Posted by Laurajean on April 2, 2004, at 17:37:12
In reply to Re: Effexor withdrawal symptoms! » elvenfae, posted by jiggitykid on April 2, 2004, at 7:41:10
Hi everyone,
I posted my first message a couple months ago...and I bagan tapering from 300 mg XR at the end of January. I went 300 to 150 to 75 to 37.5 and am now OFF (day 4). I still feel horrible....It was much better when i was 37.5 and I have been very tempted to pop one when the withdrawal seems unbearable, but I don't want to complicate matters.I did something kind of unique and I went to every other day, which seemed to help and then every three days, etc. But regardless--now that I'm completely off I feel horrible. My work is suffering--I am going but am not really all "there."
Did anyone else have crying jags or anything? I constantly feel like I am going to start crying. Given that I am a clinical social worker, this isn't the greatest thing when meeting with clients. : ) Sometimes during the day I feel "okay" (relatively) and then am hit with a wave of nausea, dizziness or shivering. Is this normal? My doc prescribed a benzo--serax--to help with w/d (apparently it calms the nervous system--is used for acute alcohol/drug w/d) but I really am not so into taking any other psychotropics right now. anythng else to combat the feverish/fluey feeling? I guess I will just have to wait it out, but it's HARD! I am tired of feeling like this.
Thanks
laura
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