u/NiceHomework4919

I feel so intens scared, agressieve, frustrated and super dumd every day. It could be my ADD but my memory is so declined, i am afraid to do anything because of mistakes and not have the cognitive function to solve it. I even forget to lock my bicycle, i dont know how i survive any of this. My sleep is so bad every day, i have tinnitus that drives me crazy. I regret going off the meds so much and there is no going back. The world is to much for me, everything goes so fast. I need a miracle so much🙏🏻

I should have never stopped. I was so stupid to stop cold Turkey, i wish i was warned by anyone. I am autistic and have ADD plus anxiety disorder and just should accepted that i would be on meds my hole live and accept the lightheadness every day as a side effect. I now am off 1 year and 2 months from 16 years of different antidepressants use, dexamfetamine and antipsychotics for sleep. It was hell to get off, but is feel much wurse now than ever before. I can't do anything, forget everything, i have nights of no sleep or if i sleep it is 2,3 of 4 hours. I can hardly breath, feel "on" every day but so, so tired. Yes the lightheaded had stopped a bit but it was not worth the hell i am living right now.

I have lost my 4,5 years gf, i live with my parents. I can't accept sounds, if i calmed down it does not help if i do things it does not help. I have tinnitus and the stuck song syndrome and i dont feel there is any progress in healing i want my symptoms to go away. I want to live a bit again.

Please tell us what kind of meds you have used and all your withdrawal symptoms, especially the cognitive symptoms.

Cognitieve symptoms:

Fysical symptoms:

What works for sleep for you?

First of all thank you for taking the time to read my situation.

I've tried everything and my sleep is only seems to getting wurse to a point i lie in bed and feel anxious to even try to fall asleap hart pounding and thought all over. It used to be that i had a i dont care mode, my brain was so stupid that it could hardly think so i just felt a sleep. Now the brain seems to heal a bit so it thinks at the moment i lie in bed.

I am one year and two months "clean", i was using 16 years antidepressants; 15 years citalopram 30mg and 1 year venlafaxine, i stoped citalopram cold Turkey then reinstaded sertraline and citalopram (combi) switched to venlafaxine. Used that a half year at 150mg and tapered this in a half year. Next to it i used seraquel for 1 year to sleep and tapered this off in 4 months.

I am dealing with tinnitus and the stuck song syndrome what is really irritable.

For sleep; i always try to fall a sleep by mezelf first, if it works i get 2,3,4,5 hours sleep with sometimes 7,8 or more (probably exhausted because of all the short nights)

I go to bed around 24, or sooner if i feel tired enough.

I first try natural stuff like Golden poppy 500mg x 4 and melatonine 1 mg, sometimes this worked but lately it ain't doing shit.

I also have promethazine and Doxylamine but those also do nothing or/and leave me with a bad feeling the morning after.

Even tried. Daridorexant, but since that my sleep have been getting wurse. I am terrified since then.

I am forced to take a benzo to deal with the anxious feelings sometimes.

And if lucky i fall a sleep and get some relief of maby 4 hours. The best feeling is that after a benzo i dont have the terrible morning anxious.

It feels the longer i am in the process of "healing" the more anxiouser i get.

I tried all the basic herbs like valarian root magnesium etc.

I tried PS (phosphatidylserine) because a women told me it should work against the stuck song syndrome, i stopped taking it.

I tried l typothaan because it should help getting more serotonine and thus more melatonine. I stopped taking it.

I stop taking these because, yes i get one or two nights of 5 hours sleep, but eventually end up with the same nights of one hour or no sleep at all and/or a anxious day.

Doing sleep hygiëne rules everyday, long walks of 3 hours a day etc. Meditation does not do anything for me.

I am diagnosed with ADD, general anxiety disorder and ocd thoughts.

I take omega 3 and vitamine D everyday.

I dont know what to do anymore what actually would help? I have extreme trouble in dealing with life everyday it gives me lots of stress and i cannot enjoy anything anymore without having anxious thoughts about the past, future and my situation. Everyday i still do things as through it is really hard

Please share all what you do and what works for you, i am really great full for your advice🙏🏻

Very important EDIT:

I also used dexamfetamine for 15 years.

I now sleep 1 or 2 hours or not at all. Tried stopping omega 3 and vitamine 3D and this seems to make falling a sleep harder?

