Posted by mattking2000 on February 4, 2001, at 10:02:39
I took effexor xr for over a year. This has been a pain in the a** to post. But I feel its important to tell people you can get off this drug and go back to normal. I took 75 to 150 mg a day. The withdrawl was horrible because I tried to go cold turky at first. Puked, felt horrilbe, could do nothing. Then I tried lots of dramimine and 1 prozac a day for a week and this help very much. I would not recommend this drug. Its not worth it. I didn't find it to work all that well and the withdrawl was hell. It took about 2 weeks. The fact sheet for this drug says nothing about addiction or withdrawl they lie do not trust the drug companies with your happiness. They just want to sell the drug and get you on it they do not care about what happens after. And my doctor knew less about this drug than I did from looking it up in the library. Feel free to contact me if you are coming off it. Good luck.
Matt
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