Coming off anti-depressants

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Allicat
Allicat Member Posts: 83
edited March 2013 in Health and wellbeing

Last week I asked my GP if I could come off my anti-depressant. He said I could and suggested taking half a tablet a day for 2 weeks and then half a tablet every second day for 2 weeks to wean myself off tem. Currently I take one tablet per day.

I have been wanting to come off them for a while but now that he says it is ok I feel scared.

The tablet is Pristiq and when I googled it there were all these people saying how impossible they were to get off. That's why I generally don't google medical questions!

I was going to only take half tonight but when the moment came I had the whole one. Originally the doctor suggested taking one tablet every second day but then when I said I get brain zaps if I forget a tablet he changed it half a tablet every day. I liked the first plan better.

I'm wondering if I could do a whole tablet every day and a half as my weaning off tactic. But that might be confusing to remember . Maybe I should just do what the doctor said.

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  • Allicat
    Allicat Member Posts: 83
    edited March 2015
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    Thanks Leonie. Slow and steady is the plan :-)

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