Effexor is the nastiest drug ever invented!

[Taverner]

Worse than Zoloft!

Worse than Prozac!

Worse than anything you can name!

The fact that going off this stuff, even when doing it under doctor's care, gives you nasty dizzy spells that make you feel like your brain is going to slosh out your ears is a sign that this stuff is not...good...at...all....

[mduffy31]

1. Trust me, there is much worse stuff out there

[Taverner]

3. Well you're probably right

But I'm beginning to think that any drug altered from its natural state is evil.

Coca Leaf for example: when drunk as a tea the stuff is begnign and wonderful. When processed as Cocaine, well, I remember the 80's and I remember many of the brightest and best going down hard.

[mduffy31]

6. I am a nurse

and I have given some really nasty stuff, some stuff that required special IV tubing things like that.

[fizzgig]

2. effexor worked great for me

i'm sorry it's not been so good to you

[Taverner]

4. It worked, but to be honest, something is wrong with the WD's

I've quit painkillers and cigarettes and the WD's are far worse on this stuff than either.

[fizzgig]

the WDs are horrible

i'll agree. i went off them cold turkey and it took better than a week for me to feel normal again

[Ariana Celeste]

5. I was on that once.

Made me feel so zombie-ish and not-me.

[momophile]

7. you were in the Peace Corps in Thailand, right?

you must have had a nasty anti-malarial drug - Mefloquine, maybe. THAT shit is really nasty!

[Taverner]

8. Yes I have

and as bad as that was, Effexor is worse

To be honest the worst drug the Government ever gave me was the Hep II vaccine.

[momophile]

11. I didn't have that big a problem with the Hep II - only

slight nausea. I only took the Mefloquine pills for a few weeks while I traveled in SE Asia and China and that shit messed with me big time. I stopped taking it early because I was having a hard time functioning. I don't know how you all dealt with it for two years+! No malaria where I was in PC so no anti-malarial drugs!

Sorry to hear about the Effexor.

[Taverner]

14. Well the Meflquine did give me bizarre nightmares

And that kind of sucked...

[NewWaveChick1981]

9. Damn....sorry it's been so bad.

:hug: My husband took Wellbutrin for a while, and he had some mild effects coming off it. However, the side effects and withdrawal effects were nothing like you describe. :yoiks: That's terrible, and I'm sorry you have had to go through that.

[Taverner]

10. I'm on Welbutrin too

And that stuff is OK...it works for my ADHD and going off it is minor. I just get a little moody.

[NewWaveChick1981]

13. That's pretty much what he had to deal with too---moodiness.

:P But then again, he's always been moody, so I didn't really notice a big difference.

[swag]

12. Sounds a lot like Paxil to me.

[dajoki]

15. My Dr. just switched...

me from paxil to effexor. Paxil was a bitch getting off, now I'm stuck with effexor.

[Der Blaue Engel]

16. That stuff made me totally crazy

It did cure my mental obsessing, but it wasn't worth the psycho behavior, sexual side effects, and weird skin condition it gave me.

I'm on Wellbutrin now, which I like for the most part, except that it doesnt help at all with the mental obsessing (seems to make it worse). Too bad they can't come up with one with the benefits of both and negatives of neither.

[ceile]

17. Coming off it's a bitch.

But coming off a Cymbalta/Lamictal cocktail is worse. It took over a month for the WD's to subside. Effexor did good things, but it was hard to get off of.

[HEyHEY]

18. I've been on it for about 10 months

I have noticed that whenever I've missed a dose or something like that it hasn't been nice.

But, it beats counting how many corners are on the window frame over and over.