Posted by Devastated Mother on February 19, 2006, at 4:14:54
In reply to Re: Suicide on Effexor, posted by linkadge on February 18, 2006, at 18:04:13
My son was taking the effexor exactly as prescribed. The coroner checked for appropriate traces in his system. So sometimes, even though you are taking drugs exactly the way the doctor prescribed them, they can be deadly.
When you know all the risks of the particular drug you are taking, then you can, of course, take them more effectively. The withdrawal effects are listed right on the insert, so I assume you knew what you would be facing before starting to go off them.????
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> Just to clarify, I always used drugs as prescribed. The crashing I got from ritalin/effexor, was crashing after theraputic doses wore off.
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> For the most part I have been off drugs, but I do like to stay connected with doctors since sometimes I might need a sleeping pill or the like.
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> People need to hear real stories. If people only believe what a doctor tells them about a drug, then they won't be hearing the whole story.
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