Posted by JL on August 28, 2009, at 0:28:50
In reply to Lexapro to Pristiq and how do they compare?, posted by JL on August 21, 2009, at 17:41:56
After a mere five days on Pristiq, I'm going through Effexor Hell all over again. After the Hell I went through with Effexor, my doctors are aware that I was going to miss a dose in order to see what would happen. I was planning on missing the dose this weekend but, as fate would have it, I missed last night after just five doses of it.
Well...I'm in Effexor Hell all over again - my head is spinning and I'm extremely nauseous - all less than 24 hours after I missed the dose (of Pristiq).
What is just a disturbing is that as I was trying to find out what other's experiences were with Pristiq (especially since Effexor is the drug from Hell and I had SEVERE problems going off of that several years ago), I decided to post questions on different sites (Dr. Bob's has always been one of the best).
Well, on http://www.depressionforums.org
an idiot (Deepster) attacked me because he didn't like what I said about my personal experiences with Effexor (and Deepster even admitted he had never used it). To compound matters, one of their forum adminstrators also warned me that I can't complain about drugs or an idiot doctor (who was never named) that caused me to land in the emergency room and refused to answer emergency phone calls about Effexor withdrawals. That forum administrator then CENSORED my post. Do NOT use Depression Forums dot com if you want real help.
I'm going through Pristiq withdrawals now - I only hope that they don't take MONTHS to stop like Effexor did.
Something MUST be done about drugs like Effexor and Pristiq that cause so many SEVERE problems.
poster:JL
thread:913371
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20090826/msgs/914480.html