Posted by Alara on September 2, 2002, at 6:17:11
In reply to Re: Long term effects of Effexor/permanent » Sahara, posted by simone on August 27, 2002, at 18:40:12
Hang in there! I stopped taking my daily 75mg of Effexor almost two weeks ago and am only just staring to feel `normal' again. Yes, I went cold turkey, and I wouldn't recommend that anyone else tries this without first consulting his/her doctor.
Two days after my last dose, I rushed home early, convinced that I was having some kind of unprecedented attack of psychosis. (Have never been psychotic before and yet I was feeling so paranoid and anxious at work, that I thought that they were labeling me as `mad'.) I headed straight to bed with feelings of severe nausea and anxiety. I called in sick the next day and divided my weekend time between the toilet and the bucket under my bed...:-) One minute I was sweating, the next I was so cold that I couldn't get warm under my continental quilt.
Five days after my last dose, I started to feel like my true self again. The nausea became more intermittent and I was regaining some of my appetite. The electric shock feelings were the worst: They started in nerves located at my extremities (mainly fingers) and shot through my body, culminating in a yawning kind of sensation in my ears. Still, I knew by then that I was getting better and this gave me the courage to get through,
Tomorrow is the two-week anniversary of my last Effexor dose. I feel that I am finally regaining contact with the person that I was before I started this drug. The electric shocks are the only aspect of the withdrawal that bother me now - and they are becoming less and less troublesome each day.
Hang in there. Many of us know exactly how you feel. You will be OK.
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