Posted by Mercedes on January 15, 2004, at 0:12:13
In reply to How long would these withdrawal symtoms last?, posted by creeppedOutWendy on January 14, 2004, at 9:47:31
Wendy, I read the other responses to your question and I too agree that you may need a little bit of something to help in withdrawing from Effexor. You don't mention how long you were on it.
In my case, I was on a low dose 37.5 for a whole year, then changed Pdocs and he increased me gradually to 300mgs. So two years total. Due to high blood pressure, I had to quite taking it.
It took me 5 weeks to withdraw and had all the brain-zapping, electrical shocks, feelings of needles coming out of my skin, nightmares, etc. But I lived to talk about it.
I hope you don't have the withdrawals as long as I did. This board helps you through it too, cause you are not alone.
Take care,
Mercedes
********************************> It has been a week since I quit Effexor completely. I have been expereincing pretty much every symptoms posted by others. I was taking half dosage of what I was taking for three weeks before I quit it completely (My doctor recommended this). I'm taking it ok, but not sure how much more I can handle this. Does anyone know how long these withdrawal symptoms would last?
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