Posted by linkadge on February 15, 2006, at 20:53:09
In reply to Re: Suicide on Effexor, posted by Devastated Mother on February 15, 2006, at 17:33:24
The scary part is that it was so difficult to distinguish how the drug was actually be making things worse.
The way I describe it to people is with one word. Intensity. When I took effexor, I still had all of the same problems, but they seemed so much more intense. It was hard to recognize that the effexor was actually making things worse, since the problems I had were still my same old problems, but it seemed like they had been magnified a million times. When I started to taper off (on my own) it slowly felt like a giant weight was starting to be lifted off my shoulders.
For a whole 2 months on it, my sleep was so fragmented. Nightmares, would wake me up every 10 minautes. I felt completely exhausted in the morning. It just felt like a bad trip that never ended. I was told that it was my depression kicking up and the solution ??? Up the dose!Doctors are just not sensitive to these kinds of reactions. They're taught in med school or whatever that these drugs help anxiety and make people happy. Doctors would laugh at me when I told them what I suspected.
Recently, the FDA has started to come to similar conclusions, at least I felt a sence of relief, in that yes, they are starting to acknowledge that the drugs may have potential to do such things. In my own hindsight, there was no question.
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