Posted by Leroy on March 10, 2000, at 7:44:50
In reply to Re: coming off Effexor , posted by juniper on January 16, 2000, at 0:40:43
Hi Martha and Juniper. I'm Lee in the UK. This is wierd, but I've been thinking of coming off my Effexor XL for a few months (new year / new start etc) and so decided to see if n e 1 had similar feelings / aprehensions etc. Found this thread! It's really good to know that there ARE withdrawals from AD's. I mean, I don't know how EFX compares with, say, Prozac, but during the last year since I've been taking EFX (150mg) I have noticed some very scary side effects on 'missing' doses. Sometimes it's due to downright laziness, but sometimes I run out when I'm away from home, and just this last week, have gone only 5 days without it and have suffered some of the s-effects you both mention. My main s-effect - the one which scares me most - is that feeling of just being a shell...you know? When you aren't really thinking of anything exept the cause of the original depression, and I just feel like this one thought, rattling around in a very fragile shell of a body. Will these symptoms reccur, even if I come off EFX gradually? I REALLY don't feel like having to be an 'emotional slave' to a manufactured drug....
Would appreciate any response....
Lee
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