Posted by miracles on March 25, 2005, at 0:16:35
In reply to Effexor, posted by gromit on March 24, 2005, at 1:46:25
Hi Gromit,
I had a horrible time when I stopped taking Effexor, and I had never had any sort of problems before. Granted, I never took any other AD.
In my humble opinion Effexor is way overprescribed. If there is any way that you can avoid taking it, I would. It made me very sick.
I am not exactly sure if someone really heals from having taken it cause it seems to me like so many people who take Effexor need to take some kind of AD to feel okay for the rest of their lives even if they weren't depressed when they started to take it. It doesn't seem like there are a lot of people that just stop taking it and never take another AD afterwards. I asked my pharmacist about this, and he said that he rarely sees people that stop taking Effexor.
Good luck with whatever you decide.
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