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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)
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I completely understand! I've been off of Effexor for 8 weeks. About two weeks ago, I started suffering from insomnia, waking in the middle of the night, brain zaps are back after being gone for weeks and I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin. I'm exercising, getting plenty of liquids, eating a trained athlete's diet, meditating, working through my personal issues but these symptoms keep torturing me. I'm really at my wit's end!
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Yes! There seems to be a sort of second reckoning when the positives that come with getting a prescribed drug out of your life are replaced with symptoms that say you cant manage without them. I feel like I survived something awful and broke free but the dark starts taking over again and I blame myself for not doing it right, not doing life right. I am not sleeping enough (10 hrs?), not eating as I should (not totally 100% clean), not avoiding triggers ( family, responsibilities, work issues all still exist), and not exercising enough. I feel awful and I was supposed to be better.