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Starting Pristiq

Posted by conundrum on March 12, 2010, at 6:46:34

Before anyone says anything, yes I know its a copycat drug. But the samples were free, and since my GP doesn't prescribe very many ADs I'm sure she can keep me well stocked if it works.

I'm not sure my reasoning for starting it was the soundest. I basically had to admit that I have an obsessive personality which is different from OCD. For me it means that everything as far as meds has to be just right and that I can't trust a doctor to make the right choices. Its very hard for me to accept that you just trial drugs randomly until something works.

So I had been taking 1.25 mgs of prozac which wasn't helping as much as 2.5mg. However I was getting impatient and didn't want to wait 5 weeks for it to start to kick in and only help a little. Sometimes I think if I had given it more time it would have a more profound effect. Also I figured if I needed to augment prozac with a tricyclic or something, I'd probably have to have tried an SNRI first.

So I asked my doc what she would do and she said she would try something else, and since she takes effexor she recommends pristiq although I'm her pristiq guinea pig she told me. (yay?)

So I took the first one in the office. Man its a trip. I'm not gonna say the side effects for any hypochondriacs who might want to try it. They are bearable but I would recommend taking the first dose on a weekend if possible. Also take it early in the day.

Its the beginning of day 3 now and i feel ok no difference. AFter the first night I did feel this pleasantly aroused feeling, like some extra energy, but nothing significant. Its nice because it doesn't seem to cause headaches for me like lexapro and prozac. We'll see what it does in time.

 

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