Don't know what to do anymore, really thinking about ending the suffering. I dont have restored sleep and mentally i am getting wurse and wurse.

Life is extremely hard, looks like i can't function without the ADD meds, i keep forgetting everything etc. I cannot even follow a conversation, dont understand tv anymore, i cannot cook or take care of myself.

And i am in a window...

I now have symptoms like extreme hart pounding, skin is burning, my foot always hurt. The days are soo long.

Should i go back on 0,1mg or 0,5 mg of Quentiapine just for sleep?

Dear fellow T sufferers,

I developed T after using antidepressants. I've now been off all medication for more than a year (I also used antipsychotics to help me sleep). Unfortunately, my tinnitus has remained. Although it has become somewhat quieter over time—I suspect that's because the auditory system naturally becomes less sensitive with the time span of a year—I still struggle with it a lot.

What I'm struggling with even more, though, is insomnia. For over a year now, I've had nights with no sleep at all, or only 1, 2, 3, or 4 hours of sleep, and only rarely 5 hours or more. It's really taking a toll on me, to the point where I've started experimenting with different remedies again.

I've always been against cannabis because THC can have negative effects on memory and lung health. But I'm so desperate that I'm now considering buying cannabis oil and giving it a try.

Does anyone here have experience with it? If so, how did it affect your T?

What works for sleep for you?

First of all thank you for taking the time to read my situation.

I've tried everything and my sleep is only seems to getting wurse to a point i lie in bed and feel anxious to even try to fall asleap hart pounding and thought all over. It used to be that i had a i dont care mode, my brain was so stupid that it could hardly think so i just felt a sleep. Now the brain seems to heal a bit so it thinks at the moment i lie in bed.

I am one year and two months "clean", i was using 16 years antidepressants; 15 years citalopram 30mg and 1 year venlafaxine, i stoped citalopram cold Turkey then reinstaded sertraline and citalopram (combi) switched to venlafaxine. Used that a half year at 150mg and tapered this in a half year. Next to it i used seraquel for 1 year to sleep and tapered this off in 4 months.

I am dealing with tinnitus and the stuck song syndrome what is really irritable.

For sleep; i always try to fall a sleep by mezelf first, if it works i get 2,3,4,5 hours sleep with sometimes 7,8 or more (probably exhausted because of all the short nights)

I go to bed around 24, or sooner if i feel tired enough.

I first try natural stuff like Golden poppy 500mg x 4 and melatonine 1 mg, sometimes this worked but lately it ain't doing shit.

I also have promethazine and Doxylamine but those also do nothing or/and leave me with a bad feeling the morning after.

Even tried. Daridorexant, but since that my sleep have been getting wurse. I am terrified since then.

I am forced to take a benzo to deal with the anxious feelings sometimes.

And if lucky i fall a sleep and get some relief of maby 4 hours. The best feeling is that after a benzo i dont have the terrible morning anxious.

It feels the longer i am in the process of "healing" the more anxiouser i get.

I tried all the basic herbs like valarian root magnesium etc.

I tried PS (phosphatidylserine) because a women told me it should work against the stuck song syndrome, i stopped taking it.

I tried l typothaan because it should help getting more serotonine and thus more melatonine. I stopped taking it.

I stop taking these because, yes i get one or two nights of 5 hours sleep, but eventually end up with the same nights of one hour or no sleep at all and/or a anxious day.

Doing sleep hygiëne rules everyday, long walks of 3 hours a day etc. Meditation does not do anything for me.

I am diagnosed with ADD, general anxiety disorder and ocd thoughts.

I take omega 3 and vitamine D everyday.

I dont know what to do anymore what actually would help? I have extreme trouble in dealing with life everyday it gives me lots of stress and i cannot enjoy anything anymore without having anxious thoughts about the past, future and my situation. Everyday i still do things as through it is really hard

Please share all what you do and what works for you, i am really great full for your advice🙏🏻

If you can sleep and you don't have tinnitus, please counter yourself so so lucky and you will heal and live your life again to the fullest.

I cannot sleep, got screaming tinnitus 24/7 and to make it much wurse i have the stuck song syndrome next to my ADD, Anxiety disorder and autism.

I am now one year off all meds, if i can survive this some way or a other, anybody could!

