Posted by dancingstar on November 1, 2004, at 3:16:03
In reply to Re: starting effexor... keep posting.. success/dos » dancingstar, posted by Cee Jay on October 31, 2004, at 22:22:33
I, too, was prescribed EffexorXR by a gp (family practice). I didn't know anything about it. I had back pain, and I was tired.
As it turned out, I am low thyroid and have fibromyalgia, which are both under control...except for most recently when I decided that I would stop taking Effexor. Something told me that it was beginning to cause my body harm, but I don't know exactly what it is that made me feel that way. I was sure, though, that at the very least it was causing me to gain weight and to not be able to lose weight no matter what I did. I had ruled out every other possibiity, and this alone was beginning to cause me anxiety. So one day I just stopped taking the drug as I knew that I wasn't depressed. It wasn't until three days later that I began to experience what hell was really like.
It is now four and a half weeks later, and I'm fine except for my stomach. In the last three days I have had so much more energy than I have had in years. I can think more clearly. I had begun to think that I was not able to concentrate for any length of time or had something like ADD, but it's gone, completely gone. Tonight I worked from 9:00 until now, 1:15, and I'm now going to go to sleep. I can't tell you how much better I feel without Effexor.
Please be sure that you really, really, really need to take this drug. The effects are slow and subtle. I didn't realize how debilitated I had become. It seems as though over time, it caused the very problems it set out to cure and once I got it out of my system, I've gotten my life back again.
If you don't need it, try to get on without it.
Wishing you the best of health and happiness!!!!
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