Posted by ariel on July 29, 2005, at 16:22:16
In reply to Re: Effexor XR withdrawals » ariel, posted by angelbean on July 27, 2005, at 14:36:19
as i posted to scott, i simply can't handle prolonged dizziness/nausea. i'd rather have a red hot poker through the eye. what i defined as brain zaps were more like, i don't know, short, intense vertigo incidents. that was on top of the generalized dizziness. anyways, it was all too much.
i am totally, totally with you, ab, re feeling so great about being free of the dependency. anything you can do to rely on yourself and your own strengths is so much better in the long run. we all got taken in by the drug companies who pushed the stuff and the health care plans that pushed even harder. i firmly believe that there are certain people who <should> be on antidepressants for life. i don't think that many of us qualify. certainly very few doctors bother to do the tests required to find out. and it ain't that hard. my therapist, based on what i told her about my depressions, felt that i never had a chemical imbalance to begin with, that i didn't have some genetic predisposition. if she had been the one i talked with back in 1994, that's what my therapy would've been --talk therapy. i had the luck of the draw at my HMO to end up with a shrink who could prescribe and couldn't wait to get me on prozac. which, btw, i loved. only it stopped working after 4 months. i should've gotten the hint. i didn't see a psychologist until my present one in 2001.
anyways, my primary is one of those who feels that my being prescribed effexor back in late 94 was medically necessary. only he doesn't have my history of it. it's the usual case of docs not wanting to slam other docs. but he'll help me get off it. as i said earlier, i can wait for 2 years. being on the pill isn't so much a burden, or a blow to my self esteem, as it's something i feel is superfluous.
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