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Pristiq - what do I expect?
Hello. Three months of struggling and more to come, so on the gentle advice of three members of my medical team, I'm about to take anti-depressants for the first time in my life.
The oncologist and GP have conferred and I have a box of Pristiq ready to go tomorrow morning. Pristiq because down the track the onc says I'll be on Tamoxifen and those two go together OK, unlike Lexapro.
Is anyone out there on Pristiq? What can I expect over the next few weeks?
The oncologist and GP have conferred and I have a box of Pristiq ready to go tomorrow morning. Pristiq because down the track the onc says I'll be on Tamoxifen and those two go together OK, unlike Lexapro.
Is anyone out there on Pristiq? What can I expect over the next few weeks?
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- Great to hear @kmakm! And more special times to lighten the mood can only help.
- @lrb_03 Thank you Lyn, you too.
- That's really good to hear, @kmakm, bpth because you're feeling a bit better, and because your experience will help others. What you deescribe makes sense to me, and will to anyone who's been where you have.
Take care
Lyn - Thank you @Rosie_BCNA, appreciated.
- Great to hear you are feeling more like yourself @kmakm. Im sure your post will be helpful to anyone wondering about taking antidepressants. Thanks for sharing, Rosie
- Reporting back @lrb_03. It might help someone asking the same questions as me one day. I started feeling some effect after two weeks. I feel more even. The moods still swing but not as widely. My brain feels less emotionally caged. I feel more normal, less desperate. Does that make sense?
- Thanks @brightspace.
- Hi Kmakm i had work related stress so took meds for about two years
Found it best to take them late arvo before dinner..at first it affected my concentration so take care if driving thats why i took later
All best B - Thank you @lrb_03. Will do.
- I certainly haven't lost myself. I'd say Pristiq, particularly when I first went on it, went a long way to bringing myself back to me.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not always great, but mostly I can find the tools that I have, when the dose is right, to help myself.
Feel free to pm me any time
