Hi Everyone. I’m just in the process of crossing over from SA. Will be back later to post.

 

You can find my journey so far in my SA blog here; https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/forums/topic/32119-pokey449-doxepin-mirtazapine-nightmare/

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Hey Pokey

 

Welcome to the forum mate! Great to see you here.

 

Thanks for starting your Intro thread.

 

I've linked your SA blog above for you.

 

I copied your signature over from SA as well so you don't need to worry about that.

 

All ready for you when you want to post.

 

Chippy

Thank you for joining.

 

Hopefully in time posting here will give you a similar level of support.

Hey Pokey! 

Hope to connect with you here soon and read about your improvements. I know it’s been a long road for you. Glad you were able to travel a while back to see family and hope you were able to do it again for the holidays. It’s challenge being between both sites at the moment but we won’t have to worry about that in about 4 weeks. 

Take care!

Hey Pokey! 

Hope to connect with you here soon and read about your improvements. I know it’s been a long road for you. Glad you were able to travel a while back to see family and hope you were able to do it again for the holidays. It’s challenge being between both sites at the moment but we won’t have to worry about that in about 4 weeks. 

Take care!

 

I’m still learning how to navigate this site. Hope I figure it out by the time SA shuts down. When does SA formally shutdown?

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Hey Pokey! 

Hope to connect with you here soon and read about your improvements. I know it’s been a long road for you. Glad you were able to travel a while back to see family and hope you were able to do it again for the holidays. It’s challenge being between both sites at the moment but we won’t have to worry about that in about 4 weeks. 

Take care!

 

I’m still learning how to navigate this site. Hope I figure it out by the time SA shuts down. When does SA formally shutdown?

I’m still learning how to navigate this site. Hope I figure it out by the time SA shuts down. When does SA formally shutdown?

Hey Pokey

 

Great to see you on here mate!

 

If you need any help with it let me know? There are a couple of tips in a sticky thread at the top of the intro section;

 

Posting Tips - Please Read

 

SA goes read only on the 31st Jan.

 

Chippy

Hi Pokey, good to see you on here mate, we can keep the comradery going, and hopefully keep

each other safe. I will still be on SA until the very last day, then move to this fantastic site.

See you soon Pokey.     B.  

Hi Pokey, good to see you on here mate, we can keep the comradery going, and hopefully keep

each other safe. I will still be on SA until the very last day, then move to this fantastic site.

See you soon Pokey.     B.  

 

Hi B. I’m waiting until I get back home to my computer to become fully familiar with this website. A cell phone is not optimal. For example I cannot figure out how to do my profile here. Just isn’t working with my iPhone.  Will keep touching base on SA for now. 

Pokey will

Hey Pokey

 

We are planning a update to the site soon which should make it more suer friendly for you on mobile.

 

Chippy

Hello fellow ADHRF members: I am trying to start my conversion over to this site. I just updated my profile. I just provided the basics, figured thats all anyone needs to know about my past. What's past is past. The struggle is today!!!  Thanks to Chippy, Luke and others who have done all this work to keep a site like this alive. I already think this site is more user friendly than SA was. I could never figure out how to edit my profile on SA, It was a piece of cake here. Looking forward to this site going full time.

Cheers

Pokey

I was wrong about my profile being easy to edit. I see its my profile from SA which is not up to date. When I go to edit profile it takes me to what I updated today, but that is not showing at the bottom of my post today, only my old profile. Chippy or Luke can you give me some guidance. Thank you

Good to see you over here in the new site mate!
 

Just checked your profile you’ve filled in your ‘about me’ section which is just some where to put a profile write up about you and only shows on your profile. The bit that shows under your posts is your signature. You edit this here Edit Signature

Hi @Pokey449 Good to see you on here, and in the flesh as well, top stuff Bud.

Take great care,     B.👍

@Pokey449 it looks like @Chippy is helping you with your profile so I'll not jump in and muddy the waters.

 

I just wanted to add, it's no stress and your signature is all working so don't worry about it too much, you'll get there.

 

As we've said before, we're glad to have you.

@Chippy I think I finally got my profile edited correctly. When is the last posting day on SA, the 31st??

Just now, Pokey449 said:

@Chippy I think I finally got my profile edited correctly. When is the last posting day on SA, the 31st??

Well done bud. Yep I think so.

