[monochromatic]

Took my last Effexor Saturday night.

- Sunday : fine
- Monday : uncontrollable crying at work. Had to go home at 8am. Spent the day in bed, hypo and unable to sleep in the evening.
- Tuesday (Today) : fine this morning, hypo by 1pm - 5pm, uncontrollable crying from 6pm to 8pm. And now I just want to be absorbed by my mattress and disappear.

I'm just exhausted. Absolutely exhausted. And all I can think is that this is it... Nothing is ever going to get better. I'm driving away everyone I love. Boyfriend is in the living room now taking a breather from me because I'm a ball of neediness.

On lamotrigine 100mg, but thats it. The effexor was making me mixed, but the withdrawl is probably worse than the drug was.

I was still on an ssri (luvox) when I went off effexor but I still had the moodiness. I have read though that going off effexor is hell and that people fire their pdocs for ever putting them on it in the first place because of the withdrawls. I feel for you and can only say eventually it goes away but it takes a while. I had to warn my hub before I started going off of it what was probably going to happen. Look up crazy meds.us for information, that might help.

[monochromatic]

Thank you so much emomom. I just needed to hear it from someone else.

[BlueInanna]

Sounds miserable, like my withdrawals from cymbalta . I went cold turkey & didn't tell pdoc ... Is there a way you could taper down off the stuff? Might be safer.

[vans1974]

Hey monochromatic- sorry to hear you're struggling! Sounds like you're rapid cycling or in a mixed state or both. Either way, I'd check with you're doc about adding an AAP (Atypical Antipsychotic) like Latuda! Then, increase you're Lamictal! At 400mg-600mg it has anti-depressant properties. If you still want to take an AD, ck with your doc, I love Welbutrin SR. Best of luck!!

[czarina1984]

I've been stuck in a rapid cycling state for almost a week so I feel your pain. The thing I try to keep in mind is that it will end shortly and be something different to deal with. Its always changing. Call your pdoc and see what they can do. Hope it gets better for you.

Effexor is HELL to come off for some people. It will take a fair few weeks for your brain chemicals to sort their **** out. I will never ever ever go on that class of drugs again. The withdrawls from that was like NOTHING I have ever been through before, nothing like normal SSRI withdrawls. It is tough, really really tough. Hold on, it will pass after a while, then you just have the normal BP to worry about... but honestly that is better than Effexor withdrawls, so it does get better.

[monochromatic]

Thanks everybody! Yeah Supanova, I totally agree with you.

I think that at this point, it's just withdrawl/detoxing. I might be rapid cycling or mixed, but ultimately - I think this is in a class of it's own. Nothing to do but take care of myself day to day, take benadryl when it gets too bad, and just wait for the storm to pass.

Today was a better day though. I fought the sobbing and the sobbing lost.

[Victoria'smom]

Effexor was hell to get off of at that time I wasn't on a moos stabilizer. So I flew into a suicidal mess, then it didn't help when I called GP he was frustrated and told me "just stop taking it than". Worse 2 weeks of my life. I was to embarrassed after to ever go back to him.