Posted 1/14/2012 3:57 PM (GMT 0)
First of all I am on a dose of Prozac now to combat the withdrawal symptoms and have already seen it helping and it's only been about 24 hours since the first dose, about to take a second.
Okay just a warning, this post is probably going to be a bit overly personal with some disgusting things you may not want to know about me but I am posting anyway.
So I have always had a very strong stomach in reguards to the fact that I could see gross things and be rather fine. But lately, maybe in the past week that has all gone out the window.
I am thinking there could be several reasons behind this. Now, for one, I have always been OVERLY sensitive to very strong, foul odors, like they seriously make me gag like no one's business but in moderation I could tolorate them. Now, for some reason I have an over active sense of smell, like even the tiniest unplesant odor makes me almost gag, and I am noticing these odors everywhere, in things that I used to be fine with.
My first reasoning behind why all of this might be, is because right now I am under a lot of stress, and because of that I haven't been eating like I should, which in turn has really caused my IBS to flare up. I have been constipated (Slightly) For about a week and a half, I mean I do GO but not nearly as much as I know is in there. It has occured to me to take stool softners in order to get rid of this like I usually do but the effects of those are cramps, for me, which in turn makes my brain think I am nauseous. Now I can usually handle that, but with how weak my stomach has been lately and the fact that the smallest things can trigger a sense of nausea, I have been hesitant to do that.
Then I considered what my doctor one told me about zoloft, that it acts partially as an anti-emetic. As I had such a high dose in my system for so very long, is it possible that without it, my stomach is a lot weaker? Like that this is how my stomach really is? I just never noticed it because of the zoloft?
I considered that maybe it's anxiety related, or part of the withdrawal effects from going off zoloft, as one side effect is nausea but I am not nauseous all the time, I am just easily nauseated and the smallest things can now trigger it. I just need to know if oncemy body gets settled and through withdrawal if there's a a good possibility that things will return to normal?
As I started a topic on Emetophobia here, I am sure you can see why I am so concerned about this being a permanent thing. I took an anti-emetic about 20 or 30 minutes ago to help with nausea and ease my state of mind. I haven't vomited yet, I hope not to do it at all, and just thinking that it might be a possibility makes me slip into panic mode.
As much as I protest having to be on medication, the fact is, this is the one thing that could get me right back on it if someone could guarantee that it would return me to my normal state of iron stomach and incredible non-nausea. As it is now, I have started to revert back to my old emet ways, relying on safe foods and putting massive restrictions on what I do eat. I just hope someone here can tell me that this problem is a result of the combination of all the things I mentioned and will get to a point where it passes. If not, I am in trouble.