Psycho-Babble Medication | about biological treatments | Framed
This thread | Show all | Post follow-up | Start new thread | List of forums | Search | FAQ

Re: Long term effects of Effexor/permanent

Posted by Alara on September 2, 2002, at 6:17:11

In reply to Re: Long term effects of Effexor/permanent » Sahara, posted by simone on August 27, 2002, at 18:40:12

Hang in there! I stopped taking my daily 75mg of Effexor almost two weeks ago and am only just staring to feel `normal' again. Yes, I went cold turkey, and I wouldn't recommend that anyone else tries this without first consulting his/her doctor.

Two days after my last dose, I rushed home early, convinced that I was having some kind of unprecedented attack of psychosis. (Have never been psychotic before and yet I was feeling so paranoid and anxious at work, that I thought that they were labeling me as `mad'.) I headed straight to bed with feelings of severe nausea and anxiety. I called in sick the next day and divided my weekend time between the toilet and the bucket under my bed...:-) One minute I was sweating, the next I was so cold that I couldn't get warm under my continental quilt.

Five days after my last dose, I started to feel like my true self again. The nausea became more intermittent and I was regaining some of my appetite. The electric shock feelings were the worst: They started in nerves located at my extremities (mainly fingers) and shot through my body, culminating in a yawning kind of sensation in my ears. Still, I knew by then that I was getting better and this gave me the courage to get through,

Tomorrow is the two-week anniversary of my last Effexor dose. I feel that I am finally regaining contact with the person that I was before I started this drug. The electric shocks are the only aspect of the withdrawal that bother me now - and they are becoming less and less troublesome each day.

Hang in there. Many of us know exactly how you feel. You will be OK.


Share
Tweet  

Thread

 

Post a new follow-up

Your message only Include above post


Notify the administrators

They will then review this post with the posting guidelines in mind.

To contact them about something other than this post, please use this form instead.

 

Start a new thread

 
Google
dr-bob.org www
Search options and examples
[amazon] for
in

This thread | Show all | Post follow-up | Start new thread | FAQ
Psycho-Babble Medication | Framed

poster:Alara thread:13781
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20020829/msgs/118508.html