Just posting to “stay in line” here on AH&R. Thanks to Chippy,Luke and any others for doing this and giving all of us struggling with these damned drugs a place to gather and share our stories & offer support to each other. Lord knows most of professional psychiatry is of little help or even cares. Talk with you all later. Hope everyone is as well as they can be. Cheers

Pokey 

17 hours ago, Pokey449 said:

Just posting to “stay in line” here on AH&R. Thanks to Chippy,Luke and any others for doing this and giving all of us struggling with these damned drugs a place to gather and share our stories & offer support to each other. Lord knows most of professional psychiatry is of little help or even cares. Talk with you all later. Hope everyone is as well as they can be. Cheers

Pokey 

 

No worries, you can post here as much or as little as you like, whether you have specific questions, need support or even if you just feel like you want to keep in touch.

@NT1100B @Chippy  I’m exhausted & in a panic. I split my dose yesterday taking 1/2 at  8am and the other 1/2 at bedtime as was suggested to me. I had a terrible night. Awoke about 230 very restless. Worst night ever. Spasms of Akathisia, or that’s what I call Akathisia. An awful restlessness that draws me up into a ball. Think I should have made the timing of the split  gradual as recommended in a post by ChessyCat on SA; take the other 1/2 of your dose a hour later each day until you reach the time you want.  I don’t know what to do now. Feeling bad and in a panic wondering how to fix this. Do I go back to full dose at my regular time of 8am and then start taking the 2nd split dose an hour later each day, 2 hours later each day or what?? Should I schedule with Horowitz again and see what he says. 
Are the moderators of SA making the switch to here?? I need to get this straightened out or I think I’m going curl up in a ball and die. 

9 minutes ago, Pokey449 said:

@NT1100B @Chippy  I’m exhausted & in a panic. I split my dose yesterday taking 1/2 at  8am and the other 1/2 at bedtime as was suggested to me. I had a terrible night. Awoke about 230 very restless. Worst night ever. Spasms of Akathisia, or that’s what I call Akathisia. An awful restlessness that draws me up into a ball. Think I should have made the timing of the split  gradual as recommended in a post by ChessyCat on SA; take the other 1/2 of your dose a hour later each day until you reach the time you want.  I don’t know what to do now. Feeling bad and in a panic wondering how to fix this. Do I go back to full dose at my regular time of 8am and then start taking the 2nd split dose an hour later each day, 2 hours later each day or what?? Should I schedule with Horowitz again and see what he says. 
Are the moderators of SA making the switch to here?? I need to get this straightened out or I think I’m going curl up in a ball and die. 

Hey Pokey

 

Oh no. This was my worry when you were talking about splitting you dose last year.

 

Yes perhaps you should have moved gradually as you mentioned here.

 

If it was me I would revert back to your old times and sit there and stabilise as much as you can.

 

Then look to switch your dose more gradually from there. 

 

@getofflex what do you think? Do you agree? 

 

Chippy

6 hours ago, Chippy said:

If it was me I would revert back to your old times and sit there and stabilise as much as you can.

 

Then look to switch your dose more gradually from there. 

 

@getofflex what do you think? Do you agree? 

 

OK, which drug are you talking about?  I see you are on several.  Yes, I would agree with Chippy.  I'm not familiar with how to gradually shift to a split dose, but Chessie Cat's idea sounds very sound. But for now, go back to what you were doing, and wait a bit before you try to change how you dose yourself again. 

@getofflex the drug in question is doxepin. It has 15-18hr half life. It’s the one I’m tapering, not the mirtazapine. I’ve been getting interdose tolerance symptoms that’s been waking me up with regularity in the wee hours with uncomfortable symptoms. Horowitz suggested I take 1/2 dose at my usual 8am and the other 1/2 at bedtime. That’s what I did and it didn’t go well. Much to quick. So I reverted back to a full dose at 8 am and will hold there until I smooth out and try again at a much slower gradual pace. If this was my first taper I probably would have been ok but unfortunately it’s not my first taper. I had to get to being 76 to finally realize I need to stop taking these poisons  🤔☹️

@Chippy is this new site going to eventually be like SA and send emails to let you know someone has posted on your thread? Doesn’t seem to be doing that yet. I appreciate there’s lots to do setting up a site like this. So far it’s great!!! 

I'm not familiar with doxepin.  Hope things improve for you when you go back to your previous dosing schedule.