Pristiq withdrawal help
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Hello. Pristiq is essentially effexor that has been altered on a molecular level. So I would assume that the withdrawal would be similar. I would get back on it ASAP, and if you want to quit taking it, do so very gradually under a doctors advice.
It took me 10 months, with a doctors help, and I did not have any withdrawals. Effexor withdrawal has been discussed a lot on this site, and you may want to look up old posts, as people experience different things when withdrawing, but on the whole, many do it too fast.
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You do not say whether you are withdrawing from the Effexor yet.
But I think this drug is more like an ssri than an snri, which is what effexor and pristiq are. Keep in mind effexor and pristiq are almost identical drugs, with pristiq just eliminating some of the molecules in order hopefully to reduce side effects but mostly to get new patent protection. It's like Celexa and Lexapro. This class of drugs is stimulating as it targets norepinephrine as well as serotonin, and is usually not used for primary anxiety as a result.
I don't know if what you are feeling is from suddenly stopping the pritiq or not, but I find it difficult to believe that your psychiatrist does not have someone on call or an answering service where you could leave a message for him to call you ASAP.
It may also be possible that with the symptoms you're describing, head hurts, sore neck, ears and throat, that you may just be coming down with a cold and your anxiety is getting the better of you.
Just hot my thyroid levels at a good level. I switched from pristiq to cymbalta back in November. I am tired ALL the time. More than when my thyroid was out of whack. Could the cymbalta be causing this and if so, what if I took it at night?
re most likely suffering from withdrawal from abruptly stopping the Pristiq. What you can do is go back on it at the last dose at which you felt okay and taper off more slowly under the care of your psychiatrist. If your psychiatrist doesn't recognize or care about withdrawal, get another. If you find you need the med, which it sounds like you're finding you don't, but if you do, you might try Effexor.
No doctor here, that's on the mental health forum, but there's no equivalency between medications really, you never know how they're going to affect you or if they're going to work at all. Equivalencies are generalizations, and you are an individual. Besides, Pristiq is a different class of drug than Lexapro. Lexapro is an ssri while Pristiq is an snri.
on Monday,Sept 5th had an appoitment with Psychiatrist, and after i explained her my symptons,( i also cried,was overwhelmed) she said I had a severe depression, so she also prescribed me Pristiq 50mg one tablet per day in the morning after breakfast. I never took the Pristiq i am scared of the side effects,So all this time since September 3rd until ,now October 13th, I've been only on Clonazepan,I am scared of becoming an addict as I have read these pills tend to be addictive.
Please do not try and withdrawal from the Klonopin on your own. You must work with your doctor or a PMM to work out a taper schedule that will make the transition safe and comfortable.
It could be either one of them. Yes, it could be withdrawal and may go away soon. Or, it could be that you need the meds.
It's really hard to say how long withdrawal will last. We're all so different and some of us have almost no withdrawal symptoms after tapering and go on to feel just fine with no depression.
It's up to you of course if you want to start back on your meds. I understand what a hard choice it can be.
re feeling but proceed with caution because Klonopin daily with Wellbutrin over long periods, will make the benzo withdrawal much harder / dangerous while on Wellbutrin.
Effexor makes it even worse. So the doctor changed me to Pristiq and said side effects will not be as bad as with Effexor. After taking it for 1 month I kept eating and gaining weight. And my menstrual cycle went crazy (one and a half months thinking I started an early menopause!). So I panicked and stopped Pristiq, but next day felt the horrible withdrawal effects (dizziness and nausea that kept me in bed). Next day I started taking 80 mg Prozac and withdrawal effects diminished.
Pristiq is Effexor, just the new and improved model. So while it is a different med, it's also very similar to what you were taking, albeit much more expensive since it's not off patent. But that being said, the same thing was done to Celexa in creating Lexipro, and people report very different experiences on the two meds, so Julie is probably right, you're probably suffering some kind of withdrawal or side effect.
About early december 2009, I decided to try Pristiq for my anxiety since I had already taken effexor for 2 years few years ago and it supposed to be very similar. I took pristiq for almost 3 weeks and quicly stopped it due to a major panic episode one night where all of a sudden i had extreme anxiety and racing thoughts. Due to this episode my doctor told me that it didn;t feel that I was a right candidate for this medicine anyways and gave me xanaz for whenever needed.
I started taking 50mg of Pristiq about a year ago because I was feeling extremely depressed and angry at the same time. It really did help me with both issues but at the same time, I felt so relaxed and layed back that I wasn't dealing with things the way they should have been dealt with. I felt like I became a very passive person and anyone who knows me knows I don't allow people to walk all over me. But on this medicine, it was like I just didn't care.
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