Posted by Fathe on February 13, 2005, at 8:08:42
In reply to Back at work with effexor withdrawal., posted by Laura Lynn on February 10, 2005, at 14:02:40
You are doing excellent!!! I chuckled a bit about your garage door experience as I had a totally different incident but it too was caused from withdrawal also. But looking back, it makes me chuckle now too.
I pretty much trashed my laptop out of severe withdrawal rage. One day my laptop here at home had locked up and after trying several minutes to fix it the normal way and failed, I began stamping on it, throwing it etc...pieces bagan to chip off it ---I was a maniac and, no surprise, it then became totally broken. The bad thing was that my job issued me the laptop for work on production support at night (I am a programmer) and for some reason they believed me when I told them that I dropped it on the train. I am sure if I told them the truth, that is was drug withdrawal rage and could happen any time, I would be unemployed right now. They ended up giving me another one because by then, they even could not fix it. I felt terrible and sneaky but it was a matter I had no other way to mitigate.. But very embarrassing.
That scary level of intense distructive rage was a one shot deal (thank goodness) but highly agitated feelings did occur on and off throughout the first 2 weeks of my withdrawal. I tried to stop Effexor last year and after a week the out of control rage was so bad that it scared me back into thinking I was cracking up and still needed to take it. Ultimately I went back on Effexor as a result. After finding this forum this past January and saw how many others experienced rage as one of their symptoms, I decided to try the withdrawal again and deal with it. My last Effexor was January 7th . As you see the laptop was a victim of this attempt but I am now pretty much through the worst of the withdrawal, the emotions have leveled off and all of the other physical symptoms (zaps, eye problems, freqeunt nausea, nightmares) have also evened out to barely there. I feel 1000% better.
You will too. I guarantee it.
poster:Fathe
thread:455917
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20050212/msgs/457088.html