Posted by bballcoach43837 on January 26, 2003, at 21:55:18
In reply to Anyone had success on Effexor XR? , posted by jp on October 24, 1999, at 14:59:14
I was given Effexor after many years of depression and no success with other drugs. The results were wonderful. I was finally numb and loving it. I wanted to take more and more so I could feel more and more numb. I was up to 75 MG twice a day. Keep reading because this gets good. I lost my job in November, then my insurance benefits. I started taking less and less Effexor because I was running out and knew that the $268 to refill my prescription would not be possible. Less dosage didn't cause any withdrawal symptoms. 10 days ago I took my last pill. At first I didn't know what was wrong with me, I thought I had the flu. I was dizzy, disoriented, freezing then burning up. I had this strange noise in my head when I moved my eyes. I had moments of uncontrollable rage, then immediately after....sadness. My emotions were on a roller coaster ride. These symptoms lasted for 6 days and I thought I might go crazy. Then the strangest thing of all happened. I looked around and noticed how beautiful colors were. Food tasted SOOOOOOOOOO good. Everything felt nice. Touching, looking, smelling. Every sense was heightened to catastrohpic degrees. I COULD FEEL AGAIN. And I liked it. I forgot who I was when I went on the stupid things because I felt completely different. I tried to flush my system with herbs and water an detoxifiers, all of which I'm certain helped. I exercised a lot and today, finally there are no more of those horrible brain shivers that I've read about time and again on the internet.
The moral of this story is this. If you are looking for a quick fix from years of unhappiness and depression then Effexor is your drug. Not until I got off of it did I realize the damage it had done to every cell in my body. Someday however, you will have to go off it and let me tell you that cold turkey was no picnic but there are plenty of people out there who have been reducing their pills via bb's (opening the capsule and remove little bb's) for YEARS!! Is that what you really want? If you have mild to moderate depression then you should really consider something other than drugs because this roller coaster ride nearly pushed me off the edge. I was not myself when I was on it and I would not be off it right now if I had not lost my job because I was in this blissful indifference. It's like a viscious cycle really, when you are on it you never want to get off of it, but when you are off it you wonder what the HELL you were thinking of when you got on it in the first place!
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