Posted by Camille Dumont on May 23, 2005, at 22:21:50
In reply to Re: Effexor, does anyone just feel supressed? » Camille Dumont, posted by 4WD on May 20, 2005, at 15:50:49
> > As for the withdrawal from Effexor, its pretty much the worse one in terms of ADs. I did what all doctors tell you not to do : go from 300 to 0 in one shot. Its not pretty, believe me. You get nightmares so bad that you,re afraid to sleep, panic attacks, nausea, the shakes, sweating, very strong suicidal thoughts, feelign like you want to hurt people for the slightest thing etc.
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> Hi. I wonder if you could answer a couple of questions. Every time I tried to switch from Effexor to a different AD, I became extremely anxious, panicky, scared. I'd go right back to Effexor because of it. I've had this happen with Paxil, Cymbalta and Celexa. (actually a few years ago I switched from Eff to Celexa and was fine). But recently I've been off Effexor for 3 months and I'm still having the scaredness and anxiousness - have to treat it with a benzo.
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> When I was on Effexor, I felt very smoothed out. No strong emotion, couldn't cry.
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> How long did it take before the Effexor withdrawal scaredness went away for you? Do you think it's possible for it to go on for months?
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> Marsha
>Unfortunately, yes it can and for me did take months. To give you an idea, I took my last Effexor sometime last July and it was well after x-mas that I felt completely free of it. That is the mood swings stopped, the anxiety and panic attacks were completely gone.
Perhaps it would help if you overlap with one AD to another. That is, take the effexor, start taking the new AD waiting a couple of weeks for it to kick in properly and then remove Effexor. It could take care of the worst that Effexor brings on when you withdraw from it.
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