Posted by ankh on January 14, 2004, at 14:41:18
In reply to Re: How long would these withdrawal symtoms last?, posted by creeppedOutWendy on January 14, 2004, at 14:20:08
> Thank you for your suggestion. But if I ...
> just deal with the symptoms, would it ever
> go away? and how long would it take?I am not a doctor, so all I can offer is personal experience. I think I did the usual taper-down-to-zero, as you did, then went maybe six weeks with the tingles-and-willies before my doctor suggested the low-dose Prozac. Each week (for three months) I noticed the Effexor withdrawal reappear, and I took another tiny dose of Prozac.
Then one week, no tingles, no electric shocks, no silent invisible kicks in the head, I felt good.
Now for me, that's what getting to summertime is like anyhow, getting past winter depression.
So -- I can't even guess what your experience will be. For me, I had been through difficult withdrawal from Zoloft, and from Prozac itself, the past two years, and my doctor knew when I said the Effexor was a whole different kind of problem I wasn't kidding, and came up with that approach. He knew me, knew I'd done my darnedest to get through it without help.
"Your mileage may" -- will -- "vary" as they say.
Might be that continuing a thread here about the withdrawal day by day will attract other people whose stories may be helpful.
I don't know if our host comments on such matters, but there is no doubt a lot more to this withdrawal issue known now than when I was facing it.
It may be wise, if this is troubling you, at least to tell your doctor it's happening to you, eh? Could be it's a known problem by now!
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