5 Years Off Cipralex and Still Counting...

 Hi Guys

I know I haven't posted in a while.. lol ....5 years actually,

just wanted to update you that it been 5 years now that i'm off cipralex and all is super!

had no attacks for years now....

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Thumbs up for Tommy Franklin

Hello my friends, no more apologies for the delay in writing… life is keeping me very very busy…

I Wanted to share this with you, in some way it helped me and I’m sure it will help you too…

This guy called Tommy Franklin AKA Salty rain, you just have to check out his story and videos, go ahead and search youtube for Tommy Franklin and start watching.

 

 

 

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One Year Later...

One Year Later...

Hello everybody, I can barely find time to write to you guys, been busy with setting up a new house and raising a 6 month baby :)

all is well, had some good days and some bad ones, but i'm still off the pill...

that's one year and six month without cipralex...

it been just few times i felt like i need it, but didn't took it, trying to deal with life in other ways...

I'll be posting more soon,

how are you guys?

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One Day Baby we’ll be Old...

You guys probably wana kill me by now… lol… but I’m building a house, and expecting a baby(it’s a girl) in couple of week, trying to take care of the mortgage , work ,family and… phew…there’s a lot of things to take care of…. I’ve been so busy I’ve forgot I ever took cipralex…  and that’s something… isn’t it?

Just wanted you all to know the I’m doing fine, no Panic attacks, no anxiety or anything like that… just living the life….

Now, I know you guys asked me some questions and I promise to answer them all…very soon… Love ya! Stay strong! and check this one out...

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So, where were we?

It’s been a while now since I’m off the pills… to be accurate it been exactly five months…

It took most of my energy to stay focused and pass this transition time until today…

During this time there were ups and downs… even couple of times I thought I needed an anger management program J lol…

But as the time passes I seem everything is stabilizing and slowly I and my brain or body gets used to the new situation…

I want to apology for “disappearing” on you guys for a while but I also sure you understand how it’s like when you can’t even bring yourself to stay focus and post something…

I want to address some of your comments and feedbacks in this post…and once again thank you all for sticking around…

So, where were we?

Right,

I’m 5 months off the pills now.

As you already know I’m married…

And my wife is pregnant (week 12)…

And I’m buying a house… so I had to take mortgage and loans to make that happened.

You can imagine that buying a house, take loans, quitting the pills and having a baby all at the same time is…time consuming and also brain power consuming… J

So that’s what I’ve been up to…

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It’s been a Long Way Back Home

February in coming now… I’ve been off the pills since November 1st , that means I’m off it for about three months. Three months and counting… Haven't had a lot of time to write to you guys, sorry about that.

I think I finally reached a point where I dont need it any more... at least for the time being. Still got some pills packages left...i'm going to throw them away in couple of days... Apparently the best place to stop taking cipralex is thailand... lol... I've had some rough weeks, getting really angry and arguing with people for nothing reasonable by I kept it together... always reminding me that this will happend...at least until the full effect of the pill will go away... I know its short but I will write again, and I got all of your questions to answer. just wanted to quick update you. take care. all is good now.

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Day 734: Back from a Long Vacation...

Hello again, have you missed me? I sure did miss you guys. I couldn’t update my blog for a while… been away on a very long and great trip to Asia(mostly Thailand)…

I’ll be writing more about the trip and what I’ve been up to lately in next posts… Stay tuned. And give us a smile will ya? BTW: ITS DAY 734 ON CIPRALEX (10MG)

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Till Death Do Us Part

Hello my friends, I hope all is well with you, I was very busy with the wedding and everything so I haven’t had a spare time to update you with anything…sorry… The wedding ceremony is behind us now… wow, I cant believe I’m done with that…went very good actually, all the focus was on me and my girl… you can imagine… but it went ok, and I’ve dealt with it…

so I’m amazed once again… and I’m starting to forget why I’m taking the pills anyways… We’re flying to Spain next week for a quick honey moon… and maybe afterwards to Thailand… Now I have a lot of comments to read… I’m still on 10 mg… but thinking about going down to 5…

Take care now

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Sorry for the delay folks…

Hello my friends, first of all I’m truly sorry for the delay, I was busy up to my neck in all the wedding arrangements, work and my personal to do list… I’ve also got some bad news… seems like we’ve lost the baby after couple of weeks…the doctors say it’s a natural abortion and that sometimes it happens for unknown reasons…
so we will try again soon enough, but that meant that besides work, life and the wedding I also had to deal with this…which was not that pleasant but I must say I kept my coolness and focus and we’ve passed it ok. I think my fiancé was really proud of the way I handled it.

