Administrator Altostrata Posted March 12, 2014 Administrator Share Posted March 12, 2014 Wishing you the best, EG. Please let us know how you're doing. This is not medical advice. Discuss any decisions about your medical care with a knowledgeable medical practitioner. "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has surpassed our humanity." -- Albert Einstein All postings © copyrighted. Link to comment
Eleriangirl Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 Just an update: We found out Tuesday that the pregnancy was not viable and I was sent home to miscarry. I agree my body is not in the best shape for pregnancy right now, so I'm handling that as well as can be expected I suppose. On Wednesday (6 days after cutting Xanax in half from 1mg/day to .5mg/day) I had a major seizure and my hubby called the ambulance. They did a CT of my head and eventually let me go home and asked me to follow up with my neurologist. My neurologist put me back up to .75mg of Xanax for now hoping that it would be enough to prevent further seizures while waiting to go in for an EEG.What a freakin' roller coaster! I can't help but feel like I'm being held captive by these drugs. The neurologist wants me to significantly slow down my taper and see how it goes. I can't believe that such a LOW dose has such a hold on me! On a side note, I'm also seeing a specialist in the area who treats cancer patients from all over. She's run all of my labs and compared them with labs over the last year. Apparently my kidneys and my liver are not functioning as they should, so my body is "holding on" to things that it should be getting rid of. I'm not sure how else to explain it as the last week has been a blur. Now we are trying to come up with the funds in order to get the proper treatment and diet to get my body back to working how it should. Anyhow, just wanted to post an update. I'm "OK", just very stressed about the fact that I won't be able to function normally until I get these drugs out of my body, and getting them out of my body is proving to be difficult. I thought the Pristiq and Prozac were hard, but goodness this is a whole different ball game. I still can't talk clearly as I bit my tongue on both sides during the seizure and it is still swollen with open wounds. I'm fortunate my husband works the night shift and is able to drive me around now as they've told me I can't drive for at least 6 weeks! Jan - Zoloft 50mg (no titrating, cold turkey, severe allergic reaction) Feb - Vybriid 10mg (Only lasted 3 days on this stuff) Mar - Amitriptyline 10mg (Landed me in the ER with some serious Tachycardia, stopped at two weeks) Apr-June - Pristiq 50mg (9 weeks) June 10 - Started Prozac 10mg June 16 - Last dose of Pristiq 50mg with no taper June 26 - Prozac increased to 20mg to help with discontinuation with a plan to taper down once stabilized. July 1 - Pdoc concluded that while the discontinuation is unpleasant, it will not last forever and there was no need to change the dose of Prozac back down to 10mg. She confirmed that this reaction is not common, but is definitely a result of the Pristiq discontinuation and not a return of depression. (Guess that's good news!) July 4 - Back up to 1mg Xanax per day at .25mg every 6 hours July 8 - Drop to Prozac 5mg My Introduction Link to comment
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