My woman has been on 100mg daily since I've known her.. Along with 400mg wellbutrin.. We're pretty sure that the pristiq makes her jumpy and easily upset, but it has horrible withdrawl.
A couple of weeks ago or so she went down to 200mg wellbutrin without any noticeable effects .. maybe a slight drop in sex drive, which is okay, she is horny a little animal
So this week she runs out of pristiq.. we were going to pick it up, but overslept and that was friday. When she does not have that, the withdrawl makes her horrible to everyone around her, and being here would do more harm than good (not because of me) so I went out of town
But I read that pristiq is like effexor, very very similar, only it does not turn into as many byproducts? And that some people bridge off of it using prozac..
Usually she would have had night sweats (buckets, and buckets) and been just outright insane from withdrawl (you may have seen my long thread about last time when she went nuts and disappeared- it was because of missing her pristique)
This time she's been almost just fine. Some very very short and mild episodes of uncontrollable laughing, some dreams, but nothing not manageable.
I know she should not try to bridge off without gradually declining doses but I want her the fuck OFF the pristique.
Is it dangerous to allow her 10-20mg prozac for awhile to just get the fuck away from effexor? It has a 1 week half life, so, after the first few days I plan to give her a half of a prozac once a week for a month or two ..
She thinks that she may want to stay on prozac permanently now, though, not sure I like that. . .
I know a lot of you are good with this shit so I thought I would ask on here .. I appreciate those of you who have been helpful!!! A lot!!
Not sure at all how her thyroid figures into all of this .. but we've got more doctor appointments planned .. I have about ZERO faith in doctors right now .. her doc swears pristiq has no withdrawl, fucking BULL SHIT I went through the longest two weeks of my life dealing with her being in withdrawl and I have SEEN the sweat POURING off of her and the MANIA episodes she went through - If I had not found out on my own that prozac could help, we'd be mid nightmare from hell right now . . . If I had not arranged some for her, she would not even have had access to it .. etc ..
I mean fuck it I don't want to be one of these morons who thinks I can google my way through medical problems but if doctors are this dumb, I may need a new name tag, Dr. Fred at your service, bitches!!