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Posted by lrw on October 3, 2002, at 12:46:58
withdrawal. I had withdrawal from Paxil and now my sister with Effexor. My doc didn't believe that I was having it so bad and that was a over a year ago. Going with my sister to her pdoc yesterday, he thought no way was she having withdrawal from Effexor. Seritonin Syndrom I think it's called. My sisters pdoc said that since she hadn't been on Effexor in 5 days it would be out of her system and that isn't what was wrong with her. I don't get it, why ignore the problem or think that it is something else. I see many people on this site going through the same thing...what gives?
Posted by MJC on October 3, 2002, at 13:03:45
In reply to Why don't some (maybe most) pdoc's believe in SSRI, posted by lrw on October 3, 2002, at 12:46:58
Maybe you guys just don't have very good Pdocs. My Doctor told me from the get-go, before I had even taken one pill of either Effexor or Paxil, that they had some nasty side effects to start up and that withdrawal from either one of them was very bad. She told me never to just stop taking the pill, make sure that I take the pill every day or else you could start to go through withdrawal, and when a time comes to go off of the med to follow her advice very closely. She also told me to call her every day for the first few weeks of taking the drugs to notify her of the side effects just in case something really wasn't going right. When my side effects from Effexor (That whole flue like thing) was really starting up, she phoned me in a prescription right away for Clonazepam and told me that whenever the side effects got too bad to take one of these. Also, that once the Effexor had settled in my body that I should probably start up a daily dosage of the Clonazepam as well.Still to this day if something is going wrong with my medication, all I have to do is phone her and leave a message, and she'll either call me back that day and tell me what to do or make an appointment for me within 48 hours to come in and see her to fix it.
Maybe I just have a good doctor?
Posted by Geezer on October 3, 2002, at 14:35:16
In reply to Re: Why don't some (maybe most) pdoc's believe in SSRI, posted by MJC on October 3, 2002, at 13:03:45
You are blessed, and one of the rare few, to have an honest pdoc. Maybe its too harsh to be so general in my comment re: honesty but they should at least have the opportunity to experience the withdrawal for themselves before making (or failing to make) a statement. IMHO it is difficult to see a patient in sever psychic pain, due to heavy depression, at the same time going through the agony of SSRI withdrawal. If we add to that the insult, "the whole thing is imaginary", that seems to me especially cruel.
You are very fortunate to have found a good one.
Good cheer
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