Posted by leisha on November 19, 2003, at 14:55:21
In reply to Efexor XR - Long Term Withdrawal - Anyone Else?, posted by Paul Mokeski on April 25, 2002, at 13:57:24
Well, I can certainly pull rank on most of you! I've been on Efexor for 6 and a half years and am grateful for the help it has been - BUT! Boy is it impossible to get off without other medication ( Prozac?? That was fun before the efexor - the screaming habdabs after about 6 days.) I have tried every combination of gradual withdrawal and sudden too and have experienced nearly all you have felt (but NOT all -yet!) Yes, nightmares after even just the first half-dose, IBS that Colofac,loperamide and codeine together wouldn't touch, flu symptoms, no temperature control, headache, wobbliness etc etc.And that awful self awareness which is the opposite of carefree, the unwilling monitoring of how nasty I'm beginning to feel again.
But these in different combinations each time I dropped down. So angry I could tear myself apart or explode - this time so terribly miserable and as usual hypochondriacal.
And so you go back to flatlining emotionally and weary and not achieving just to feel physically healthy ( but oh! so constipated and farty!!)
And has the brain been changed chemically by the efexor so that it can't be happy or calm without it?
Thanks for listening - I hope you feel you're one of a very big normal group.
poster:leisha
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