Posted by sajjie on June 8, 2007, at 10:58:19
In reply to Re: Cold Turkey Effexor, posted by benbetter on January 31, 2006, at 2:54:14
You guys slay me!
I'm on day 6 of cold turkey (My doctor will YELL at me if I tell him I'm anxious or anything else. We're getting along like old friends now that I tell him nothing. ;) )
I've found my symptoms have been: feeling too hot and sweating my butt off
And with a fan? Feeling too cold and shivering.
Head spinning one way, stomach, the other.
Severe nausea (Can't even eat anything; and I'm single handedly supporting Pepto bismol right now)
Feeling like I'm going to fall over at any moment
Constant brain zaps
(My definition is thinking of a broken electrical circuit where the electricity jumps to the other side anyway.. That's what mine seem like. A whole buncha broken circuits)
My brain not keeping up with my eyes
dizziness, motion sickness, the occasional sensation that someone stuck a fork in my cheek
trouble moving around, as I get so sick feeling in my stomach..
I've had no anxiety or depression coming off it tho, and my sense of humor is intact!
However, I'll laugh AFTER this is over. ;) You guys were making me laugh so much tho.
Yeah, I'm doing the cold-turkey thing since it's easier than trying to deal with my doctor who figures I'm brain dead. :)
I had depression before, but it's gone and now I just need to deal with the anxiety that comes with my social phobias.
Either way, thanks for this post! We should turn it into a book on how to survive dropping Venlafaxine. It's ebil.
Besides, the venlafaxine does NADA for my anxiety anyway. ;p
poster:sajjie
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