Posted by Miriamne on June 10, 2006, at 9:41:50
In reply to Re: Anyone had success on Effexor XR?, posted by thorthena on June 9, 2006, at 19:35:31
I had read all the posts about how hard it was to withdraw from Effexor, so when I was extremely careful to taper off soooooo gradually... I mean, I opened each capsule and took out just a few BEADS at a time, stayed on that amount for a few days, then reduced again, all very carefully.
The first day I went completely without the drug, I started to have crushing headaches (I mean, the kind where your head really feels like it's being somehow compressed-- ugh!), nausea, disorientation, dizziness; my mood plummeted and then began swinging from anxious to depressed to agitated in the extreme. This went on at one level or another for 3 or 4 WEEKS.
I am now struggling to find another med/solution to a profound depression with terrible anxiety and agitation. I originally went off the Effexor because I felt exhausted by years of racing thoughts and feeling "wound up". I was taking Lamictal and Effexor for BP2, and coming off the Effexor was an attempt to eliminate something I thought might be causing the agitation.
I'm not sure what's going to do the trick now... but the withdrawal experience from Effexor certainly didn't help things.
poster:Miriamne
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