Posted by mvenable on February 19, 2004, at 13:07:56
This is long, but please bear with me.
How long will this last???? Please someone let me know. I have been off effexor cold turkey for two weeks and I am so dizzy right now I think I might fall out of this chair. This has been going on for over two weeks, how much longer can I expect this s*%t to continue? I never would have quit cold turkey, but I had absolutely NO IDEA at all that this was going to happen.
I am a 27 year old mother of two. I had never taken an anti-depressent in my life until about 6 mos ago when I was given effexor to deal with some post partum anxiety and depression. (I was referred for a medical visit to a psychiatrist by my OB.) The only thing the bi*#@h said was, "Make sure you don't go out of town without this medicine." That was it. If I had any idea of what would happen with withdrawals, I would have NEVER taken this medicine!@
I've been feeling a little spaced out on effexor lately, so I decided I would let my prescription run out and ask my Primary Care Physician, (who I see regularly for polycystic ovarian syndrome) what I should do at my Feb 24th appt.
This was about two weeks ago, and I have been plunged into a living hell that will not stop. The saddest thing is until two days ago when I googled "Effexor Side Effects" I had no idea what was wrong. I had googled "inner ear infection" before because the spells of intense dizziness were (and still are) driving me crazy
Before I pieced all this together, I wrecked my truck and ran into a wall while carrying my 8 month old, leaving a huge knot on his head. This was all caused because of these sudden overwhelming dizzy spells I have been having.
I am nauseated all the time and have horrible headaches off and on. I am just really getting scared because it has been two weeks and IT IS NOT GETTING BETTER! I have tried dramamine and benadryl with little if any results.
How can a dr., who took an oath to do no harm, give you this drug and not say a word about the potential side effects, withdrawals????
How can government agencies who are supposed to protect us let a drug like this be on the market? Why don't we just sell crack and heroin legally????
Sorry to rant, but you just cannot comprehend how this has caught me offguard.
Any information, encouragement would be appreciated.
poster:mvenable
thread:315665
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