UPDATE!

*Breaking news*

Ok so here I am a few months after I posted about running away from Effexxor. Well I moved about 2 hours from my old psychiatrists office. And last monday came to relise I was out of Effexxor XR all together. So as usual I went to get it refilled. NADA! My doc refused to refill it, said I needed to make an appointment before he would. So I said "ok, well im almost 2 hrs away from your office now and im looking for a new doc in my area. could you refill it one last time so I may get into a new doctor" They told me "NO the doctor wont authorize it until you come in for a visit"

Nice... here I am living off this stuff because my body is physically addicted to it and now I cant get it filled with out a 4 hour round trip drive, and an extra 40 copay.

So being pissed off I just said , nevermind then. And hung up. I promptly called a new doc and luckily got into see him last friday. Well my last dose of effexxor was tuesday, it was suppose to be filled friday but my insurance decided they needed a doctors authorization directly in order to fill it. Ya know cause the 200 other times they did wasnt good enough. Well by this time doctors office was closed. So no meds for me still. Ya I could beg to get a few pills from the pharmacy but they love to charge me double co-pay on the prescription once fully filled. I was too proud and angry to pay all this extra money so I sat it out.

Ok so lets see, 6 days cold turkey, went from 375mg to 0.... I'm sick like suspected, havnt slept in a few days, and all the other withdrawl symptoms you could imagine. I hate being a slave to this stuff, I think the fact that feeling sick or not is all up to another human being making a decision is too much for me. (The guy jacked me all the way up to 375mg without warning me about what it takes to walk away and now wont help me out)

So any idea on how long Im going to be sick? Im about to give in and take it but if all I gotta do is hang on a few more days and im out of the woods this might be my chance!

~Mark~