September 7th
2005
10:44 AM
I felt that the Effexor did what it was supposed to while I took it. It helped my anxiety and slight depression, and I felt very happy the three years I took it. I did not have weight gain or any other side effects, other than crazy, vivid dreams that actually were funny to me. However, withdrawing from this drug was the worst I have ever experienced. I spread it out over 6 months, and it was still horrible. I was nauseated, disoriented, weak, had constant vertigo, felt electrical shocks in my head. I missed a week of work thinking that I was seriously ill, and then realized it was the Effexor, but it took another month until I felt like it was completely out of my system. I am back to feeling like my anxious and slightly depressed self again, but no way am I going back on Effexor knowing what the withdrawal symptoms are. I will find a way to feel better through diet modifications and lifestyle changes instead.
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October 6th
2007
4:13 PM
Hi everybody,, I would like to know if effexor can kill.. I stopped tsking effexor 5 months ago, since then i've been experienced headaches of different kinds,, you know what i mean.. Headaches that i have never feel before, hadeaches all over the head,,most on the left side,, then my left leg goes crazy at night feeling a kind of electrical shocks that don't let me sleep.. Im really affraid of havin a brain stroke because of effexor,, can someboduy tell me if it can happen,, And can somebody tell me if its possible to go out of effexor alive...
Thanks, reply please..
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