The wedding is approaching, mean while I don’t feel too nervous about it, at least nothing I cant handle, I still take the 10 mg cipralex and over all things are good. However a thought came to my mind to increase the dosage to 15 or 20 just for the wedding day, it’s still a lot of pressure,

but I’m not sure about that, would love to hear what you guys think. Wow, I need to read a lot of comments now… :)

Take care will post more soon.

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We're Not Alone...

Cipralex users around the world...

amazing isn't it... we can make our country soon lol. take care.

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I am I am

This one always makes me smile... enjoy

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Somebody That I Used to Know...

I think that sometimes music can express feelings more than everything...:) this song was played over and over and over again in italy... i mean everywhere... i learned to like it...

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Day 558: Honey...I'm late...

Hello my friends, you’re all probably wondering what I’ve been up to…

So here’s a quick update:

As you already know I’ve reduced the dosage to 10mg from 20mg and besides one event in which I was a bit stressed out everything else went smooth.

I’ve just came back from Italy, as you know I was a bit worried about take cipralex pills with me to the airport, I know it was silly – really it was, anyways I can now tell you that you can take any medication pills you need onboard without any problem(just keep it in its original package) the trip was awesome, I interacted with a lot of new people I didn’t knew and felt good and powerful enough to deal with any surprising situations that popped up, and there were some( we got stuck with the car on a mountain and the car almost flipped over…lol everything is ok, and the cool thing was that I was so cool about it….)

I drank a lot of wine in Italy – what can you do besides that? lol , and I had no problems or side effects with cipralex – maybe it’s because it was a very good wine…

Besides that I’m into writing children books now… I don’t know why… haven’t done anything about it yet…but it’s very interesting market…

Almost forgot my fiancé told me she’s late…if you know what I mean… we need to do some tests I guess but it seems like we’re going to have a baby…

Me – a daddy? You got to be kidding me…life’s amazing sometimes….this is probably one of scariest things ever…but I’m cool with that…

I’ll update you more on that as soon as I’ll know more… btw the doc said cipralex have no effects on the pregnancy or the baby…

i'm going to answer all your comments and questions in the next post.

take care now
love you all

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Lazy Song for Lazy Day

Hello my friends, just came back from a long good vacation, I will soon post and address all your questions and comments, meanwhile, enjoy this: Cheers, wow 24 comments on last post :) thumbs up for ya all.

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This week on “My Life with Cipralex”

Hello again, It been couple of days now that I’m trying to get myself to post something…

Finally, here it is:

As I’ve posted before, I’ve decreased the cipralex dosage from 20 mg to 10 mg that happened 29 days ago…

Since I’ve decreased the dosage, I’ve had one anger attack (I’m not sure what it was, maybe it was just arguing or yelling…don’t know but I haven’t started it, anyway…)

I became very tired and sleepy…or at least I think I sleep a lot…

My sex drive went really down and then really up…

Had some annoying thoughts but nothing too serious…

And I find it a bit harder to focus.

But, now 29 days after, I feel good, maybe it was all part of the “migration” process…

Anyways I’m not too worried about that.

Had a meeting with the doc couple of days ago, he said to continue taking the 10 mg, and I’ve talked with him about sex drive issue, he said to try skipping a pill in a day I’m planning to have sex… lol I always plan on doing that…

The wedding is approaching, I try not to think about that too much and not complicate it.

Soon I’ll be in Italy, on vacation for two weeks…I’ll update you soon about that too, also I’ve read all your comments and will address them all in the next post.

Keep fighting!

Love you all, and talk to you soon.

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Remember to...Wear Sunscreen

This one is with lots of love from emma ;)


old but nice and true

:), if you guys got more spiritual clips I would love to see em.

enjoy. and emma - thanks

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Dear Sarah – I’m here for you

Dear Sarah,

I’m sorry for the late response, but better late than never right?  I want you to know that I read all your comments even If I don’t always reply right away, so rest assure I’m not going anywhere I’m always here for you.

I know your comments, questions and the things you share here are helping me and many others, so keep on doing that.

