Posted by ceecee on November 20, 2003, at 12:15:05
In reply to Re: Efexor XR - Long Term Withdrawal - Anyone Else?, posted by KatieUK on November 19, 2003, at 18:54:23
Hi Katie
It seems you are one of the lucky people who don't need any med and you have - mistakenly not knowing about side-effects of course - started with the efexor.
I hope and pray for you that you will gradually reduce and then stop the med.
In your situation I would try first to wait for some hours more before taking the next dose untill you're able to maybe take it every second day or even less.
To take a med to cure the side-effects of itself and not because of the depression seems really insane.
In my own case the situation didn't give me any other option than to start a med. Before I started it I was suffering of depression for over 10 years and I can say I was fed up. To start the efexor was my last option before thinking of ending it all up.
In that kind of a situation I felt good with the decision of taking a med and the question was only: which one?
I think it would help you a lot if you acept that you started it and you kind of "forgive" yourself and the doctor for "not knowing it better".
I think finding peace with the situation will help the side-effects to vanish faster.
As I red the statements about efexor-withdrawl I said to myself: When you started it you had a reason. Now you have a reason to stop it. Ok just do it slowly and the side-effects will pass sooner or later.
As I accepted the situation it seemed the side-effects got a lot easier to take and they started to be rarer!
Just try that. Good luck!
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