Does anyone else get severe severe panic and anxiety from Effexor withdrawal

Camellium · Aug 27, 2018 at 06:21 PM

I don't hear a lot of people talk about this particular withdrawal symptom. I Am Naturally have panic and anxiety so the Effexor has been helping a little bit with the anxiety so when I go down to 75 it will be no help so I know I'm going to freak out I don't know how to deal with having anxiety that's at an average 8 or over and a scale of 1 to 10 it's high and it's terrible churning of the stomach nausea awful awful nervousness terrible butterflies with razor blades. Please someone help how do you deal with it

TicTacGo · 02:45 PM

I don't seem to. I am on 75 mg, but seem to not experience withdrawal with that particular one.

Have you previously been on 75 mg? If so, and it did not help at that dosage, then lowering the dosage may be an issue.

If the medication is tapered down and not suddenly stopped, the experienced anxiety shouldn't be withdrawal per say, but rather that severe anxiety coming through.

If you haven't been on 75 mg for a period longer than a few weeks, then maybe it will help? If anything, it should help a little bit unless the anxiety really trumps the lower dosage.

Voice your concerns with the doctor. If you feel that you are not ready for a lower dosage, then he/she should take that into account.

Camellium · Aug 28, 2018 at 04:09 PM

Thank you Tic Tac. I was on 75 mg while I was at the mental hospital for two weeks. At 75 mg it doesn't seem to stop by natural anxiety. Now I figured when I went down to 75 I would also be put on 5 mg of Effexor. However a lot of times these medications have anxiety that comes along when you start up the medication. So basically I'll be going through withdrawal with the Effexor and having startup anxiety possibly with the Lexapro. The doctor May give me temporarily .5 Klonopin one time a day but I don't know if it's enough. When I decreased from 150 mg Effexor 2 1 12.5 it was not easy I had anxiety every single day the kind that is physical my stomach churned butterflies nausea awful almost never ending lots of pacing. So I'm afraid I keep praying but I don't know what the right thing to do is

*Laurie* · Aug 28, 2018 at 10:33 PM

I usually get severe anxiety with any psych med withdrawal.

marcoleap · Aug 29, 2018 at 10:56 AM

I've been on three meds--Zoloft, Klonopin, and Abilify--and the withdrawal from each has been brutal, including severe anxiety. It's not always easy for me to distinguish between withdrawal symptoms and recurrence of my depression and anxiety, but some symptoms do seem more like withdrawal because I didn't experience them before I went on meds. For example, when I tried to taper off of Zoloft a couple of years ago, I experienced an agitation that I had never experienced before from my depression and anxiety. I also dry heaved from nausea, which I had never experienced before, even when my anxiety was at its worst. I was unable to taper off of Zoloft, and in fact had to increase my dose and add Abilify and Klonopin. I would be very careful about trying to discontinue a psych med that you've been on for an extended period of time. Even slight dose reductions can cause intense withdrawal symptoms. I think many psychiatrists are criminally ignorant of the dangers of withdrawal. They do not adequately understand it, nor do they properly warn their patients.

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Laurie Account Suspended Member Since Jan 2015 Location: California Uber Alles Posts: 9,150 (SuperPoster!) 9 5,382 hugs given	Aug 28, 2018 at 10:33 PM #4 I usually get severe anxiety with any psych med withdrawal.
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