57 minutes ago, EDP6893 said:

Bad news. I am not recovering from this soon. Not even close. I've kept a dairy of my symptoms and it goes like this.

base = the normal amount of burning genital pain I'vew had for the last 8 months. Hurts and keeps me up at night, but the pain isn't bad enough to force me to go to the toilet every 30mins or less.
+ = the pain forces me to go to the toilet every 30mins or less.

1st of april - base level of pain
2nd - extra pains suddenly comes back. +
3rd - base
4th -base
5th - +
6th - no pain
7th - base
8th - base
9th +
10th - +
11th - +
12th - +
13th - +
14th - base
15th - base
16th - +
17th - +
18th - +
19th - base
20th - +
21 - base
22 - +

As you can see there are no signs of recovery yet and it's been almost a month. I fear this will last a lot longer than a month. Many months. Perhaps even years.

I don't have a choice I must try to adapt to the worst case scenario because there is no way of predicting the withdrawal. But I can't stop becoming more depressed and lonely in becoming even more disabled and limited in life.

The process is nonlinear so it may not feel like an improvement to you @EDP6893 especially since you're in the early days, a month is a drop in the ocean so it will take longer than that, I know we want it easier and quicker but it doesn't work like that unfortunately.

Just remember that your system doesn't rest and healing occurs with every passing moment.

Hang on and keep surviving as you do so well, It will be difficult at times, yes, but things will slowly get better.

Edited April 22Apr 22 by Fullhealing

18 hours ago, EDP6893 said:

Yesterday the pain was better again.

Fantastic to hear 😀

6 hours ago, EDP6893 said:

Bad news. I am not recovering from this soon. Not even close. I've kept a dairy of my symptoms and it goes like this.

base = the normal amount of burning genital pain I'vew had for the last 8 months. Hurts and keeps me up at night, but the pain isn't bad enough to force me to go to the toilet every 30mins or less.
+ = the pain forces me to go to the toilet every 30mins or less.

1st of april - base level of pain
2nd - extra pains suddenly comes back. +
3rd - base
4th -base
5th - +
6th - no pain
7th - base
8th - base
9th +
10th - +
11th - +
12th - +
13th - +
14th - base
15th - base
16th - +
17th - +
18th - +
19th - base
20th - +
21 - base
22 - +

As you can see there are no signs of recovery yet and it's been almost a month. I fear this will last a lot longer than a month. Many months. Perhaps even years.

I don't have a choice I must try to adapt to the worst case scenario because there is no way of predicting the withdrawal. But I can't stop becoming more depressed and lonely in becoming even more disabled and limited in life.

I’m sorry to read. 😞

It can be this way sometimes. Takes a long time to settle. But settle it will. The fluctuations are a good sign. Shows your body working things out. I hope things start to improve more quickly soon @EDP6893.

11 hours ago, Fullhealing said:

The process is nonlinear so it may not feel like an improvement to you @EDP6893 especially since you're in the early days, a month is a drop in the ocean so it will take longer than that, I know we want it easier and quicker but it doesn't work like that unfortunately.

Just remember that your system doesn't rest and healing occurs with every passing moment.

Hang on and keep surviving as you do so well, It will be difficult at times, yes, but things will slowly get better.

But my withdrawals have been going on for 16 months so how is that "early days"?

14 minutes ago, EDP6893 said:

But my withdrawals have been going on for 16 months so how is that "early days"?

I see you stoped one medication on late march

2 hours ago, Fullhealing said:

I see you stoped one medication on late march

I was forced (by my psychiatrist) to cold turkey effexor in december 2024. Since then that's how long I have had withdrawal

6 hours ago, Fullhealing said:

I see you stoped one medication on late march

@EDP6893 I think you should have tapered Daridorexant down rather than just stop it. This may be adding to this for you.

16 hours ago, Chippy said:

@EDP6893 I think you should have tapered Daridorexant down rather than just stop it. This may be adding to this for you.

Maybe but I didn't suffer any negative consequences when I stopped the daridorexant for a while. And I have had this level of pain previously. Granted not as consistently like this for a whole month, but still.

You could be right though.

But online all my research said it was safe to suddenly stop.

Edited April 24Apr 24 by EDP6893

Yesterday was a good day pain wise.

34 minutes ago, EDP6893 said:

Maybe but I didn't suffer any negative consequences when I stopped the daridorexant for a while. And I have had this level of pain previously. Granted not as consistently like this for a whole month, but still.

You could be right though.

But online all my research said it was safe to suddenly stop.

When the system is still in the wd process, it's a different story and can provoke reactions so it's something that needs to be taken into account and can explain the current state. In any case, the system will know how to correct itself in this as well, regardless I really don't think there's such a thing as stopping such medications suddenly without any reaction. I took an antihistamine for a very short period of time that was listed as very safe drug to stop abruptly and I got a hell of a slap for a whole month..

Edited April 24Apr 24 by Fullhealing

59 minutes ago, EDP6893 said:

Maybe but I didn't suffer any negative consequences when I stopped the daridorexant for a while. And I have had this level of pain previously. Granted not as consistently like this for a whole month, but still.

You could be right though.

But online all my research said it was safe to suddenly stop.

I’m sorry it’s so rough for you. I hope it hasn’t made it worse. Unfortunately a lot of the advice online isn’t good. It’s best to taper most things psycho active. It could be it’s adding to all this, but hard to know. Worth keeping it in mind, when judging your timescale though. Add it to Prozac’s long half life, and perhaps you can see why things might be more bumpy for you now than you may have hoped. Not that, that makes it any easy to deal with, but maybe less worrying when thinking about the time taken that’s all.

