Posted by pablo1 on July 10, 2004, at 0:14:28
In reply to Re: withdrawal duration, posted by John Doe on February 6, 2003, at 1:48:17
New to the group. I've been about 7 weeks on 75mg of xr and it's been great for what my doc calls repressed anxiety. Not a worry in the world but no dreams, bad sleep waking repeatedly and early rise. It worked within 20 minutes of the first 37.5mg sample pack dose though the good effects took a couple weeks to overcome initial discomfort. My real problem though is motivation/procrastination. Well the stubbornness of the repressed anxiety is a big deal too but anyways I've continued to procrastinate. Initially the effect was narcotic enough to reduce my drinking from a high of 9 drinks per night to two and I have been very pleasant on this drug. But I ramped back up to the original drinking and experimented with some blissful pot smoking as well with eventless days of content inaction and pittering about the house.
Anyways, my bottle is about up so the night before last I quit. I felt nothing but the return of dreams and some more energy yesterday. Another wonderful dreamy night without waking last night (I had zero dreams on this drug and woke repeatedly arising early) and today I've been feeling the brain zaps (though not too bad, just strange) and I've been conspicuously hyperactive enjoying listening to music feeling emotions, crying at the songs, feeling chills up my spine, walking around dancing to the music feeling great. I feel like I'm on speed or something though and the brain zaps have been increasing.
Just goes to prove it's different for everyone I guess. I wouldn't say I was emotionless on effexor but certainly numbed. I could laugh but not cry. No intense pleasure but overall quite "pleasant" and agreeable, less stubborn for sure. I'm supposed to be getting in touch with my repressed feelings in therapy but there was nothing: just a calm demeanor.
Thinking I'd like to try Prozac with Dexadrine as ADD inattentive type is a possible diagnosis for me. I tried Wellbutrin (made me overfocussed and bad sleep) and Ritalin and Aderall which just got me high (I never was fond of stimulants anyways). As I understand Wellbutrin acts on noradrenalin and I really didn't like that and sensed some of the same effect from effexor. I am introverted, intelligent, stubborn, independent, impractical and unable to hold a job or follow through with a potentially very rewarding self employment situation I've got set up for the past couple years.
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