The Surfing Club (disscussion about waves)

The phenomenon of waves intrigues me.

Wave talk here only folks.

How long do your waves last?

What is the difference between feeling symptoms and a wave?

How do you cope during a wave?

What is the worst thing about your waves?

Etc etc.

OK, I need to kick this thread off.

I have always been symptomatic in my taper and earlier in my taper and at about 5 months into it up until probably month 20 I had a LOT of pretty serious symptoms happening.

However, I got slammed at 7.5 months into the taper by ACUTE symptoms, I am talking MAJOR panic attacks, sheer TERROR and waking up every day with a jolt and the feeling of electricity surging through my body, even the sound of my bed sheets rustling was loud.

That is what I call a wave... and it is like being shoved into HELL.

I have also had this happen another time, I woke one day and I had very severe inner vibrations in my legs (not mild) and I had arm tics and even one on my face by my eye, I felt like the leg buzzing was about to spread to my whole body and arms, it was a really freaky feeling and I just knew I had to make a dose correction.

On BOTH of these occasions I had to make small up-doses to get the symptoms under control but the worst thing for me in these acute stages are the feelings on impending doom, it's like a complete feeling of utter dread and it is NOT just "anxiety", it is absolute sheer terror.

I am wondering if these things are normal in waves or whether what I was having was excessively bad?

I don't know how people can go for long periods with those kind of symptoms, I was about to keel over and die at one point, to me this is how I imagine going CT to be like at first.

Can anyone else describe their waves? I am not talking head pressure or feeling some mild inner vibrations here, I am talking about the other worldly anxiety that is almost inhumane and severe symptoms that are quite rampant.