Posted by tracyunverzagt on July 5, 2006, at 13:03:30 [reposted on July 5, 2006, at 22:39:29 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Withdrawl HELL from Effexor » tracyunverzagt, posted by Emme on July 5, 2006, at 9:27:23
> Was your taper gradual enough? What was your lowest dose before stopping? You may need to go back on a low dose and continue to taper with increasingly tiny fragments of a tablet. Some doctors use prozac temporarily to help with discontinuation symptoms.
Yeah, I think i tapered right. I had originally been taking 350mg, and over three months, I would go down by 75 mg. at a time, and when I got to 75, I stayed on that for 3 weeks, went to half of that for two weeks, and then half of a half for a week, then stopped, I was at like 17 mgs.
I am afraid to take something to help with the symptoms, because I don't want to trade one for the other. I have been on antidepressants since I was 20 and am now 42, you name it, I tried it. The effexor worked for the three years, but I was feeling like a zombie, no ambition, no energy, NO sex drive, which hurt my husband. Now I am wondering if it's worth trying to go off of...I never ever had effects like this from anything else. What a failure it makes me.
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