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Re: Success with Effexor XR! » sid

Posted by A0102 on February 12, 2002, at 17:14:12

In reply to Re: Success with Effexor XR! » A0102, posted by sid on February 11, 2002, at 10:31:49

>Are you self-medicating? 3 weeks only to get to 150mg, no wonder you felt like sh**. If a doctor made you do that, he needs to learn about Effexor XR. You were way to high way too fast in my opinion. And stopping an AD cold turkey is no better. You could have been very sick and with some ADs, it can even be lethal. Why are you playing with your health this way? I hope it's the depression making you take irrational risks like that, and I hope you'll know better in the future.


Actually, it was under my pdoc's instruction to get to 150mg in 3 weeks. 37.5 the first, 75 the next and then 150 the third week. The first two weeks, I took Effexor straight from Wyerth's starter pack so it wasn't so much my pdoc's idea as it was the manufacturer's. Why did I stop so suddenly? Frankly, I'd probably never felt worse my entire life. I am not so ignorant as to flush the remainder down the toilet, so in the event that I did suffer some horrible withdrawl symptoms it's not like I couldn't resume taking them. I think a better question would ask why the hell I would continue. I would definitely prefer to have tapered back down, however there's not way to break an XR capsule and have any assurance of how much one would be taking and whether the release would be consistent. Not to mention, if a medication had a warning in the literature (not to mention a big sticker on the side) about fatal discontinuation symptoms, do you really think I would do that? The point is, some people have a terrible time trying to stop Effexor and I didn't. My decision to stop in that manner turned out to be a great one, and I think other people should know about that. There is no since in everyone being scared to death of stopping or even starting a med (Effexor) if the problems that they may be scared of don't even apply to them. In conclusion, many many many people in the world are capable of making their own decisions without someone like you to come along and say how idiotic and wreckless he or she may be for not doing things exactly how you approve. Next time, before you try to blame me for making horrible decisions because you think I might be horribly and psychotically depressed (or whatever your opinion is) please realize that the material you read to draw your conclusions about such matters is available to everyone and you may or may not be right.

Adam


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