My experience with stopping Pristiq
edit: been a complete week without it, SLIGHT dizziness if i get up too fast or turn my head to quick, headaches ceased, from 1-10 from awful to being normal i would say im at a 9.2!
I’ve read a lot of posts about people getting off of pristiq and wanted to share mine incase it helps anyone else, since it helped me!
I was 50mg for half a year, then 100mg for a year and half. It helped a lot with my anxiety BUT I had no motivation at all.. barely… I want to switch to wellbutrin so planned to stop pristiq (Doctor didn’t recc taking them together)
I started cold turkey stopping with 100mg and yeah.. don’t be delusional. I got really sick, headaches, vertigo and nausea then just automatically went back on the 100mg.
Switched to lower dose of 50mg, and honestly switching from 100>50 wasn’t that bad I really didn’t notice any changes. I was planning to take 50mg for a week then take it every other day etcetc but I had skipped a day and didn’t feel the symptoms I had stopping 100mg, so then I was like might as well! First two days were bad but not as bad as my first attempt, just headaches and vertigo, slept more of those days (it was the weekend) and now it’s been a week since I stopped taking it and almost back to normal! Just slight vertigo with sharp turns and movements but overall, your experience depends on you! So, to whoever is stopping it can be realllly bad but can be tolerable too!