We're gonna get Hyde Park'ed.Jace-BeOS wrote:Getting off Effexor was horrific hell. The addiction is physiologica, not emotional. The drug withdrawal effects emulate the things you supposedly take the drug for and that implies needing it. To get off of it, reduce your dosages very slowly over time. It took me about a year of reduction to get free of it and I still have long term damage from it. I had help. My new (true) friends helped me create smaller doses than what is abailae by prescription and managed my dose measurements (I'm mathematically incompetent). Again: it was horrific hell, but it IS POSSIBLE.
Keep reading the stuff you find online and get a doctor who is willing to work with weening you off, if your current doc won't. Some day, there will be an entry in history about how horrific psych drugging was in our lifetimes.
I complained to my pdoc that the Effexor made me feel like I was coming on to LSD (which was a rather accurate feeling). I'd wander out at lunch and return with a $1200 sampler. A couple years later I was completely broke, hopeless and ended up in hospitalized 3 times before they got the meds stabilized.