Posted by boatsie on February 20, 2005, at 17:11:37 [reposted on February 21, 2005, at 8:14:31 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Effexor withdrawal symptoms!, posted by Braveheart on February 20, 2005, at 17:03:19
oh it was so good to log into my email and see all these posts. I have been tappering off effexor since june, down from300 mgs and am now at 112.5., this started 1 1/2 weeks ago. I am diagnosed with severe recurrent depression and have been on meds f/t for 10 years. i have oterh drugs to come off once i whip this one
today is the worst day. i feel so depressed and lethargic. my doctor (psychiatrist) is so afraid that i will replapse and that the depressin will rear its head even worse than before ... she speaks of a wildfire in my brain and that this is what i am playing with. i trust my doctor and she has reluctantly supported me through this experience.
i am just really hating myself today. i thoughty the weight wold come off at least a little by now but instead i am eating sweets and drinking coco cola more than ever and smoking! i feel as tho i am trying to destroy myself.i keep thinking that the people who chat here don't have as severe a case as I had .... is there anyone out there who was SEVERELY, at times psychotically depressed?
I have little support, divorced last year (i'm convinced now that all the meds destroyed my marriage) and my daughter is off in college and who wants to worry her? she has some signs of depression emerging now which terrifies me.sorry to vent like this. i just feel terrified and so alone.
> My Doctor here in Scotland wouldn't accept advice off this or any other site so am doing it myself - am down to one 75mg every 2nd day now - but very very angry girl - and was quite down yesterday - it is as if i'm depressed again - but know full well i'm not!!
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> All the best but get straight back to Docs - don't go Cold Turkey!! - its hard enough coming down - i'm down from 225mg a day in a month and thats been hard enough.
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> All the best anyway.
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