Posted by Jiggitykid on December 29, 2004, at 17:56:14
In reply to Re: Effexor withdrawal symptoms!, posted by ChestersMom on December 29, 2004, at 11:59:20
If you follow the path of most folks here, you have another week to "endure," but then you'll begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. After about two more weeks, you'll begin to feel like yourself. It takes a while, and requires understanding of that on your part. I often have thought that the fact that I was one of the "early ones," here on this board, I was lucky in a way, because I didn't have any kind of idea about length of symptoms. I had to face it on a day-by-day basis, and I strongly recommend you face it that way, too. Give yourself LOTS of lattitude, understand that your temper is likely to be short, your emotions are significantly more fragile right now, and that you need to be careful about making major decisions for a while. Please help those around you to understand what is going on. If you haven't, send them here and let the peruse the archives to see what the reality of withdrawal from this drug is. Now, don't take this as a license to misbehave :-), but you will have to give yourself room.
I went cold-turkey. I've read here where folks have done the graduated step-down, and I've not seen any major difference in withdrawal, exept perhaps in severity of symptoms. Once it is out of your system, regardless of how few you take, you still have to ride the rollercoaster until it stops.
Please know that you (and anyone reading this who is going through the same thing) are in my prayers. For me, as a Christian, the strength that kept me hanging on was knowing that through it all, God was with me, He was loving me, and He was encouraging me to learn something from this. Now, I participate in this board to hopefully help folks who have just stepped off into the wilds of withdrawal. Please, take care of yourself. Please continue to check in here. Please go sign the petition at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/effexor/
Remember, there is a class action lawsuit in the works. Bebe0217@aol.com has all the info. Only email if you are seriously interested in joining. What can help now is if you write down everything you've experienced with effexor and the basic timeline. I'm not a litigious person. I don't jump into lawsuits at the drop of a hat. However, Wyeth knows about this, and needs to be held accountable in their lack of releasing information to the medical community and the consumers about the withdrawal effects of this medication.Hang in there!
> I have been off Effexor for just over a week and I still have the terrible symptoms of the withdrawl. I took Effexor for 2 years, 75 mg/day. I also did the gradual withdrawl but still feeling lowsy. I hope this goes away soon. I don't think I have ever felt this bad. I hope you are doing better.
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> > I have been on Effexor for about one year and for the last month or so have been tapering down to get off completely. My doctor had me on 27.5 mg (about as low as one can go!). I have just finished one week on this low dosage and this is the third day off. I still have horrible withdrawal symptoms! Nausea! Body aches! Dizziness! Help! How long does it take?????
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