Posted by dancingstar on December 19, 2004, at 23:53:41
In reply to Effexor XL, posted by Mick3000 on December 14, 2004, at 10:46:25
Mick,
My God, I'm so sorry for what you have been through. I don't think that there is much of anything that will take your pain away.
Effexor is a pretty powerful drug, and I don't think it is as safe as the doctors that prescribe it think it is. I was taking it for three years but didn't find out about all the damage that it did to my body until after I stopped taking it...and I only found out then because no one told me that you can't stop taking it suddenly; so I had to look online to figure out what was wrong with me. The more research I did, the more I began to realize that my weight gain, my fatigue, my severe pain, what became arthritis, colitis, neurological damage...all because of Effexor.
You've been through so much with your parents, and you will heal from the emotional scars in time. I know because I lost both of my parents, too, not in the same way...but my dad did die when I was 15, and there weren't antidepressants. Please don't take a chance of injuring your body. It is so precious. I'm in so much pain and have lost three whole years cause I've been too tired to work or barely do much of anything and had no idea why. If I can do anything to talk you out of taking that drug if only because I'm not really sure that it will make you any less depressed anyway, and I'm afraid it will also make you sick...and also cause like MKB said, the withdrawal is absolutely disgusting, I would sure like to try to talk you into trying another way of making it through this.
(Deep sigh)I know it's hard, but is there possibly another option?
Bebe
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