I am terrified everyday, tired but wired, cannot function properly on any way, this is not a life, my God what did i do to deserve all this, life has never been fair to me. Forgive me for any bad English, my brain is broken. Why did nobody warned me for these pills?

Is it possible for the moderator/s to post more succes stories of people that where on strong antidepressants long term like 16+ year and they did recover, good sleep, no tinnitus anymore etc. I know i could find it myself at survingantidepressants.com, but the layout and how the site works is terrible for my messed up brain. Reddit is so much easier.

I need some hope and positive stories.

Thank you very much!

Having no sleep or little as 2,3 hours each days is making my body temperature extreem hot, can you guys relate? Does this get better if i ever sleep better?

Is it save to use QuviviQ for sleep when you got tinnitus by antidepressants use?

What was the reason you went off?

My reason was that i became Light headed almost all the time.

Would you take antidepressants your hole life?

I am more then one year off after 16 years of use because it made me licht headed like almost all the time.

I feel so bad right now and can't even function anymore, i have ADD, anxiety disorder and autistic. With the meds and dexamfetamine, i could function but i allready created some sleep problems. So yeah, i guess sooner or later you need to get off them because of the side effects that increase, but damm what is life without my meds extreme hard and i cannot even explain to others what goes wrong in my brain.

Ohh yeahh, i also have me tinnitus and insomnia😩

Is it possible to be on this medication for life even if you are a grandpa/grandma?

Dora's

Quviviq (daridorexant)

Dayvigo (Lemborexant)

Belsomra (suvorexant)

The latest sleep medication seems to be better than benzos etc. They work differently. I have heard many positive stories about it. I've even read that people can get rid of benzos because of the use of these new drugs. No medical advice. Do your own research and ask your doctor.

Did any of you guys have use this?

I need a tolerable sleepmed because i can't live like this, with no stable sleep. Please let me know and your experience and for how long you are using it now.

Do you guys sleep?

Am i the only one that have nights with no sleep at all?

Does it get better with time or is my sleep broken for live?

Others can mask their T now with all the ventilators and airconditioning. It makes my Y only louder a high frequency EEEE right through it. My God what a nightmare this is.

Hoe lang slapen jullie met dit weer? Ik had een nacht van 5/6 uurtjes. Ik sliep pas laat door de hitte en werd al vroeg wakker door de hitte en ik kan dan echt niet weer in slaap vallen (eenmaal wakker=wakker). Ben ik de enige? Pak jij wel 8/7 uur?

For me; i take omega 3 and vitamine 3D when needed (when there is no sun)

And working on my gut (eating more fibers in the morning)

I keep trying to do activities even i don't have the mood or energy for it. Really struggling with that i dont like anything anymore. Struggling with severe Insomnia, stuck song syndrome and tinnitus. And severe anxiety/panic attacks. I (m34) am one year off 16 years of antidepressants (citalopram 14 years, venlafaxine 1 year), 16 years of stimulants (dexamfetamine) and 1,5 year of antipsychotics (for sleep Quentiapine). things did become a little bit better but i still doesn't feel like true human (mainly cognitief functioning etc.) The fact everybody is living there live and keep going forward and i am standing still and can't figure out; how i most keep going forward with this live.

I have ADD, anxiety disorder and i now know i am autism. When on the meds i always was light headed every day. Now i am light headed sometimes.

What else can i do that help healing from PAWS?

Thank you for helping/sharing your experience.

Is his forum about people with ADD/ADHD that stop their stimulant medication or is this for normal people that abuse stimulans because the wanted to work harder etc? Or is this forum for people that use cocaïne, speed etc?

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Thank you for replying.

Hello guys, i keep replying on posts with these meds. I keep reading that people that took them have a good experience, the only problem are the costs. Maby the more people have good experience the lower the cost become in the future? Anyway i dont want any more people to suffer as is suffer. These are the pils

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Dora's

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Quviviq (daridorexant)

Dayvigo (Lemborexant)

Belsomra (suvorexant)

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The latest sleep medication seems to be better than benzos etc. They work differently. I have heard many positive stories about it. I've even read that people can get rid of benzos because of the use of these new drugs. No medical advice. Do your own research and ask your doctor. I wish I could get them, but they're not available in my country. Just share this information in the hope of helping some people and doing something good in the world with the time I have left.

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Sleep tracking is such bullshit. You lie in bed and not sleeping a bit and this device says that you have deep sleep😅 ....