Posted by ChipW on May 20, 2001, at 16:06:25
In reply to Re: Effexor Withdrawal Diary , posted by Sunie on May 11, 2001, at 12:11:45
First, let me apologize for a mistake. The post titled Days 8 and 9 should have been 9 and 10.
Essentially, I went from 150mg Effexor XR to nothing in ten days, including several days of 10mg Prozac.
My advice for others trying to get off is to start the Prozac a couple days before you reduce your dose, then taper the Effexor rapidly.
In the time since day 10, I have had several episodes with the "dizzyness" symptom. The most recent one was yesterday and lasted several hours.
One thing that really sticks out to me is that the physical withdrawal symptoms from Effexor are quite severe compared to other drugs. I have explored many illegal psychoactive drugs, including Marijuana, LSD, Psylocibin and MDMA. I have never encountered the severity of withdrawal symptoms that I have gone through with Effexor; even after months of daily use of Marijuana. Effexor did absolutely nothing to help me while I was on it, as far as I and others were able to determine. My opinion is that this drug is at best useless with terrible side-effects, and at worst could be permanently damaging to the user's brain.
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