Posted by Phil on April 27, 2002, at 7:28:08
In reply to Efexor XR - Long Term Withdrawal - Anyone Else?, posted by Paul Mokeski on April 25, 2002, at 13:57:24
Did you switch to another drug. I wonder why you didn't taper off Effexor. Prozac has a very long half-life. I wonder if you might benefit from a small script for Prozac.
My psychopharmacologist at the time went thru a lot of combos w/ me. I had been on Paxil for years but he would just roll from one drug to the other, no withdrawal. I was allergic to Effexor; pruritus; I itched very badly from 8-10 every night (really). When I told him, he said we've got to stop it now, the itch won't go away. He just went right into something else, no prob.
I really recommend psychopharm's over family MD's.
To give you an example, a woman I work with was on 100 mg Prozac with 20 mg Celexa, not good.
I printed some things from babble for her and she stopped the Celexa that night. Gotta be careful.Sorry this is so long,
Phil
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