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I Am Nancy And Have Been On Escitalopram 20mg For

I am Nancy and have been on Escitalopram 20mg for over 9 years. I was diagnosed with Conversion Disorder - Anxiety by my Neurologist. The Conversion Disorder took the anxiety/stress and resulted in Seizures. Finally on 2011 an EEG Visual Monitoring confirmed that my seizures are PNES (Psychogenic Non Epileptic Seizures) and the Neurologist send me to a Psyquiatrist and Individual Psichotherapist. The former switched from Escitalopram into generic prozac last friday. for the last twodays I have been coming out of Escitalopram 20 down to 10 mg (withdrawal feeling miserable) tomorrow will start on Prozac 10mg one a day in the mornings. Other medicines are Clonazepam .50mg at night, Gabapentin twice daily 300mg, Keppra 500 mg twice daily, metropolol succinate 50mg twice daily, Losartan 50mg at night, equilis 2.5 mg twice, Hemocyte Plus w/iron one daily and synthroid .1 mg in the morning. Psyquiatrist would like to try Prozac and help me get rid of Conversion Disorder and resulting pseizures? Nancy Regalado 74 yrs. Miami, Fl
posted on Fri, 20 Nov 2015
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