Posted by wifeofarmyguy on January 30, 2006, at 2:29:23
In reply to scared of effexor and withdrawal, posted by 3mom on November 20, 2005, at 20:41:47
okay, i tried to post a reply to this once already, so if everyone else can see my first reply, i'm sorry...but i can't...
i totally feel 3mom's pain. i was put on effexor by a family dr after having a routine physical and talking to him about not being able to handle the everyday things with three kids. (i did fine and could handle just about anything you threw my way when we had 2 kids...)He diagnosed me with PMDD and Depression, gave me Zoloft because it was more for the PMDD and off i went. I moved onto the Effexor because of sexual side effects and the fact that the roof could be falling in and on Zoloft i'd say something like, oh well...who needs a roof anyway?
I stopped taking the Effexor last week (after about a year on it) for a number of reasons and have started having withdrawl symptoms. The most obvious ones to me are being very emotional and being VERY easily angered. I'm so upset and (go figure) angry that maybe effexor was too heavy a hitter for what I was experiencing, and that in today's society we trust our dr's to do what is best and many of them seem to be doing what is easiest... It is so disheartening...
BTW I've quit the dr by my choice, not a dr's as I do not have a dr att, we've moved from MI to CA and I have not found a dr for myself yet...
I'm interested in hearing from anyone about recommendations on what to look for in an alternative dr (I really feel poor nutrition plays a huge part in my mood problems), what to watch for while I come off the effexor, how darn long it's going to take to come off of it, and anything else anyone wants to share. Tina
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