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How did you cope with Effexor discontinuation symptoms?
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jun 10, 2021 | Replies (49)Comment receiving replies
My story is much like yours. I had a physchiatrist who told me I needed Xanax and Paxil for over 25 years. I suffer from debilitating anxiety and panic. No known reason. I’m 67. Last year when the Xanax “turned on me” the best way I know how to put it, LOL, I expressed my desire to discontinue and begin tapering. To make a long story short my doctor totally abandoned me, refused to take my phone calls, office staff was hanging up on me, etc. etc. I had no prescriptions left and even though I live in a very large city couldn’t find a new doctor willing to take on another doctor’s benzo addict. I wound up in the hospital and was put on all kinds of crazy physch meds when in actuality I was in withdrawal from the abrupt cessation of the Xanax. No physchiatrist at a very well known hospital here would acknowledge or admit I was in withdrawal. Another long story short after leaving the hospital with about 5 different meds making me horribly worse I did find a compassionate, caring doctor who is now helping me out of this mess. This has not been a good year! Thank God I have a loving husband of 48 years and two great sons. Doing pretty darn good now.
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@sears, I was reading an older post of yours about your situation of being hospitalized for unknown reasons, but in reality you were in withdrawals! I had a very similar incident many years ago before we knew how devastating benzos can lbe. I was the one who finally figured it out and made the mistake of jumping back on the drug out of desperation to feel better. And now years later I feel like you, that the klonopin finally " turned on me". I think you have used that term in several posts. I would really like to know the details of your experience when that happened to you. Thank you.
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That sounds horrible! What’s wrong with some doctors! Glad you are doing better. You should stay away from benzos if you can. Good luck.