Posted by Bonnie_CA on April 29, 2006, at 2:20:12
In reply to Re: Redirect: getting off effexor, posted by Toby on April 14, 2006, at 14:24:58
Overall, after my year on the medicine( and the year previous to that I was on zoloft) it is truy amazing to see how many people are on these medications unnecessarily. I'm certainly not a doctor but it seems like these meds are extremely overprescribed.
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I agree, many people don't need to be on them. There are people like me that really cannot function without them. I've tried. I wish I didn't have to take medications. The last time I tried stopping meds was in 2003, and it was a mess once the withdrawels stopped (from paxil). I was a raging bitch, and I didn't want to go anywhere. I was my grandma! She never went anywhere and she was really mean to most everyone. I can't believe how much I take after her. I am on effexor now, and hopefully I won't have to stop, but I've read that prozac helps people get off other meds a lot.
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