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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)
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Hey Jake. How goes it? Well i havent been in here in awhile. Turns out I have stage 4 Lymphoma and I am going through Chemo right now. I’ve had 2 treatments so far and what a ride its been. I never expected this at all but its gere and I have to deal with it. My doctor says the treatments should put this into remission. Sure hope so as the alternative is def not good. I have even started to take CBD oil. This stuff is supposed to have magical powers!!!!! I am sure glad I changed Doctors as my last one just kept on changing meds with little or no success. I went through that for 3 yrs. I’m also taking this “smart drug”. Doc says its like video game inside my body. Its killng bad cells and unfortunately its also killing some good ones. I have 4 more treatments to go and hopefully it works. Take care!!!!!
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@shaker1956- HI Shaker
Glad you are back. Sounds like you have not been having a lot of fun! How are the treatments- are they rough? We hope you will keep us posted as you go through this experience as we will be thinking of you and sending good thoughts your way!
Best wishes
Ainsleigh
@shaker1956 Chemo is hard. Have done it twice--six treatments in 2001 for estrogen-positive breast cancer and in 2015, six with Adriamycin and then 12 taxol for triple-neg breast cancer. You will feel like crap, but the alternative .... If you have been given ondansetron and prochlorperazine for the nausea on treatment days and for a few days afterwards, I was told to overlap them (after a baaaad reaction to the first Adriamycin chemo)--the first one was to be taken every 8 hours and the second, every 6 hours, but don't wait until the end of the 8 hours to take the 2nd drug--take it 6 hours into the 1st drug, then take the 8-hr drug about 4 hours into the 2nd one and so on. Made all the difference. Also--lived on Stoned Wheat Thin Crackers for those five months in 2015; could eat those when nothing else could be faced.
There's every hope! A co-worker was diagnosed with lymphoma about 12 years ago; I don't know the stage, but she was out for a year and at one point, they did a bone marrow replacement and she had to be isolated for three months until her immune system came back. She's doing well and enjoying retirement. Pulling for you.
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@shaker1956
I’ve missed you being around. You have been a lot of help and encouragement to the folks. Jeez, I forgot all about the Lymphoma. I have a really crappy memory. You beat the Effexor withdrawals (hope you don’t have them anymore) and with your strong constitution and determination you’ll beat this too.
Keep us updated buddy.
Take care of yourself,
Jake