Suppose i'm still a newbie. I joined last year when I started Champix the first time, but then stopped them because they made me feel quite sick and if i'm honest, i wasn't really ready to give up.
This time, I was very ready, started Champix again on 17th of November 2010, then stopped them on 1st of December 2010.
I stopped them because I felt I was ready. I cut down to half morning, half evening on day 15 as the 1mg morning one still made me feel ill, then day 16 I had half in the morning, then forgot to take anymore.
I stopped smoking on day 8. I felt like i was cheating because it was so easy!
I'm still not smoking, I do not wish to and the smell is revolting.
I am however concerned about my health.
I started to get really dizzy from Monday last week, this is 3 days after taking the last Champix half tablet. I went to the GP on Tuesday who said I had benign positional vertigo.
During the week I was getting more distressed with the dizzy feelings and very, very irrational, emotional, slow, forgetful and angry, non-of these are me.
I saw a different GP on Friday, who said I was withdrawing from the Champix itself, as well as having a cold and being a bit stressed. Told me to give it a couple of weeks and then go back if not feeling any better.
Work let me have half days from Tuesday to Friday, just to give me a break and stop me going off sick.
Now, I like to think i'm quite a rational person and I wouldn't have taken Champix not knowing of what problems have been reported by some people taking this medication.
On Champix I was fine, off it i'm a mess.
Is the dizzyness just my oxygen level up? Even now, 3 weeks from having smoked a ciggy?
If I can crack the dizzyness, I could at least feel a little normal, the rest would work itself out.
I can't deal with this dizzyness for another fortnight, i will literally go crazy.
AM I NORMAL???! :confused:
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From what you have said here its almost like im looking back to the beginning of my quit when i too gave up on the Champix on day 5 stopped smoking yet 11 days after i started the champix i stopped because i felt so bad and not like me.
10 -14 days after i had my last tablet so about the same time frame as you i started to feel better. Dont give up hope as i i do think that if you hang on in there a little longer the side effects will wear off. Im 7 weeks quit now and feel great. Those Champix took about 10-14 days to leave my body so as i have said HANG ON. Have a look through my first posts/threads and you will see how i felt at the beginning maybe you will be able to see the similarities to us.
That gives me some reasurrance. Im at about day 9 post Champix so keeping my fingers crossed i'll feel better soon. Bloody hope so anyway, works Christmas party on Friday lol!
I really did think I was going crackers! Seems I'm not crazy afterall.
I see my Nurse again on the 21st of December, unfortunately, our nurses only see you every two weeks, rather than every week. My nurse doesn't even know i'm not taking the champix any more!
I phoned the doctors and spoke to the other cessation nurse at my surgery to ask if I could be suffering withdrawal from the champix (this was before i saw the GP on Friday) and she said, no and to go and get some Nicorette lozenges!
Why on earth would I want to do that when I'd not had any nicotine in my body for nearly two weeks at the time!?! I've not had much support from my cessation course to be honest.
My OH has been a rock, I have given him a whole load of crap the last few days and he's been there to hold me when I can't do anything else but cry.
We also live with my parents, who both smoke, though my Dad is trying to give up again (he has COPD and has had two heart attacks so needs to) and I'm sure my Mum will try again as well, so at the moment its doubly hard. There is no smoking in the house, only out the back, which is unfortunately under my bedroom window
I really do hope that this dizzyness goes soon. I can handle feeling grumpy, I can handle crying and feeling down and emotional, what I can't handle is not being able to funtion properly because I can't concentrate and I feel like my head is buzzing all the time.
I work for the NHS, they don't take too kindly to sickness lol.
I should really take up my knitting again! I have a scarf with 3 inches knitted on it from last year, might be an idea to get that finished lol!
Don't worry about the cessation nurse too much, I think they have set things they are told to say! I Was put on zyban, and stopped after one day as did not like the way they made me feel (note: maybe it was nicotine withdrawl, but blaming tablets worked better in not having a ciggie!). When I saw the nurse 10 days after CT she tried to convince me into NRT. I just ignored that!
I think they are taught the spiel and do not read around, not their fault they are busy, but it is UP to you to look after YOUR quit and know what is best for YOU!
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