Pristiq hell

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i have had mood disorders/depression issue/ severe anxiety/sleep issues...all that great stuff... my whole life but it finally came to a head when i had a couple of really severe panic attacks out of no where.  i had blood work done to rule out physical health and i finally went to see a therapist and then a psychiatric nurse. the out come i have general anxiety disorder, depression and bi polar one disorder or so i am told.  i was prescribed pristiq and lamictal low low doses....50 mg pristiq 25 mg lamictal which of course i will keep upping and upping and upping until what my brain is totally fried and i am a hollow shell of myself????

the problem is i can't live like i was before and i can't live like i am right now.  i have been on this medicine for 4 days, that's it.  the first day was good it felt like a new beginning.

the second day...not so much.   my jaw is clenched shut, i cannot sit still i MUST be constantly doing something.. . . which is fine while i am at work . . . i landscape i wake up at 6 in the morning and dont get home till 6 pm...but once i am home and i cant stop and i clean my whole room, organize my closet, smoke a hundred cigarettes and sit on my computer reading how absolutely horrid all of these drugs are....i find myself completely strung out.

i am like 10 steps behind my own self.  i am doing things without even realize i am doing them...i feel like a robot machine.  

i feel like i am going a million miles an hour.

my vision is all messed up.

i am having like 20 minute yawning attacks but am not tired at all.  

i am not taking this **** tomorrow.

has this happened to anyone else??

i am a lab rat........

after much research i found out that this stupid drug is like just another ploy for some fat ******* to make more money.

the more i read about people horror stories...oh god

i can't get myself in this anti-depression, anxiety, manic, sleeping problem pill regime cycle...

i will just deal with the panic attacks ... F THIS

i feel so fried.

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I too felt like a very organized robot, not so much "manic" but super organized. I've dreamed of my own decorating business for decades, and in 4 months I started my business, whic opens in October. I would walk into my office like I just completed another assembly line product piece, st it down and move on. No anxiety, no random thoughts and totally isolated. I did not go to the pool or BBQ 1x this past summer. Isolated myself. That is why I chose to go off it. I have been going off Lisinopril (7 weeks ago) cold turkey, via Dumb PA, and 12 days off Pristiq, 6 days of weaning (1 on/1off) and 5 days totally free. My Dr. also put me of 5mg of Bystolic to help with heart racing and panic due to w/d. The side effects of going off are what has been posted, although survivable. I miss the super methodic ways, however, a drugged out zombie is what I had become. My side effects ON the meds were horrific, but it was lk. I didn't want to stop b/c I was afraid of w/d and my business plans collapsing before they even started. It is extremely Mood Altering, Personality changing and health destroying medication. My hair came out by the millions a day, my skin very dry and scaly and I aged 10 years in 1, but I am regaining myself back:) whever she was is now different.

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i seriously think that they prescribed my legal meth