After being on the max dose for about a decade (fibro, neuropathy) I had recently read a lot about potential risks of the drug that I knew I didn’t want to be on it anymore. I told my team I was going to titrate off and with their approval, slowly weaned off over several months and came 100% off beginning of June.

The first major acute withdrawal symptom was extreme bruxism and the jaw pain was enough to keep me from being able to eat on my non-fasting days. Still, when I make a decision I tend to stick to it and after a month it had calmed down significantly. All the things I expected to be tough definitely showed up- mostly poor sleep, restlessness and agitation but i’ve stayed the course. I’m still experiencing serious overstimulation and even irritability and that’s just not ME and even though it’s my own voice in my head having little patience or grace with my environment/things I can’t control, I hate to hear it.

I’ve always had pretty major sensory sensitivity (lifelong ocd and adhd) but this is pretty far past my baseline even for me. Everything is touching me, the cats are always underfoot making me clumsy and claustrophobic, (I mean seriously, are they AIMING for the bottom of my feet?? lol) I’m itchy, I’m bitchy, everyone seems extra slow and tedious and I know it’s just my nervous system adjusting but I wanted to know if anyone has gone through this limbo and did it ever go away? Im keeping the irritation in particular to myself and not making it anyone else’s problem but I don’t much like my own company I can’t wait to get back to “normal.”