These are descriptions of how individuals experienced various symptoms during withdrawal. While everyone's withdrawal is unique and symptoms will be different for everyone, it may be useful to know what others went through. All withdrawal symptoms can be caused by things in addition to withdrawal. If a symptom is persistent or you are worried by it, it is always a good idea to get it checked out by your doctor to ensure nothing else is going on. ______________________________________________________________________ Definition: (n) A pain in the head with the pain being above the eyes or the ears, behind the head (occipital), or in the back of the upper neck. ______________________________________________________________________ What I've Felt: "You feel inexplicable waves of head pressure that can settle into bands of tightness encircling your scalp. You may have a piercing sensation in your eyes that corresponds to rigidity and tension in your neck, or comes and goes with lancing flashes of jaw pain. Occasional bursts of head pain may come and go without rhyme or reason; the longer bursts linger and turn into tension headaches. Any or all of these symptoms might arrive with the sensation of an electric current running through your head." "I've been lucky in that headaches, while omnipresent throughout the tail end of my taper and well into the post-withdrawal period, have never been crippling or limiting but I do get occasional flashes of head pain that feel as if my brain is cramping. Exertion, even with mild exercise such as basic yoga or light-duty weightlifting, rarely failed to bring on a headache - this at four months out from a CT). ______________________________________________________________________ What I've Felt: "I came off Zoloft, Topamax, Ultram and Klonopin nearly simultaneously and had some pounding headaches that were normally on one side of my head or the other. They would come and go and felt similar to the headaches that one gets when they discontinue caffeinated beverages. These only lasted for the first week after coming off these drugs." - Carter ______________________________________________________________________ My Coping Strategies
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