Posted by bleauberry on September 11, 2009, at 17:26:38
In reply to Thorazine withdrawal, posted by Maxime on September 11, 2009, at 16:15:41
After 8 years on prozac and zyprexa, I weaned off prozac first, and experienced the same leg pains you describe. They lasted probably almost two months. After they were gone, for a very short time I tried to get back on prozac. Guess what, the pains came back doing that! Then stopping it, they intensified more for a few weeks and slowly went away. Then, after weaning off zyprexa, again those leg pains showed up and again lasted about two months. Quite painful. You are right, it felt like I had walked a great distance, like maybe 50 miles uphill.
To this day I am still very sensitive to that happening. It is odd, but I have noticed that too much sulfur will bring hints of that pain back. Too many eggs for too many days in a row. Too much garlic for too many days in a row. DMSA chelation for sure, heavy in sulfur.
What is the connection in all this? Where do the leg pains come from? I have not a clue. All I know is that it has to be some kind of neurological syndrome related to the neurotransmitters and receptors readjusting, and that maybe, just maybe, as in my case, the person could be easily predisposed to it happening again.
I wonder if it falls in the category of one of the movement disorders of antipsychotics? It kind of sounds similar as well to the stiffnesss that Parkinsons patients experience.
I don't know. I don't like it. I know what you are feeling. I wish I had something to offer.
Since then I have found only two things helpful to make my legs feel a lot better. St Johns Wort, or tiny dose Cymbalta. Why is that? I have no clue.
Most of the time it is non-existent or minor. But it is so easily provoked as to remind me that psychiatric meds do not come without a cost.
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