Peata
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I'm trying to figure out what's doing this to me. Here is what's changed.
I've been on Vitex since the end of November. I used 1,200 mg., raised the dose for a month to 1,600, then back to 1,200 since beginning of March. I decided to go off it. I lowered dose to 800 mg. on Sunday. I then stopped altogether on Wed.
I took 200 mg. pregnenolone on Wed and none since.
I've had a hard time with lightheadedness, anxiety, heart pounding feeling, malaise. It started around 2 p.m. Wed. It went away last night, thought it was done. It came back when I was having breakfast today. It's been mostly tolerable all day. But it gets worse at times. I find it hard to focus on reading and writing, and it's hard for me to write this post.
I thought perhaps my heart was beating too fast, but when I check it, the pulse is normal. But I can feel a sensation in my chest. Not pain or pressure. I started to wonder if it was my lungs because I have to gasp for air now and then. As if I can't get enough. Maybe related to the anxiety feeling going on that I'm trying to get rid of.
I'm OK if I'm sitting around, but if I get up and try to do much, the weird head feeling gets stronger. It's sort of an all-over bad feeling now though....
Just got back from an easy walk around the neighborhood. I started feeling really bad on this walk. I began to realize something.
The way I feel reminds me of SSRI discontinuation syndrome, which I've suffered through several times in the past, quitting Paxil, Lexapro, etc... This isn't as bad, but it's pretty bad. I'm in bed now. I ate and am resting and feeling a little better.
What gives? Could there be something to stopping the Vitex? I read it acts on mu opioid receptors. Agonizes D2 receptors. But I've never read about people having a withdrawal on the forums I perused - mostly women trying to conceive. Maybe it's something else in the Vitex. Or it might not be the Vitex at all.
This started the same day I took 200 mg pregnenolone (spread out over about 8 hr). That's the day I quit Vitex. I've missed a dose of Vitex here and there and never had these symptoms. So I don't know.
I don't know if any of you have ideas on what could be going on either. If you do, I'd like to hear them.
I find it really sucks to be experiencing this. Because I never thought I'd ever have these SSRI type symptoms again - I was never going to touch them again, and I haven't, yet here are similar symptoms.
Adding for more info: Vitex raises dopamine, progesterone, lowers prolactin. GABA agonist.
Also, about 15 min. ago I took 800 mg. Vitex just to see if it helps the symptoms go away.
I've been on Vitex since the end of November. I used 1,200 mg., raised the dose for a month to 1,600, then back to 1,200 since beginning of March. I decided to go off it. I lowered dose to 800 mg. on Sunday. I then stopped altogether on Wed.
I took 200 mg. pregnenolone on Wed and none since.
I've had a hard time with lightheadedness, anxiety, heart pounding feeling, malaise. It started around 2 p.m. Wed. It went away last night, thought it was done. It came back when I was having breakfast today. It's been mostly tolerable all day. But it gets worse at times. I find it hard to focus on reading and writing, and it's hard for me to write this post.
I thought perhaps my heart was beating too fast, but when I check it, the pulse is normal. But I can feel a sensation in my chest. Not pain or pressure. I started to wonder if it was my lungs because I have to gasp for air now and then. As if I can't get enough. Maybe related to the anxiety feeling going on that I'm trying to get rid of.
I'm OK if I'm sitting around, but if I get up and try to do much, the weird head feeling gets stronger. It's sort of an all-over bad feeling now though....
Just got back from an easy walk around the neighborhood. I started feeling really bad on this walk. I began to realize something.
The way I feel reminds me of SSRI discontinuation syndrome, which I've suffered through several times in the past, quitting Paxil, Lexapro, etc... This isn't as bad, but it's pretty bad. I'm in bed now. I ate and am resting and feeling a little better.
What gives? Could there be something to stopping the Vitex? I read it acts on mu opioid receptors. Agonizes D2 receptors. But I've never read about people having a withdrawal on the forums I perused - mostly women trying to conceive. Maybe it's something else in the Vitex. Or it might not be the Vitex at all.
This started the same day I took 200 mg pregnenolone (spread out over about 8 hr). That's the day I quit Vitex. I've missed a dose of Vitex here and there and never had these symptoms. So I don't know.
I don't know if any of you have ideas on what could be going on either. If you do, I'd like to hear them.
I find it really sucks to be experiencing this. Because I never thought I'd ever have these SSRI type symptoms again - I was never going to touch them again, and I haven't, yet here are similar symptoms.
Adding for more info: Vitex raises dopamine, progesterone, lowers prolactin. GABA agonist.
Also, about 15 min. ago I took 800 mg. Vitex just to see if it helps the symptoms go away.
