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Long term effects AFTER withdrawing from Effexor

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Dec 1 11:46am | Replies (201)

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Thank you for that suggestion. I haven’t used this resource in years so I wouldn’t have know who in the group would be good to reach out to here. I mentioned it to my doctor at my last physical and she was strangely silent regarding any of my comments related to chronic pain and depression. This is a new doctor and I was hopeful, due to her bio, that she was more open minded to alternative medicine and listening. However that was not my experience. I have moved A LOT in my adult life and so my medical care has been very inconsistent and poor. The only constant has been my therapist for the last 12 years. While I have done well since weaning off meds (and getting a divorce—one of the exacerbating factors for depression was the marriage), this pain is threatening to pull me down into depression again. Thank you for the recommendation and for reaching out to these other folks. I hope they might have some wisdom to share.

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I was only Effexor for 2-3 years and it is now 16 years after weaned off and I suffer with strange lack of motivation, fatigue, anxiety and insomnia which all leads to pain since. It all started after I came off the Effexor and I’d NEVER experienced anything like it before. The Effexor has no doubt permanently damaged me in some way. There are books written by experts that discuss the long term and permanent damage of antidepressant use and Effexor is one of them.

Do you have any advice for weaning off of Paxil? I am desperate I just found this website and not sure how it works yet.