Posted by msmardigra on February 27, 2005, at 15:01:29
In reply to Re: Redirect: Effexor withdrawal symptoms!, posted by debinfl on February 26, 2005, at 15:36:43
> hi everyone, i am on my second day without effexor. my doctor prescribed me wellbutrin. Has anyone tried this. I am having some of the withdrawal, like dizzy/cloudy head, nausea, itching (oh my gosh, does this drive you crazy?) I am glad to be getting off of this stuff but am not looking forward to what is to come. Why don't doctors tell patients of these withdrawal symptons and let us decide for ourselves whether we choose to feel this way? I am glad that this site is here, otherwise I might be going crazy about now. Debinfl
Hi Deb, and everyone else. I am new to this board but have read almost every post since the first one in 2003 in order to educate myself and learn if I was just crazy or if my feelings as of late were were related to the Effexor. A little history of my Effexor,XR history is this: I began E in Nov. '03 after the sudden, unexpected death of my partner (I have a history of chronic mild depression). At that time my pcp put me on 75mg, and after several months she upped it to 150mg (supposedly to help me sleep). Afer I informed her that I saw no difference between the 75 and the 150mg, she returned me to 75. I began counseling with a social worker in March, 2004 and still go. About 2 months ago my counselor suggested that I see a psych. dr to determine how my meds were interacting together ( I also take Lamictal daily for migraines, and Imatrex and Percoset for when I get headaches). I have had migranes since my teen years (I am now 52) and have battled being overweight since my early 20's. I saw the psydr. last month and gave him a history but also told him I was doing much, now seeing someone, but unhappy with my weight gain and the loss of my sex drive. He suggested I switch from Effexor to Wellbutrin. He gave me samples of 150 mg of the W and gave me a script for 37.5 mg of E, explainig that I would phase the E out as I phased the W in. After one week the W was increased to 300mg and I was to keep taking the new dosage of E for a month. This past Tues. (2/22) I saw the dr again and reported that everything was going great. He told me therefore to quit taking the Effexor, which I did. By the next afternoon I was geeting teary and fussy, and by Friday (day 3) almost all of the symptoms I have read about here had begun (except the eyeball thing). I didn't attribute it to withdrawals since my psycdr had mentioned NOTHING. Howeverafter screaming at my girlfriend yesterday, and crying uncontrollably much of yesterday and then again today from when I woke up until just a couple of hours ago. Fortunately, my gf had thought I was hving withdrawals, and had already gotten online and found this site. Today is Day 5 for me. After catching up, and reading the post of Effexor and Wellbutrin, I felt compelled to join and write this post. So thanks for bearing ith me through this long post, and please know how very grateful I am for each and everyone of you posting about your own experiences with Effexor. Thanks to you, I now understand where all this is coming from.
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