Posted by sl on July 16, 2001, at 16:55:04
In reply to EffexorXR to WellbutrinSR, posted by Simcha on July 16, 2001, at 9:50:52
(I can't belive nobody else answered you yet!)
Yes, you're probably right about crashing off Effexor. When I went off Effexor, it took me a week to feel normal again, felt dizzy and fluish for a while, with random muscle twitches that lasted past the illness and went away gradually.
Hopefully you'll have a time like I did, I've heard of some others that had it much worse when they came off Effexor.Wellbutrin will probably give you the "speed" feeling too, for me it went away after about 3 days. I can't speak to your situation going directly from Effexor to Wellbutrin, since I tried something else in between. Sorry.
Don't feel silly about withdrawing to the car occasionally, at least you went! Lots of us sit home all the time. You did what you had to do to get through it. :)
sl
> Ok, I'm on day 6 of this journey. This morning I feel like I'm on speed. I've had my EffexorXR 75mg dose and at noon I will take my 100mg WellbutrinSR dose.
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> My hands are shaking a little bit. The energy charge is great for knocking out this morning work here at the office so I don't mind. I've read that these effects are temporary and I'm going through Effexor withdrawal.
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> I fell asleep at 7pm last night and I got up at 6:30am. That's 11.5 hrs of sleep!!!! YIKES!!! I think that my system is crashing on the Effexor withdrawal...perhaps?
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> I went to a dance Saturday night and I just could not be around all those people all night. I took breaks by going out to the car to lay down. I felt a little silly about it but it was the way I felt. I'm a introvert by nature but I'm not normally socio-phobic.
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> Oh well. I just need some support now. I want to believe that I will make it through this without too many problems....
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