Posted by winddancer on April 8, 2005, at 2:52:04
In reply to Re: About the Effexor XR Withdrawal » winddancer, posted by SLS on April 8, 2005, at 2:01:56
Hi Scott,
I don't know what these symptoms are from -although the tingling and restless legs seem to be worse when I'm further away from my last dose of 12.5mg - taking the other half seems to help a little bit but the tingling and restless legs seems to never go away entirely. I don't know if I posted that I recently learned that I am very anemic (low iron in blood) and my dr. thinks that if my muscles aren't getting enough oxygen (carried by the hemoglobin), it could cause them to ache and hurt. I also have been getting some diagnosis of my SI joint pain and an MRI and chiro manipulation confers that I have some scoliosis and spinal discs that are very squished between the vertebre and immobile [but not yet fused]and it could cause some nerve impingment, and thus numbness - a spine specialist will be evaluating the MRI next week. Also I'm getting an evaluation from a dr who does prolotherapy. Have you or anyone ever heard of that?? If not, I'll explain or post a website.
In many ways I feel I've been somewhat successful in weaning down to no more than 25mg/day of the Effexor. If I keep my mind busy and engaged in a mental or physical activity, I can go further between doses but as evening approaches the symtoms seem to crop up - not allowing me to eliminate the 2nd half of the 25mg tablet. I no longer get the headaches or the sweats or constipation and the Chinese herbs are addressing those issues.
Winddancer
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