Abracadabra: Getting off Pristiq

[Abracadabra]

Hi!  I discovered this site several months ago when I was trying to figure out why I was feeling crazy, having so many headaches, heart palpitations, restless leg feelings (but like in my whole body?) endless sweating despite being cold, all kinds of things. I was reading someone's post and they had mild serotonin syndrome and I believe I did also. I spoke with my doctor who said "oh sure, just go down to 50mg." After reading in here I thought that was a bad plan, but tried it, and the following day felt like maybe I was going to die, so I wrote myself out a plan based on information I gathered here, and took it to my doctor. 
 

I have the best doctor because when I've researched something and  tell him what I want to do, he supports me. I'm much better about that now than I was in my 20s, and I wish I had done more research and never gotten on this medication. 
 

I am feeling so much better on the 50mg, but I want to see who I am not on medication. I have a lot of anxiety also, about what if I can't get it for some reason? I stop being a functioning human, and I am the only parent to beautiful 11 year old daughter and the only trusted adult to a 17 year old foster son. I have to function! 
 

I was just getting on here to read, but I thought I would post and maybe it would help. I am so irritable. It just started about a week ago, is there anything I can do to help this? Everything annoys me and I can't even stand to be in my own body right now. 
 

I take several types of magnesium, fish oil, iron, a number of other supplements because I don't absorb nutrition the best. I go to the gym at least 4 times a week and work on drinking water, but I'm the worst at that. I eat fairly well for the most part.
 

Someone said something about coffee making things worse, but I couldn't find anything else about that. I love coffee / is it making me irritated AF?
 

thanks for reading 😂🫶🏻 

Edited August 17, 2023 by Karma
Name update

[Altostrata]

Welcome, @Abracadabra

 

Good to hear you find your doctor supportive. As I understand it, you'd like to go off Pristiq.

 

On 8/10/2023 at 6:29 PM, Abracadabra said:

I was feeling crazy, having so many headaches, heart palpitations, restless leg feelings (but like in my whole body?) endless sweating despite being cold, all kinds of things

 

Looking at your drug history, it looks like you were taking too much Pristiq, meaning more than 50mg, for a long time -- May 2021-June 2023. Did you have these symptoms all that time?

 

FYI here are Tips for tapering off desvenlafaxine (Pristiq)