Posted by tai on October 13, 2002, at 23:40:59
In reply to Re: Welcome Tai, posted by GabbiX2 on October 13, 2002, at 12:32:11
Im sorry you are having such a difficult time withdrawing from effexor, believe me I know how that can be. But I think I have a story that should make you laugh or at least smile. So here goes, this is true let me remind you:
Over the summer when I completely dropped off of my zoloft withdrawal symptoms started kicking in. I did not even realize I was going through withdrawal at the time, I figured, these are doctors meds, they do no harm, right? Yeah, wrong. Anyway, I was in Shanghai at the time and my dad had just dropped all this cash for me to study at the university there and I missed the whole first week because I was just feeling like shit, and couldnt even pull myself out of bed. I decided on the monday following the weekend, I had to go no matter what. So alarm goes off monday morning (this may come off as really crude, I hope you don't get disgusted, this is really what happened...) and I grudingly get out of bed. My stomach is upset and I feel like I need to take a big old #2 so I go to the bathroom and sit there for like 25 minutes grunting and sweating but nothing. On top of that I have a severe errection that still has not gone away. So picture if you will, a young man having a fit of anger because he cant shit, and walking around with an errection that won't go away. I mean, is that a legitimate excuse not to go to school; "please excuse me from class today, I have a load of crap in my tummy but cant squeeze out a pebble, and a damn hard on which I cant seem to do anything about"
But on the serious side, I was going crazy. I didnt understand what was happening to me, I mean that is a disturbing situation to have to face first thing in the morning.
Well, if you are still reading, I guess you must have found that at least slightly amusing, and I havent ruined our 3 message relationship.
Let me ask you though, why are you coming off of Effexor? Did it not work for you? How long had you been on and at what dosage? I am only on day 3, but today was not that bad, I could actually function and face the world. I don't know if thats the prozac finally kicking in or the effexor working wonders. Of course, my earlier success now seems so distant, seeing as I am once again unable to sleep. I tossed and turned for two hours, and then finally just got online. Its like when my eyes close my mind just inundates me with all kinds of thoughts and images. I cant even consider one, before 10 more race through my head.
leave a message, I am curios about your experience with effexor. I also noticed that some people go as high as 450 mg, that seems like so much seeing as I am started on the measly dose of 37.5. If this stuff works, do you have to increase the dosage to maintain the benefits?
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