Happy Taco Tuesday 🌮
Shaved, showered, washed my hair, started getting ready for in-office day but forgot I didn’t book a desk. Login and notice none of my team have booked desks. Login to Teams to find messages that none of my team are going in today. Proceed to not put on pants. Today’s alright so far.
SNRI withdrawal is fucked up. My heart feels like it’s jumping in my throat and ticking erratically and my body feels tingly and wrong af.
Don’t accidentally (or intentionally) cold-turkey antidepressants; No Bueno!
- a PSA from your local forgetful potato
You have my commiserations, I was okay when I went off escitalopram, fluoxetine and sertraline but desvenlafaxine (Pristiq) was FUCKED - there was no tapering available and I have never felt so out of control of my body. I swear it felt like I was a robot undergoing a botched factory reset
Wait wot? I’m on Pristiq and I didn’t know there wasn’t an option to taper 😭 I was literally going to talk to my doc about coming off them so therapy is a bit more effective (i believe it is masking my emotions and feelings, makes them easier to ignore, but harder to identify and deal with effectively).
If there’s no taper available, I think I should do it soon, before I start study or work again if that’s the case. I’m on the 100mg dose too, good lord.
You described it well! I describe it to my partner as being full of electricity, I get all tingly, slow to react, brain fog and zaps. Weird aches and shooting pains. And this heart thing that happens. Good grief!! Thank you for this! I had no idea!
Oh I should’ve clarified I meant tapering from the lowest dose tablet. Basically you can’t cut Pristiq tablets in half as it’ll disable the extended release mechanism, which means the half-tablet will now enter your bloodstream more rapidly than intended which has its own side effects.
So you don’t need to go from 100 to 0 in one hit, but it’s still 100 -> 50 -> 0 with no in between. The 50 -> 0 is a fuck so I strongly recommend doing it before you have other commitments. I did it in the middle of a major work fuckup and IT WAS REALLY NOT GOOD, I mean bursting into tears spontaneously and shaking and brain zaps every few minutes and feeling like arse squared. In hindsight I should’ve taken medical leave
Good luck - I know exactly what you mean about the masking, anti depressants certainly are useful for some stability but they really can be difficult to work with in addressing the deeper stuff for real. I’m on adhd meds now and they have been much better for me, but the burnout when they wear off in the morning is rough and I still distinctly feel like I’m on something rather than being myself, and I don’t know if I want to be like this forever…
Phew thats a relief, not so awful as my initial assumption! I know not to halve the tablets but I didnt know why, so yeah I’ll defo get my doc involved.
Pwoah! That time at work must have sucked major balls, holy shit. I don’t think I would have survived. Your willpower is amazing!
I don’t want to be on meds for the rest of my life, if I can help it. I’ll try and get it out of the way before I do anything else for sure. I wasnt great this weekend, I won’t be great coming off haha. I appreciate you taking the time to help me with this, you’ve given me confidence and reassurance. Thank you! 💜
You got this! I had to stick it out at work because of my visa situation, it was a matter of survival. It did break something in me though (I chalk that up to being socially isolated and having an unsupportive work environment, not necessarily the meds themselves). Knowing what I do now I’d be more careful around commitments when tapering off psych meds.
When coming off Pristiq my GP had me do 2 days cold turkey before getting onto Prozac (fluoxetine) to tide me over until I could see a psychiatrist. So at least it wasn’t days and days of agony.
Oh you poor thing. Yeah I have enough trouble when I miss an SSRI. Be gentle with yourself
Thank you for this, I’m trying. Cried a lot, laughed too which turned into more crying lol.
Brains, man, so complex
I think it went ok. The general manager was really nice, but we’ll see how it plays out.
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Rightio! Haircut complete. Time for a quick Nanna nap then off to the interview at 3:30pm.
Got another one tomorrow morning which is also cool, so we’ll see.
Wishing you an awesome interview! Sending good vibes! You got this!
Thank you!
One trio of totally overloaded soft tacos
opening up the windows finally, gotta be honest the place smells a bit after 3 people 4 pets inside for basically 3 days.
The delightful scent of vaporising cat tray…
Aircon at the office isn’t working. After three days in a rental with no aircon, I want to fucking die.
ROUGH! Can you open windows?
That would be nice.
I know I’ll be bitching about it in a few weeks but right now that fresh cold air coming through the window is like manna from heaven after still feeling that residual overheated feeling today. Now this is good sleeping weather. Not to mention the soft drizzle. 😊 Wash away all that hot grime and dust please!
I feel so productive I’m unintentionally making up for the long weekend of absolutely nothing
I can definitely feel my energy returning. I know I’ve thought of moving to Perth to be with family but with their extended heatwaves I think I’d probably need to take all summer off in Hobart or something
I’m very glad to be in Melbourne right now but I am sure I’ll be complaining about the cold in 4 months.
It’s so lovely. You can just hear the garden inhaling all that lovely moisture. This gentle rain is perfect.
I do so miss that about living in a house with a garden. Right now the tranquility of the drizzle hitting the driveway and roads has been broken by the neighbour’s heavily disabled adult son’s evening moanings. But this fresh coolth is still rejuvenating regardless.
I’m still really tired. I have no interest in work today
Bleh, feeling drained today and got a headache incoming as well.
This is going to be make for an unpleasent day even longer :(
Yeah you’re not alone on this. Feeling like I’m running at maybe 50% capacity, if that. Any actual work is a real struggle!
My brain is not braining today!
Went and got my hair cut on Friday thinking I’d spend the weekend doing a bit of body maintenance and letting the kid dye my hair. I did none of that. I barely left the couch.
Took my anti-sad this morning, three days late. Stayed up all night and still haven’t crashed. Had a roll for lunch. I can feel my brain is not quite right, I’m lagging, but I just can’t get sleep to take me.
At this point I’ll have to aim to be in bed around 9ish or 10 so I don’t fuck my sleep cycle up much more.
and so it goes
and so it goes
and so it goes
and so it goes
The ole rego payment has a bit of bite to it. Need something to chase it down.
Are you paying for the full year? They have quarterly options.
Ye, one and done for the year.
It sucks. First time around it was painful, so after that I would just sock it away from my fortnightly pay to my bills account and have it auto transfer out of there so I wouldn’t feel the same emotional trauma. Now that I’m looking at cars again I’m conscious of how much I’ll have to whittle away
I’m so fucking motivated now the weather is nice lol
It’s nice to have the doors open and the place aired out
I’m finding the humidity quite revolting.
