Effexor Withdrawal Success

I just wanted to tell you the exciting news that I have successfully gotten myself off Effexor.

Yes, I've heard all of the horror stories about how you go into a deep depression... nothing is the same... etc. But I felt that I was ready to get off.

So I took myself off, didn't tell anyone, not family, not friends, not even doctors.

First step, I cut my dose in half for one week (I was on 150mg then down to 75.). After the one week period, I stopped taking it. I have been off of it for 3 weeks now, after being on it for 2 years, and I am very happy, no side effects other than the short impulses of electical feeling through my body, but that only lasted for a week, and tapered off more each day.

I had NO other side effects, and I feel so much happier and stronger that I do not need to depend on this medication.

I believe that the people who are having such problems getting off their meds are prob not ready to get off of them. I feel that I now deal with my emotions in a very healthy way. I stopped supressing things as much as possible. I try to be a good person.

Effexor helped me to bring my issues to the surface, and see what I was doing wrong in my life. Yes, the process was hard, but it forced me to deal with my problems in a healthy way.

I do not believe that the drug causes these terrible side effects, I believe that it is the state of mind that you are in, and the way that your state of mind reacts to the drug.

If you get depressed, it is probably because it is helping you to bring issues to the surface you were suppressing and allowing you to react. Of course it will be overwhelming if you have been supressing things for soo long, and now all of a sudden they come to the surface.

For instance, I was soo depressed when they doubled my meds, and didn't know why until i realized, wow, I am neglecting my family. That's it! Normally I would just shrug things off, but it makes you focus on your issues on until they are solved.

People should not fear this medication or think that it is horrible. I am very grateful for the drug. It has helped me a lot, but I do not agree with long term use, unless it's for a worse mental health issue.

To get off, a person must be in a stable state of mind, otherwise the person will have problems. I think that it was especially important for me that I didn't tell anyone because this was something I wanted to do on my own. I wanted to prove to people and myself that I did not need this drug anymore. I also didn't want people to know because I didn't want anyone to act differently around me.

I believe that doctors ultimately do not really know what is best for you when it comes to your mental health. They can prescribe things all they want, but do they really know what's going on in your head and how things will affect you?

A doctor/psych has never told me anything about myself that I didn't already know.

Granted, I'm sure that what I did was not smart taking myself off, however I felt confident in doing so. I just had a gut feeling it was for the best.

Please email me with any questions because I would love to get to the bottom of these types of issues, and would love to help anyone that is in the same situation that I was in. I know that I would have greatly appreciated it.

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