Posted by Belle Rose on May 13, 2003, at 1:41:04
I am finally off of Effexor after several attempts on my own. I went to an additive medicine doctor who put me in a detox center. They weaned me off over five days with Klonodine and Phenobartital. Felt great in the hospital but when I came home, I had every horrid symptoms including the brain swishing, electric shocks, headache, couldn't stand the smell of anything, nausea, numbness. My doctor would not give me anything for withdrawal and I hated him but day by day, the symptoms subsided and after one week out of the hospital, the electric shocks stopped. They were the worst. I'm still tired and agitated but some days I feel great. I call Effexor the "drug from hell". I know of drug reps that joke that it used to be called "side fexor" because of the side effects. It should be taken off the market. To this day, I can't even look at the color associated with the box and logo for Effexor. I have such a strong adversion and don't think that anyone should be on a drug that is so hard to come off of.
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