On 4/24/2026 at 10:57 AM, Fullhealing said:

When the system is still in the wd process, it's a different story and can provoke reactions so it's something that needs to be taken into account and can explain the current state. In any case, the system will know how to correct itself in this as well, regardless I really don't think there's such a thing as stopping such medications suddenly without any reaction. I took an antihistamine for a very short period of time that was listed as very safe drug to stop abruptly and I got a hell of a slap for a whole month..

I wasn't aware that even stopping safe drugs would be so bad for someone in protracted withdrawal.

Anyways I have had 2 good days and today so far seems good.

On 4/24/2026 at 11:24 AM, Chippy said:

I’m sorry it’s so rough for you. I hope it hasn’t made it worse. Unfortunately a lot of the advice online isn’t good. It’s best to taper most things psycho active. It could be it’s adding to all this, but hard to know. Worth keeping it in mind, when judging your timescale though. Add it to Prozac’s long half life, and perhaps you can see why things might be more bumpy for you now than you may have hoped. Not that, that makes it any easy to deal with, but maybe less worrying when thinking about the time taken that’s all.

Well I don't plan on making more any drug changes anytime soon. And I'm still not confident it was even daridorexant's fault or the supplements as I have had this pain before. It could just be a coincidence.

Edited April 25Apr 25 by EDP6893

6 minutes ago, EDP6893 said:

Anyways I have had 2 good days and today so far seems good.

Absolutely wonderful! @EDP6893 you deserve this! enjoy the good moments and draw strength to continue. so very proud of you for the way you're coping, well done.

Edited April 25Apr 25 by Fullhealing

@EDP6893 How have you been ? Hopefully you been well

4 hours ago, EDP6893 said:

Anyways I have had 2 good days and today so far seems good.

I am very pleased to read this 😀

@Chippy @Fullhealing @Lighty Do you guys think I had set back my withdrawal recovery for years because I stopped the daridorexant? I don't want to believe this is the case but it's possible.

But it doesn't seem that logical to me. Daridorexant is not known for causing any withdrawal, and is just a sleeping pill. It's not like I stopped effexor cold turkey for a 3rd time. And when I stopped daridorexant last year when that time it had also worn off-no extra withdrawals.

I don't think it's likely to be the daridorexant. I think I am just very unlucky with my withdrawals and they have randomly gotten much worse.

Edited April 25Apr 25 by EDP6893

4 hours ago, Lighty said:

@EDP6893 How have you been ? Hopefully you been well

It's been really painful but I'm enduring it.

My reflux isn't any better though. I guess acid rebound is gonna take months instead of just 1 month. All this over just slightly changing my medication times for the omeprazole and famotadine because the clocks changed.

When the clocks change next time I'm just gonna change my usual times so that it's the same as now. If the clocks go forward 1 hour then I take them at 7am and 4pm instead of 8am and 5pm.

Edited April 25Apr 25 by EDP6893

6 minutes ago, EDP6893 said:

@Chippy @Fullhealing @Lighty Do you guys think I had set back my withdrawal recovery for years because I stopped the daridorexant? I don't want to believe this is the case but it's possible.

Absolutely not, don't let wd mind dig there!

5 hours ago, EDP6893 said:

Anyways I have had 2 good days and today so far seems good.

Congratulations...it seems we are in the same boat. Today is my 9 consecutive day feeling good after 16 months journey. I hope we finally get a break...

10 hours ago, EDP6893 said:

@Chippy @Fullhealing @Lighty Do you guys think I had set back my withdrawal recovery for years because I stopped the daridorexant ? I don't want to believe this is the case but it's possible

No I don’t think you set yourself back years. You can and will recover.

daridorexant Is psychoactive so taking it and stopping it can likely have a similar effect to other kinds of drugs. Drug harm comes from not just ADs too.

Best not to worry about it. I think if anything take some comfort that this isn’t just months of wd from Prozac there are other potential causes here, not forgetting the long fluoxetine half life.

You’ll recover just the same.

2 hours ago, Chippy said:

No I don’t think you set yourself back years. You can and will recover.

daridorexant Is psychoactive so taking it and stopping it can likely have a similar effect to other kinds of drugs. Drug harm comes from not just ADs too.

Best not to worry about it. I think if anything take some comfort that this isn’t just months of wd from Prozac there are other potential causes here, not forgetting the long fluoxetine half life.

You’ll recover just the same.

I agree with this.

23 hours ago, Raymond said:

Congratulations...it seems we are in the same boat. Today is my 9 consecutive day feeling good after 16 months journey. I hope we finally get a break...

I had 3 good days but unfortunately today has been a bad day.

13 hours ago, Chippy said:

No I don’t think you set yourself back years. You can and will recover.

daridorexant Is psychoactive so taking it and stopping it can likely have a similar effect to other kinds of drugs. Drug harm comes from not just ADs too.

Best not to worry about it. I think if anything take some comfort that this isn’t just months of wd from Prozac there are other potential causes here, not forgetting the long fluoxetine half life.

You’ll recover just the same.

I don't get your reasoning. You say other drugs are the same as daridorexant because it's psycho active (aka it's just as bad as cold turkey-ing a drug like effexor), yet you tell me not to worry that I could've set my recover back by years? You've given me no reason not to worry other than "just don't"

I think it is prozac withdrawal, because I did stop it last year and nothing happened so whatever.

Edited April 26Apr 26 by EDP6893

3 minutes ago, EDP6893 said:

You've given me no reason not to worry other than "just don't"

I thought perhaps understanding maybe it could be the cause of your current additional suffering could give you some reasoning behind the increased symptoms. I’m sorry if it gives you additional worry. You’ll heal regardless.