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Posted by xpgroover on November 9, 2001, at 22:43:20
I am a 36yowf withdrawing from Effexor XR @ 37.5mg qod secondary to pregnancy. My therapeutic dosage was most days--- 37.5mg and occasionally 75mg--esp. PMS time. I am going through so much hell right now, light sensitivity, extreme agitation, muscle twitches all over, esp. legs and deltoids when in bed, insomnia, flu-like aches in my bones, I am totally whacked out and there is nothing I can do except today I decided that I would stop the withdrawal and take it qd until I see my OB doc Monday am. It frightens me to no end that a medicine can be so addictive--it is imbedded in every nerve and fiber of my being to the point that I cannot even properly withdraw. This seems so wrong. It has been a good medicine for most days I felt almost not depressed. However, it is a category C for pregnancy and my last Pregnancy I was on Paxil the whole time, I believe it is a category B. I may just have to switch but I wanted to try and withdraw and since Oct 29 I have tried to no avail. This is good for us to help each other mentally here since doctors are so ignorant of the withdrawal and therefore honestly do not warn you because they are clueless and since we're already labelled as psych cases, our information isn't deemed reliable. Good luck, and do like me...remember that these bad times are temporary!
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