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Mar 18, 2014, 01:15 PM
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Day 8 of no venlafaxine, had a really great week last week. lots of clarity about stuff I needed to change in my for the better,
really feeling so much better since the discontinuation syndrome I had 3 weeks and then wham ... It started Friday I just started to feel really tired and by Sunday all I wanted to do was sleep. I was in no mood for st patricks day celebrations but I stuck it out. thou if I fight the urge to sleep I get the brain zaps, shifting, dizziness. Pretty much always have the heavy head again. Yesterday I was just irritable unable to stay awake ... like how is it possible for one person to sleep so much ? really ? Today Im just an emotional wreck, I'm breaking down crying with frustration, so tired, emotional, agitated. and I mean crying, sobbing like a baby until I'm almost hyperventilating my head feels like its made of metal and Im inside an MRI machine so its both imploding and exploding. I'm just so miserable I thought I was over this, wtf is going on ?? is it because its now totally out of my system ??
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Mar 18, 2014, 01:30 PM
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I had the samething happen to me yesterday and its probably because i stopped my meds too...hope you feel better
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Mar 18, 2014, 01:48 PM
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thanks Gina, poor hubby doesnt know what to do but everytime I look at him I break down crying cos I feel like Im such a mess and failure right now.
I just keep saying " Why is this happening to me, I am so tired of all this " hope you feel better too x
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Mar 18, 2014, 02:09 PM
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Coming of effexor can be really rough... Can you reduce the dose more slowly? When i came off it i opened the caps and poured out slightly more each day, then closed the caps and took it. It took me 6 months to come off it, but i couldn't tolerate quicker reduction. Another option is to start a drug with a longer half life, like prozac, and take that while you reduce the effexor. That will cover your discontinuation symptoms, and prozac is much easier to stop. I hope you feel better
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Mar 18, 2014, 02:47 PM
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sadly no, I have been off it 8 days now. I guess I am just surprised as I thought I was over the worst. I had the most awful discontinuation syndrome reducing from 75 to 37.5 but it also was sending me into rapid cycling episodes.I got through that and started to taper the lower doses as the symtoms disappeared. My Pdoc feels this will be better for me long term as the rapid cycling is exhausting me and the sooner we can get the effexor out the better so we can adjust.
I just really really thought the worst was over, I guess after a week of being great to be knocked back again out of nowhere has floored me 
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