Posted by jtc on June 23, 2003, at 8:08:35
In reply to Re: Should I stop effexor, posted by melley on June 23, 2003, at 6:55:28
> > I don't want anyone to get the wrong message from what I want to say. I have been on effexor for 7 days and just found this posting site. I've read everyone's experiences. Before effexor, I had been on prozac 20 mg. for about 5 years. I originally started the med because of marital problems and needed something to help me thru it. Everything worked out and I'm still married, going on 19 years. Heres my thing, when do you know if you don't need any meds any more? For the past 2 days I have forgotten my effexor and I have the worst nausua ever today. The prozac had begun to make me very lifeless and tired and lazy and sleepy, that's why I wanted to change to effexor. But now, I kind of feel like maybe I don't need any meds any more. My family practice doc prescribes it for me. I've never been to a phsyc. dr. I would just like to be my old self again and not be medicated if I don't have to be. I can remember feeling so much more energetic before I started prozac and I would love to discontinue if I could. I asked my dr. and he said, "ok", just to stop, that I'm not on high enough dosage to taper off. What do you think.
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> I think you will still need to taper off. Now, about needing meds. Generally the way it works with meds is that the first time you have a depressive episode you take it for a year. Then go off. If the depression comes back then you go on it long term. This is just what I learned in my travels. Might not be a bad idea to go off all and then it you are still feeling bad get back on. What about wellbutrin? That helps with depression but usually makes you more energetic then less. melissaHi, I took Effexor for about 1 year but before that I was on Luvox for about 3 or 4 years. My psychiatrist suggested that I stop the Effexor this past spring just to "clean out" my system and see how I did without it. Well I am doing okay. I do feel a little better because I had read about so many side effects and bad things about the Effexor but it did help me while I was on it. It was difficult getting off of it though. I also had the nausea and the dizziness and strange feelings in my head. But that is all gone now. I have been off Effexor for about 2 months now but I still take Klonopin,.5 mg every night just for anxiety. I am starting to think I need to be taking another antidepressant because I have zero patience with my two girls and my husband. I am a stay at home mom and I do medical transcription from home but my husband is still very controlling of our finances and he nickels and dimes everything I do or buy and it seems like he just thinks he is always right about things and I am always wrong. I feel as though he just does not care about me like he used to. He sometimes talks down to me like I am 10 years old, but we have been married for 18 years and there is a lot of "stuff" that I am upset with him about but anyway we have two small girls and I just cannot let them be without a father because I grew up without my father because of divorce. Anyway enough about my junk. Good luck to you and you might try Benadryl for dizziness or nausea while going off Effexor. Hang in there, you can do it. jtc
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