Posted by Jubilee on October 4, 2004, at 20:17:59
In reply to Question for you both..., posted by Colleen D. on October 3, 2004, at 21:02:21
Hi Colleen,
It's hard to believe they gave you effexor for anxiety, and I am wondering if I understood you right? Effexor causes anxiety, hypermania, and agitation. You might want to read the effexor petition as its very informative. http://www.petitiononline.com/effexor/ . I had every side effect except the high blood pressure. Very dangerous and NOT everybody has bad withdrawals. It might also depend on how long you have been on it. I sure don't know everything but I have been on it 4 years to loose weight from elivil and continue treating my depression, elivil being the safest anti dep. I have ever been on and saved my life from 13 years of agitated chronic depression, with severe suisidal tendencies with out it. I lived a pretty happy normal but chubby life life and thank God for that drug. I don't know about these new modern drugs...as elivil was discovered in 52(the year of my birth) as a TB med that was bringing people out of depression, and it has no withdrawals and helps you sleep and stay calm. God healed me of severe chronic depression on 7-7-02 and I only stayed on the effexor because in trying to go off twice I almost got locked up the first time with triple vision, blacking out in the middle of sentences, manic, and physical problems,and the second time I had a mild stroke going too fast off it so I gave up, until one day I found the petition and this babble site and got hope ,in getting my life back. I have been on seriquil to sleep as long as I have been on effexor and thought I was just having one of my mania difficulties. It just never went away. Effexor gave me hypermania!. I have been on so many different types of meds for different mental issues as a woman who bagan healing from them on 7-7-02 and I speak only from my experience. Fortunatly I have become very eduicated on alot of diff meds by experience.. It was a miricle due to prayer ,so thats why I know the date. I am off almost all psych meds since my healing began and I've done alot of recovery work. I just got syuck on this effexor!
Anti dep's usually make your thyroid stop working in time and that happened to me in 94. I entered a dark hell of wanting to kill myself daily, despite my meds and after 6 months discovered my thyroid quit and that med took me back to normal treatable depression.
In answer to your question, I went from 300mg after 6 months on that raised dose down to 75mg's twice a day for 3 weeks and did'nt have many side affects. Been at this over 2 months and my last drop to a 75am and a 37.5pm made me sick like the flu and an outrageous additude and then I realized I had to take some prozac again.
So I took 2 prozac and some sleep med that day and I felt much much better. I used the prozac before when I dropped for 5 days until my body adjusted to it, using the same principal that I learned from my babble friends about taking 7 days of prozac when you go entirely off.
I wrote a bit long hoping to help others also. Also , I understand that they are giving people paxil for panic attacks, and thats another dangerous one I hear, and I had a bad problem with panic attacks in the late 80's. tMental Health gave me a heart med called inderal, pretty harmless, that I only took when I went to certain 12 step recovery meetings that would trigger them. Heart would race and I'd sweat and shake and I looked like I had the darn dt's. Ha!!!
Anyway, I hope this has helped. By the way, I can't remember what OCD/anxiety is. OCD? PPD?and GAD? Like to know. Take care, Jubilee.
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