Posted by PoohBear on January 17, 2005, at 18:09:26
In reply to Re: Effexor Withdrawl - I did it, so can you, posted by msbarker2u on January 15, 2005, at 13:13:46
> I am so sick and angry today I could just lay down and cry. It's been a week now without any Effexor at all and for the last 2 days I've felt better. Not today. Had to go this morning to see my little 7 year old daughter at a drill team clinic. While my husband and I were standing there holding our two boys, 1 and 2 years old, I started sweating so profusely the people around me were looking at me strangly. I got so nauseated I thought I was going to faint. Maybe they weren't really staring at me. I don't know. Maybe I'm just losing my mind. When we got in the car to leave I felt like we were going to have a wreck or I was going to fly out of the car. I've never felt or thought anything like this. I was so scared just riding in the car. This morning before we left I was laughing at my husband and then immediately felt like I was going to cry. Now I just feel like crying and crying. This is making me so darn sick and I just don't know what to do. I've been taking benedryl but it makes me sleepy. I've got children and things that need to be done. I had to get the bottle of Effexor out to fill out the FDA complaint form and I'm sitting here looking at it and knowing all I have to do is take a pill. I don't want to go back but I just don't see this going forward. God help me. I've got to go play the piano at church in the morning and I'm afraid I can't look up and down at the music and the keyboard. That makes my brain feel like it's jumping out of my skull. I'm babbling I know so I'm going to stop now.
I will reiterate here what I posted under "Effexor Withdrawal - GOOD NEWS"...
I have been off Effexor (150mg per day for 15 months) for three weeks now. I tapered from 150 to 75 to 37.5mgs over a period of about 10 days. I started taking Prozac 20mg per day at the START of the taper, augmenting with Benedryl and Tylenol.
At the end of my taper, having been on Prozac for 3 days or so, I had out-patient surgery on my shoulder with general anesthesia. They put me on Percoset and Vicoden, so that my have helped the transition as well.
I am still taking Seroquel for sleep and am now just on Advil for shoulder pain. I ran out of Prozac last Friday, so no AD for ther last three days. Feeling okay so far, but will be talking to my psychiatrist later this week.
I am still dealing with major arrhythmia problems, so it may not have been the Effexor that caused that, and the reason why my doctor wanted me off it.
If you haven't started, try the Prozac and Benedryl. It REALLY works.
Tony
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