Posted by jclint on November 1, 2004, at 17:27:20
In reply to Re: doctors and prescriptions » jclint, posted by dancingstar on November 1, 2004, at 17:09:50
I'm sorry if I caused offence. I do have a lack of empathy, as I obviously have not been subjected to the suffering people like you have. My issue is that by demonising the withdrawal to the extent you do, IMO, is destructive rather than constructive. Especially as there are people here seemingly uneducated about the these extreme reactions - your posts imply that your reaction was a normal one. One again, I don't mean to create hostility here, but I hope you can see my side of the equation also. J
> I'm glad to hear of one person that hasn't had trouble when they stop taking the drug; though even you profess to having more energy without it than you did while you were taking it.
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> I don't appreciate your calling my reaction "hysterical." For over four weeks I wasn't able to work because I was so ill. It doesn't seem as though many people stop taking Effexor once they begin to take it, but I am going to attend a symposium to find out more about things like that this weekend. While it is possible that the intense reaction to withdrawal from Effexor doesn't occur in everyone, it happens often enough for the medical community to be more aware of it than they are at this time. And since we don't seem to know to whom this devastating withdrawal is going to happen, why would anyone want to risk it happening to them?
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> Your lack of empathy and humour in noting that my comment verges on the hysterical makes its own kind of chilly statement.
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