Brintellix (trintellix) Withdrawal (Page 2) (Top voted first)

Started 10 mg Trintellix 3 weeks ago. Vomiting at least 2x a day and constant nausea, fatigue, muscle and back pain. Trying to wean off it - doctor said take it every second day for a week then go see her. What is the normal time frame for withdrawal? I am terrified of this drug. I am diabetic and it is making my sugars wildly fluctuate too.

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Re: Nicola (# 20)

Withdrawel from Trintellix can be severe. I'm currently located in Norway where Trintellix is called Brintellix. In the Norwegian guideline for doctors it says that you can stop cold turkey on the meds. After using Trintellix for 1 year on 20 mg a day I wanted to stop using them. My doctor just looked up in his book and said: it says here you cant just stop taking them . There will be no withdrawel symptoms.periode.

So I trusted him and then the hell broke loose. Shivers, brain fog-felt like my brain was num, poor vision, dizzines, nausea, agression, out bursts, tears..and so on..almost the same hell as when I weaned off Paxil..I tried to get information from Lundbeck, but they just said that according to our trials no one in the trial group reported withdrawel symptoms. The norwegian health board says: Ok , Lundbeck we trust you. Lunch and golf next week as usual? It's a joke. But I'm hanging in there..slowely weaning off this poison. Now down to 5mg a day..writing my masters degree thesis at the same time and it's a nightmare. Go slow is my advice. Eat healthy, exercise, stay away from alcohol for a while (a beer or two is prob. ok), take amino-acids and think that one day it will all be good again..hopefully

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I feel like now that I'm off of it I wake up shakey.

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How are you feel now? Are you on anything? I'm trying to be med free

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I have been on Trintellix for 16 months. I started on 10mg and shortly after I increased to 20mg. Before Trintellix I was on Prozac 20mg for 3 years.

Around April of this year the medsstopped working and when hopes were lost my doctor asked to taper it off. After being on 10mg for a week, I felt great and told my doctor that I would like to remain on 10mg. Fast forward to now, the meds stopped working again. Fog, fatigue and excessive sleep for the past 2 weeks.
Starting tomorrow I will do every other day, technically moving to 5mg and see what happens.

I want to come off and might test escitalopram.

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I took 5-10 mg of Brintellix for 5 weeks. Didn't like the brain fog. Was told by my MD to stop the current dosage of 5 mg after 3 more days. Since then my brain fog has not cleared. Any idea how long approximately before I get relief? My brain has always been sensitive to this type of medication.

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Called Lundbeck (canadian office in Montreal) today to get advice on how to wean off/stop taking Trintellix. Shocked to be told "there is NO protocol for weaning/stopping this drug. You have to let your doctor decide how to proceed"! "Everyone has a different reaction". My doctor is away for a week so. My pharmacist and I are trying to figure something out, but I am absolutely stunned at Lundbeck's answer

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