Posted by Lou Pilder on February 3, 2010, at 8:34:14
In reply to Symptom of Medication?, posted by Buckeye Fan on February 2, 2010, at 15:55:15
> Hi guys,
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> I am almost a month into my tapering of Pristiq.
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> I was switched from 7 years of Zoloft, because of a job last last August that sent me into severe depression, to Pristiq.
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> After gaining 35 pounds...High Blood pressure..being unemployed and it being the dead of Winter here;;;..I have tapered down to once-every-3-days of 50 mg's of pristiq ( smallest dose available).
> Things were going pretty well, but for the last few days the depression has returned along with other symptoms.
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> Itching, fatique, aches and pains, trouble sleeping, anxiety and a "restless" feeling I have never experienced before.
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> I cannot really explain this new symptom with words.
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> It is a feeling of...emptiness..or embarrasment..I dont feel like being around anyone...YET the isolation and loneliness is equally agonizing.
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> Its like an inner nervousness,,,,uncomfortable feeling....like something is just not quite right.
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> Any ideas? I know I am not being very descriptive
> but I am really puzzeled by this emotion,..or feeling...or symptom, or what ever it is!
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> Any help would be appreciated
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> BF
>
BF,
You wrote,[...any ideas?..Any help will be...]
When I read your post above, I see the classic symptoms that manifest themselves in the innitial period of the withdrawal from benzodiazepines, so that could be your situation.
This could be a very difficult time until the "trouble sleeping" and "inner nervousness" part of the withdrawal, if that is what it is, stops. This is a time when those experiancing BZD withdrawal think about suicide because they think that that is the state that they will be in forever, which may not be the case.
If you are interested in that what you are experiancing now could be classic BZD withdrawal, you could bring up lectures about such on youtube by keying in Dr. Heather Ashton and then on the side of her videos are other people, particularly Gwenn, an ex pharm salseperson, telling about their withdrawal from BZDs.
Lou
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