Posted by dancingstar on October 24, 2004, at 18:47:45
In reply to Life after effexor-Depression??? to Bartel and Co, posted by Jubilee on October 24, 2004, at 15:44:33
It's now been three and a half weeks for me, and I was still having a tough time a couple of days ago. Though I almost never got headaches, for over two days, I had what must have been a migraine. That combined with the almost month-long stomach problems was beginning to give me the psych problems that I didn't originally have ;-).
Deperation drove me to try a couple of things that I hadn't yet. First, I bought a child's dosage of Benadryl. With fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue I was afraid to take the Benadryl, but it works so very well. It knocked out the headache and nausea instantly, and I could go on with my life. The smallest possible dose works, and I take more when I need it. "It's a miracle." Honest. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
SamE - I'll be darn. Killed the brain fog better than anything else.
I was talking with a friend of mine that also studies nutrition, but she's been doing it more recently than I have and she's been taking this stuff daily. When we were growing up, her family owned a local health food store; so I should have known that she'd come up with something great. I took it yesterday and today, and my head is pretty happy.
Whey - I added some whey protein powder to my oatmeal in the a.m. cause it does make sense to me that the Effexor byproducts bind to the whey and can be swept away and out of the body.
When I told my friend what I was doing about w/drawing from the Effexor cold turkey, she commented that I probably felt as good as I do (as bad as it seemed to me) because of all of the supplements that I have been taking and the kinds of foods that I've been eating. I do think that she is right. It could be so much worse. These products, some of them, the SamE 400 mg, the Omega3, the 5-HTP, CoQ10-100, the Enzymatic Therapy from Fatigued to Fantastic, the Adrenal Support, EmergenC, an AM and PM vitamin, tons of water, oats, a little bit of salmon and brown rice and organic veggies and the smallest amount of fresh fruit, an apple may be all I can tolerate; but this is enormously expensive. If someone doesn't know enough to do or take these things and to get some exercise if you aren't too sick, how can people get through this with their bodies and minds intact? Oh, yeah, and the most important thing of all: enough time to rest and let your body heal.
You know, I went out last night, and I was around many others that are supposed to be my age, maybe even several years younger than I am. It really shows when people don't respect their bodies and minds. I think that there is a lot of research that has been done which shows that while genetics comes into play to some degree with regard to our health, there is a tremendous amount that we can do to influence the way we look and feel throughout our lifetime. It seems like such a waste to me to see how people ruin perfect health by lifestyle choices that destroy it. Maybe that's one of the reasons that I get so grumpy with the makers of these drugs who continue to grow huge profits by incorrectly marketing drugs to the wrong patients therby posing a serious risk to our health. How dare they? It is so very precious.
By the way, if anyone cares, this is the kind of thing that "they" are trying to stop you from being allowed to sue for, not that I was planning on it anyway.
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