Abrupt discontinuation due to vision issues
I have only been on auvelity for 40 days. I only take one pill a day in the morning. I tried the recommended dosing, take two pills twice a day. I had to go back to 1 a day. I felt like I was drunk on two and it caused a lot of physical symptoms. I’ve had other medical things going on (er visit and then surgery), thought maybe the pain meds were mixing with auvelity and causing vision issues. However, the issues are still occurring and I’m 3 weeks post op. I noticed that my vision would go out of focus while reading, even with my glasses on. Then while driving my vision would get fuzzy. I just recently started getting headaches with my squinting and straining. I just had my glasses prescription updated months before I started the auvelity. I also will occasionally get a glowing type aura around certain objects, I thought that was my astigmatism but i have seen it with my glasses on.
I mentioned it to my prescriber at my 3 week appointment and then again this week. She advised me to stop taking it and see if my vision improved. In the meantime I’ve reached out my ophthalmologist to see if I need to be evaluated based on my symptoms and the correlation with Auvelity and its warning about glaucoma. I’m not seeing my psych provider until a week from today and am not looking forward to the physical and emotional withdrawal symptoms, I feel are imminent with a cold turkey stop. I hate that this is happening because it did help my mood improve but I don’t want to go blind. I’m very sensitive to psych meds. I tell every provider that but no one seems to acknowledge it.
Has anyone had any luck transitioning to another medication with similar attributes? I have tried almost all of the typical and atypical anti depressants. Just curious if anyone else had a similar reaction or transitioned to something else with success.