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If coming of anti depressives it is and isnt easy it depends on the person on them. l took 2 yrs to wean mum off when she wanted to come off slowly it can be done a lot lot faster same routine just for her slowed down to a slow crawl so don't let the time put you off as with everything each person is different
I contacted FRANK this link may help they cover all drugs legal and legal
http://www.bcnc.org.uk/howtowithdraw.htm
If you want more info message me l won't post it on open forum. Should warn that it may have changed but the withdraw info cost £12 sadly l don't have it now or would have sent it on. Most of it was very similar routine but should to be followed pretty straightforward but sensible. Whatever happens do not just stop them as our pratt of a dr said to do. He was shocked when l read him the riot act stormed out and went back after contacting FRANK and slammed the info down in front of him a couple of weeks later.
@Mud Island Dweller ...thanks for the link, have taken a quick look but am not sure that the antidepressants that my partner takes fall into the category of benzodiazepines...he is currently on 200mg sertraline a day (for depression) and 30mg amitriptline (for neuropathic pain but is effectively an anti-depressant in its nature when you read the leaflet)
Interestingly enough when I was looking up amitriptyline on the patient.co.uk website http://www.patient.co.uk/medicine/amitriptyline# I found this message..
.................."This leaflet has been archived. This is because amitriptyline is no longer recommended for the treatment of depression. There are other uses for amitriptyline (such as to help with sleep, or for nerve pain) but these are unlicensed uses.".......
........which begs the question....if it has not been licensed for nerve pain why has it been prescribed for neuropathic pain by the GP.....obviously a question to ask of the pharmacist or the GP on our next visit....
Also reading through the section on 'getting the most from your treatment ' I picked up on a number of points....one being about diabetes...and the other about sensitivity to sunlight (something to consider on our forthcoming holiday)....
....am thinking this would perhaps be the best one to cut down on first if we choose to do so as it would be easy to drop from 3 tablets per day to 2 and so on rather than the other one that comes in larger tablet size (2 x 100mg.....unfortunately we used to have 50mg tablets for this but GP altered prescription to larger size)....
Returning to the link you mentioned .....I guess the same rules apply to other types of antidepressant which potentially have withdrawal symptoms and that the general advice is to not stop them without your GPs advice and then to follow a sensible plan to reduce them.....am guessing that the GPs advice would be to carry on taking them .....
Will clearly have to give this some more thought....