4+ Years of Hydroxyzine Use. Cold Turkey. Attempt 3, Day 1.
Little bit of backstory: I was prescribed 25mg Hydroxyzine for insomnia about 3-4 years ago (could even longer ago, I honestly don't remember). For all of those years except for very recently, I have been taking one per night.
Its just gotten to a point where it doesn't even make me tired anymore, just makes me feel groggy in the morning. So, I decided to just stop taking it because I saw no use for it earlier this year. First day, woke up and vomited, second day, same thing, third day got so nauseous when I was driving I ended up crashing a car. I was really confused as to why I was feeling so queasy all day, so I looked up the symptoms of Hydroxyzine withdrawal and sure enough.. nausea is a symptom.
So I got back on the meds and decided I would just figure it out later. Started to ween myself off a few months later (just taking halves) and it worked okay.. got a lot of headaches though.. did it for a few weeks and decided to stop taking them all together figuring my time taking less would help the overall withdrawals. 4 days of no Hydroxyzine equaled 4 days of migrains. Looked up the withdrawal symptoms again and sure enough...headaches. So I started to get back on them and just figure it out.
Im tired and exhausted of trying and failing to get off this drug. I don't need to take it anymore, it doesn't benefit any part of my life. So I'm done, I didn't take my dose last night. I am going cold turkey after about a month of being on them again. Wish I had known the withdrawals of 3-4+ years of Hydroxyzine use, but now I know and I am expecting them. Gonna keep a log (whether on here or not) of my progress. Gonna be done with this drug!! For real this time :)