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Long term effects AFTER withdrawing from Effexor
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Dec 1 11:46am | Replies (201)Comment receiving replies
@dquest20 and @4cat Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I am sorry to hear about both of your struggles after getting off of Effexor.
Perhaps the two of you can connect for support.
I included side effects after withdraw.
Side effects of Effexor Withdraw - https://www.verywellmind.com/brain-shivers-as-effexor-withdrawal-symptom-1065516#:~:text=When%20decreasing%20or%20stopping%20an,Headache
@dquest20 and @4cat, what has this medication done to your quality of life?
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Antidepressants got me out of my head. It also eliminated social anxiety; something I didn’t know I had, didn’t know anything about or understand until several years after being medicated. Antidepressants changed my life for the positive. In the 21&1/2 years I was on them, through counseling and education, the areas of my life which caused my depressive state were healed and/or eliminated. Which is why I chose to stop them.
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I also had something like "brain shivers". Mentioned it to my doctors and they pooh-poohed it as they'd never heard of it.
Felt like a buzz of electricity was going down the inside center of my brain and "crackling"! The weirdest thing.
Never thought of the possibility it could be a medication side effect.