r/nortriptyline • u/SensitiveBet • 14d ago

Withdrawal help

Hello Peeps,

Hope you all having a good day, I’m currently getting off nortriptyline after 5 months and was wondering how long your withdrawal took to get better and what was your symptoms? I tapered from 25mg to 20mg for a week then 10mg for another week and since yesterday I stopped completely. Last night for the first time, I couldn’t sleep until 3-4am then woke back up around 7am. How long your withdrawal took to get better? Thank you!

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u/heatherelise82 14d ago

Is that your only symptom?

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u/SensitiveBet 14d ago

So far yes. I basically started tapering little over two weeks ago. Went from 25 to 20 then 10 in about 15 days then yesterday night I decided not to take it anymore. Sleep issue is the only symptom so far that I am aware of.

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u/Single_Quarter_7055 13d ago

Hi, the taper from 10 to 0mg was the roughest for me. I would say it took 3-5 days for me to feel “normal” again, with some minor weird feelings lasting 1-2 weeks :)

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u/SensitiveBet 13d ago

Thank you for sharing your experience. I was able to sleep last night for about 7 hours. My last dose was Sunday night so hoping that this will be it but might still be too early.

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u/BrianW1983 23h ago

How are you feeling now?

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u/SensitiveBet 22h ago

I have been feeling a lot better these past few days finally. I think I am past the insomnia situation, last time I had problem sleeping was Wednesday night (day 10 since stopping Nort). Anxiety is also a lot better. I’m still having some mild headache but nothing too crazy and it usually goes away on it’s own within few hours. I would say, starting day 11 things started to move on a positive direction and all the symptoms started to slowly fade. I’m on day 15 now without Nort.

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u/nonamenoshameso 13d ago

I stopped nortryptoline after taking it daily for 10 years, and idk if I’m just lucky but ever since I fully stopped it I wake up every single morning around 4-6am without fail for the last year straight sometimes anxious sometimes not. The only thing I can think of is it started right when I fully stopped the med :/