Posted by Sam in Oz on March 15, 2004, at 2:57:23
In reply to Re: Efexor XR - Long Term Withdrawal - (Lizzy) » kphoo, posted by Lizzy7711 on March 14, 2004, at 21:48:56
Well what can I say?! I have spent the entire afternoon reading all of these posts and I was brought to tears most of the time. I have been taking Efexor for a couple of years now, dose of 150mg. It has been helping me with my depression and anxiety, although I never dreamed that I would be faced with this nightmare when I wanted to come off it. I am very angry that the doctors are so un-informative, although I guess most doctors don't have any problems of this kind and therefore are totally naive to things in the real world.
I am one of those crazy people who decided to go cold turkey off efexor, not knowing what I was in for. If only i'd discovered this site three days ago!! Well, you know how it goes, I won't go into the symptoms, most of you have been there done that.......but my problem is, my reason for coming off the medication is because I found out I am pregnant. I once came off cipramil, and had only a couple of days of migraines, so I thought it would be the same.....NOT AT ALL!!! I havn't even got a headache this time, just everything else......
So anyway, I just was wondering if anyone else has been pregnant while taking Efexor? I'm happy to hear that people are sharing their experiences and giving some ideas as to what other meds can be taken to ease the withdrawal process. I had no choice today but to take an efexor capsule to basically stop from going crazy. My poor kids have born the brunt of the anger and mood swings, and as for the dreams, well.....Stephen King eat your heart out!! I'm sick of being brain zapped and the nausea is disgusting. I'm hoping that now i've taken a tablet things will improve, but i'm not going to try again in a hurry, I just hope that it isn't doing the baby any damage.
On the up side, the way i've been feeling, i've not had a cigarette or a drink of alcohol for three days!! Sorry for this rambling, but its great to find there are other people like me :))
Sam
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