From what you wrote I understood that you are already took the step to make you life better, which if you ask me is the biggest most important step, to bring yourself to a point that you actually do something about it – and you’ve already done that, and that’s impressive and brave, remember that.

I understood that you’re already three months with 10 MG cipralex, lots of good changes are coming your way…I actually miss that feeling that things are about to change…you’ll probably feel that soon enough.

I’m happy to read you already feeling improvements in some aspects of your phobias and focus problems, give it some more time…it will get better…I think only after six months you actually feel the full effect of it and it’s enough time to prepare yourself to manage without it too.

I’m going to address your question about the heart in a separate full post but I am going to say that: from what I’ve understood and I’m no doctor, but cipralex can effect different people in different ways, so to answer your question, it’s very individual, and if there are cases of heart problems in your family your doctor is doing the right thing and taking it slowly with you, i wouldn’t worry about that too much, first of all there are many people that are happy with 10 mg and secondly there are many other pills you can take instead that work in different ways that got nothing to do with your heart… by the way you have a good sweet heart, I can tell.

So what I suggest is that you don’t think about that now at all… it’s a waste of time, you might not need to increase to 20 mg anyways, look at me, and I’m decreasing to 10 mg now, so we are taking the same amount. I’m really very sorry about your parent…  but what’s in the past is in the past. – remember that too.

Sarah I also want to thank you – for reminding me exactly what I needed to remember.

And I will post more often… J

Take care and keep writing to us too – I read it all…

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Day 495, Minus 10 MG, Getting Married and Flying to Italy

Dear Friends,

I hope all is well with you or at least keeps on getting better, I know it’s been a while since my last post, so I’m going to address many issues in this one.

Its day 495 with cipralex, I’ve recently decreased the amount from 20 MG to 10 MG, I’m going to try this for a week or so and see how it effects me before I’ll make more decision about that.

So far the only different I felt is related to my sex drive which jumped up the minute I’ve decreased the dosage.

So, what I’ve been up to?

Trip to Italy:

I’ll soon be traveling to Italy for couple of weeks, the one thing that bothers me about that is that I need to take the cipralex pills with me, the trip is with a lot friends, but none of them know about me taking cipralex, and I prefer none of them will.

So I’m a bit concerned about taking the pills onboard the airplane, what if they will be examined? Or what if they will start asking me questions about it? I’m probably worrying too much about that, but if you got some insight about that I’ll be happy to hear it. I know that there are probably millions of medications people are taking abroad from country to country with them, maybe I’m just exaggerating with this… but I’ll try to get some information about that and I’ll update you on that too. Besides that it’s also important to notice that I don’t feel nervous or worried at all, I had no panic attack or anxiety attacks for many days…any ways nothing that is related to this planned trip, it’s something too, because usually when there’s something social planned ahead I would think and worry about it too much, seems like I don’t worry about things until they actually happen and then it’s too late to worry anyways.

Don’t know if I mentioned this to you guys but I’m getting married soon, the wedding is set on july, me getting married, can you comprehend that? I couldn’t even get out of the house to the supermarket , I couldn’t even talk to strangers, even a dinner I was invited by friends or family used to be a nightmare filled with anxiety and fear… and now I’m getting married… how the heck did that happen? I bet it got something to do with cipralex….

A wedding event is stressful enough as it is… but to be depressed, with anxiety and panic attack and get married is almost impossible.

But now I’m getting married, I’m amazed at myself that I managed to get to that point in my life, and to be honest I don’t think I’d get there without the help of cipralex.

I honestly don’t worry about the actual event; my new way of looking at it is that it’s my party anyways so why should I worry? I should just have fun. I know you know what I’m talking about, getting married, with all this buying clothes, and rings, and renting a place for the event, and designer and dj’s and food and drinks and talking to so many suppliers and….you know what I mean, there’s no way I could deal with all that 495 days ago… just no way at all. I rather be dead than to deal with all of that…. Not to mention the actual ceremony.

Lately my rented apartment is always filled with friends and friends of friends, most of them I know through my soon to be wife girlfriend… I love it and It doesn’t move me at all that people I don’t know jump to visit.

I have much more to tell you friends, but not much time right now, but I do want to answer your questions and comments, I’ll do that on a separate post.

Thank you all and have wonderful life.

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Like Humans Do...

This song used to help me a lot in the first days with cipralex...dunno why...lol, it just Helps for relaxation :)



Enjoy.

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