What is vilazodone, and why is stopping it harder than starting it? Vilazodone, sold as Viibryd, is an antidepressant approved in the United States for major depressive disorder in adults.…
Is it hard to stop taking nortriptyline or amitriptyline? Nortriptyline and amitriptyline are tricyclic antidepressants, a class of drugs that was in wide use decades before Prozac existed. Their labels…
Why is it so hard to stop taking pregabalin? Pregabalin, sold as Lyrica, is a gabapentinoid, a close relative of gabapentin, and its United States prescribing information groups it with…
Why would anyone want to taper off of mirtazapine? Mirtazapine, sold under the brand name Remeron, is an antidepressant with a tetracyclic chemical structure. In the United States, its label…
You finally had a good stretch. The walks got longer, you got back on the bike, and for an afternoon it felt like your old life. Then you woke up…
You have read that switching from Xanax to Valium can make a benzodiazepine taper smoother, and you want to know whether it is true and how the switch actually works.…
You want to taper off Xanax without your life falling apart while you do it. That is the real question behind your search, and it deserves a real answer. Maybe…
The anxiety arrives mid-taper, or weeks after the last dose, bringing a question that shakes people more than the symptom itself. Is this withdrawal, or is my old anxiety back?…
The tests came back normal. The colonoscopy was clean, the bloodwork unremarkable, and the specialist gave your misery a name: irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). It should have felt like an…
The estimates you found online promised your stomach would settle in a few weeks. Your gut has outlasted every one of them, and a harder question has started forming: what…