I'm new to this community and came to access the info on Lofepramine, as I have just started this and it doesn't seem to be widely prescribed, hence hardly any personal experiences of it on the internet. I am on day 5 and I am also feeling really ramped up, can't sleep - from 3am every morning I am tossing and turning in and out of sleep what feels like every few minutes, it's crazy making. I am also so dizzy it feels like my brain is being thrown around in a choppy sea. I read that this drug is meant to be sedating and as I was having poor sleep I jumped at it, but it is having the exact opposite effect. I'm taking 70mg but have to increase to 140mg on day 7 - no idea how that will go. I see your post was a few months ago, did you continue with Lofepramine?