Effexor YUCK!

[pinkroses]

I have been on that for 2 years now. I find it very helpful to me. I suffer from depression, am a diabetect. Have arthrisis. IBM ,severe refluxe disease. This drug has help me with my stomach problems. My gastrosgoist. (sp) recomends this too. Anyways what helps with one person may not be good for another. Sometimes, it just takes to trying a diffeterent kind of medicine to help you. pinkroses.

 

[mini_mim]

Hi, I am on Effexor, and I wish I had never started on it, although it has helped my anxiety. I have no side-effects but the withdrawal is horrendous. I take it in the evening and if I forget to take it one day, I can tell within a moment of waking the next morning. I went on holiday earlier in the year and miscounted how much I needed, and was off it for less than three days and I felt so horrendous I just wanted to curl up and die. When I got to the supermarket to get my prescription they told me it would be a two hour wait and I just stood there in the middle of the store and cried.

However, the lack of side effects when I'm on it, mean I will not be coming off it intentionally for a while, withdrawal aside, as I have had bad side effects from other things.

I took Prozac when I was 15 and had hallucinations, vivid nightmares, flashbacks and memories of things that had never actually happened. If I hadn't been suicidal already, I would have been after a course of that.....

And just a few weeks ago in hospital they prescribed me Amitryptyline to help me get better sleep, on the lowest dose, and it completely messed me up. I had really intense paranoia and became suicidal for the first time in years. I was only on it for three days and I am still not fully back to normal.

So for me, Effexor seems to be the best of a bad lot, I am down from 225mg to 75mg, and would like to be able to come off it altogether, but I am ill enough already with ME/CFS, that I really don't need the withdrawal.

 

[HeyJupiter]

The withrawals you get from Effexor are sure horrible

BUT your not supposed to foret to take them, so u shouldn have those affects (i know everyone forgets sometimes though)

I was on zoloft for a few years, last year i increased my dose to 150mg and started going downhill alot, my slep was horrible, i put on heaps of weight, and i had foggy mind

then i went on effexor and while the withdrawal was horrible and itwas horrible at the start, its truley worked wonders, its helped my sleeping significantly,