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I can't explain it, but everyone I know who has been on Effexor says the same thing. You're actually taking a fairly high dose. If you decide to taper, do it very slowly. According to one friend, the withdrawal symptoms can be dreadful.
It is a know syndrome called SSRI discontinuation syndrome.
I have tried twice to wean from cymbalta and failed both times.
The second time I was still having withdraw symptoms after 2 months and I'm a mom of 3 with a full time job. It was either go back on or lose my family, job and sanity!!
I think I'm stuck on it forever and it infurates me. NOONE ever told me that it would be near impossible to stop these medications.
It's a dependency, not an addiction. Layman term difference:
With an addiction, you need the drug to do things it isn't needed to do, at times it isn't needed to do it.
With a dependency, you need it to do the things it's intended to do, and can't function on your own without it doing that thing.
Example: Ambien (my particular dependency).
Ambien is prescribed to me for sleep. It is prescribed to me for sleep, because I can't fall asleep on my own without medical intervention. Ambien is the medical intervention that has proven most effective for me, personally. I am dependent on it. Without it, I revert back to my old sleeping habits, which means, I lay down at bedtime, when I'm actually tired, and my body and mind -want- to sleep, and stay awake for up to 3 hours miserable because I can't fall asleep, only to have to wake up 4 hours later to get ready for work. With Ambien, I lay down at bedtime, read 2-3 pages of a book, and I'm asleep 15 minutes later.
I am not addicted to Ambien, because I never feel like I have to take it any other time. I don't suffer in the daytime because I'm not dosing myself when I wake up. I don't miss it at 8PM when I'm washing the dishes in the kitchen. I don't feel deprived of a dose when I'm at work. I don't jones for a dose at suppertime.
If I were addicted, I would need another dose, as soon as the previous dose wore off. I need it -only- to sleep, and not for anything else.
Same with Effexor. Effexor needs to be taken once a day. If you were addicted to it, you'd eventually need to take it more often, until you were unable to get out of bed unless you were dosed up on it. Since that doesn't happen, you're not addicted even though you are -dependent- on it, to function at whatever level it helps you function at.
If you start needing to take a higher dose, at dose-time, then you are growing a tolerance to it. That still isn't an addiction. You could be dependent on it with an increased tolerance, and still not be addicted.
You just have to taper off SUPER slow,,much slower than all the drs say. Like 1/4 off the dose for 3 week+ then
another 1/4 off the dose,etc etc for however long it takes.
Mm, not really Doll Eyes. It's probably you, not the drug.
mmm, I just said I didn't have this kind of problem with the medication I'm on so maybe it is that particular drug, someone else I know takes it wellbutrin and also doesn't have any issues with it. So yea...
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