Posted by SLS on August 3, 2006, at 12:13:21
In reply to Re: Effexor hell!, posted by Oh_Joy on August 3, 2006, at 9:12:38
> You may be right Scott, I really don't know anymore. My thinking as of now, day 6, is I sure as 'heck' am not going back!
I can appreciate wanting to make a clean break from medication.
> The Omega 3 I've been taking seems to reduce the 'zaps'
Well, that's good. I didn't know it could be that helpful.
> but the heavy, swimmy head feeling is going strong.
So far, it sounds like you might be spared the worst type of withdrawal syndrome. That is not to minimize what you are experiencing, but you might not need to restart the medication or use a surrogate drug like Prozac to make living each day tolerable.
> I am back to not sleeping much. I toss an turn all night, but what from what I've been seeing here I really don't want to go back to using Trazodone either.
You still might want to consider using plain Benadryl (without the added decongestant), at least at night to help you sleep. It even helps with the brain zaps.
> I still haven't heard anything about whether the Dexadrine will still work and IF it might actually help with some of these withdrawal symptoms.
If you do hear of anything, I would be interested to know.
Again, good luck.
- Scott
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