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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)
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I’m fearing my depression is coming back. I’m in the office now and I just want to cry and scream and run away. I realize I’m going through a lot of stress at the moment, so I’d love to blame it all on that. But I just don’t care anymore about anything - and yet I care TOO much about other things. My kid still makes me smile, so I’m going to focus on that. (I was in a hole so deep before I started Effexor 20 years ago that nothing made me smile...)
Trying not to keep telling the sad story!
Going to take a walk.
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@secretwhitepop- I'm with you on this. Mine came back again too, or started too. Then I realized that I hadn't been taking good care of myself-not enough rest, or eating the right foods or drinking enough water and not exercising. I started back on these goals today and I'm beginning to feel better. It's an awful feeling isn't it? But sometimes I do get feeling sad about something and confuse it with depression. Twenty years is a long time on one medicine that controls your moods. Do you think that it's time to change something or get an additional medication for a short time to see you through your stressful times?
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Susan, you were on Effexor for 20 years. That stuff gets stored in our tissues. I was on 25mg Effexor for 18 years and was fine for 6.5 weeks after my taper. I think that's because the Effexor stored in body fat carried me that long after quitting Effexor. I wasn't ever on Effexor for mental issues, but developed anxiety, agitation, insomnia, sudden rage, irritability and akathesia once I came off it. Perhaps your depression is coming back, or maybe, it's withdrawal. You can click on my name to see my previous posts to read about the supplements I've found extremely helpful in lessening my withdrawal symptoms--especially L-tryptophan, GABA and L-methylfolate (a prescription B vitamin that spurs the production of more neurotransmitters--serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine). My doctor also gave me a limited prescription of 5mg Valium to use when WD was overwhelming.
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@secretwhitepop
I am sorry you are suffering so!
Chances are that the depression you suffer from is genetic, part of your heredity, part of your chemical make-up.
The Effexor kept it under control for so many years, now nothing is.
I am no medical person, but it sounds to me like you need some sort of medication to manage your depression.
Don't wait too long!
You don't want things to get worse!!!!
Call the doc!
Good luck!
Ronnie (GRANDMAr)