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the effexor "shocks"

I've been through this, I recently went off of Cymbalta (an SSNRI). I found that 200 mgs of 5-htp taken in divided doses throughout the day greatly reduced these "shocks".
 
I got that same zapping effect from Prozac. Funny thing was I only took it for 3 days because SSRI's make me wanna kill myself. I have never felt such desparate unrelenting depression as I did when I took that shit. It made me yawn and at the top of the yawn there would be a zap snap crackle pop out of reality. It was also impossible to have sex. I'm in the same shitty boat where I know the only thing that makes me feel better is benzo's and I end up addicted every time.

There is an alternative you might want to research called Remeron. The only nasty side effect I get from it is feeling drowsy in the morning.
 
Fairnymph- I tapered correctly. I was on 225MG for a year. I started to taper after that. I went down to 150mg for 2 weeks then down to 75mg for 2 weeks then 37.5mg for a week they I stopped. It was way to abrupt and I had really bad withdrawls after that. I was off of them for only 2 days. I couldn't handly it anymore so I started taking the 37.5mg again.
The withdrawls went away.

I saw a different doctor and he prescribed me effexor that came in a pill form(instead of capsule) which was only 25mg and could be split in half or quartered. So I halfed it for a few weeks then quartered it for a few weeks. then tried to stop but the withdrawls were still bad. I THEN started cutting the quarter pieces in half and did that for a while. I tried to go for a couple days without it sometimes I felt fine other times I got the shocks pretty. I got to where I could go a couple days with out feeling the shock but as soon as I felt them I was taking that small dose and it would go away. NOW I am currently off of them completely. YAY! I still have the shocks but they are not that noticeable anymore and don't really bother me. I think its almost been 3 weeks now.

Anyway- Thanks for the replys. I knew I could count of BL to help me out. I don't post much but I have been on here for a long time.

I prefer to stay off all RX drugs. I am very thankful for effexor, lorazepam and xanax though. They helped me get through a ruff time in my life dealing with anxiety.
Now I replace drugs with weekly deep tissue massage and acupuncture. It's working great for me.

glitter
 
i get similar shocks when dosing on mushrooms. happens every time... so much so i may just have to stop eating them.
:(
 
yeah but insurance wont cover your rx to heroin ;)


btw, i am experiencing them too, even thugh i am not tapering. i think it's because i am tapering off heroin with ultram, which has ss/nri effects, and the ultram is causing the shocks. ive heard that effexor and tramadol are extremely structrually similar. They're quite annoying.

But Effexor IS the best anti-depressant i've ever been on, and ive been on almost all of em, including various TCAs. It just comes down to, different strokes for different folks... different chemicals(ADs) work well on some and not well on others.
 
effexor should be banned..... Doctors seems to just up and up the dose till your a zombie.... Then Withdrawral is hell.

Are you even depressed cause of chemical imbalance in the brain or is it another reason, Drug Addiction, Other mental condition, etc.... I know personally that i have anxiety issues and not one anti depressant (id been on about 8) had help longterm, it rather knumbed my brain....
Doctors handout antidepressants way to easy, and they simply dont fix everyone. I find a psycholigist helps me with my anxiety issues with relaxation therapy rather than AD,s. Anyway thats my say,,,,,
 
I noticed i only get the shocks when i change the direction my eyes are looking in. If i sit perfectly still and look straight at something then i didnt get them, but if i looked at something else then i would get them as my brain 'caught up' with my vision sort of thing. its a killer when walking down the street or looking in all diff. directions for any reason.
 
did u notice that this resurfaced thread is almost a year old? i did, because it had my old avatar when i used to post under the username ronald.

effexor is a very 'safe' medication. it has almost no side effects and is not addictive. unfortunately it is does not affect dopamine reuptake making it slightly inferior.
 
I disagree - anything that has withdrawal symptoms, which effexor definitely does, they even list it in the side effects as "Withdrawal Syndrome" - is ADDICTIVE. I was on Effexor for 4 months, I was up to almost 300mg a day, a walking zombie, and decided to slow taper. I tapered off 37.5mg a week, and it took me 2 months, and I still had awful withdrawal: shocks, brain shivers- where it feels like your brain is physically vibrating side to side in your head, vertigo to the point that I could not drive, tinnitus, mood swings, anxiety...the list goes on
after 4 days of this hell, I started on Wellbutrin, and that helped alleviate some of the withdrawal, helped with my depression, and i quit smoking. personally, it is the best antidepressant I've found (for me, of course, to each his/her own...) with the least amount of nasty side effects. and its very effective at making cigarettes completely unappealing, if you're trying to quit, this is a nice bonus.
 
look at the structure of effexor and compare to the structure of tramadol......very similiar.
I used effexor for a few months, and had to withdraw from that while detoxing from heroin in jail.
A few years later my mom told me she was going to try effexor, I tried to talk her out of it......6 months later she called me and said she had new respect for people who kick opiates, she just finished with detoxing from effexor, and what she described to me was in line with what many people experience with opiate withdrawl, plus the added spatial disorientation.
I think that effexor is every bit as addictive as strong opiates.
 
digital: does it by any chance feel remotely like you're forgetting to breath in and your heart gets 'numb' for a moment at the same time?





skjalff
 
i've been on effexor for 5 months now (daily 150mg)
did 1 week on 75mg

helped solved a lot of my issues proved to bring some positiveness to my life, i have been having wacky dreams everymorning (think Vivid dreams when withdrawing from big pot usage)

twice i forgot to take for a 2 day period and the first time i had those electric shocks, all over body, felt like walking on air, very light headed and feeling very very sick.

it's hard to explain but it gives a view of myself from outside ( like being someone else looking at me)

anyway im planning to get off it, too many side effects + i think my life has changed enough for me to take control of it back again.
 
Made me think twice about Tom Cruise's rant on the evils of modern psychiatry. At first I though he was wacko but now I think he has point!
 
has anyone taken effexor or other anti dep's for opiate withdrawl...

The main problem when my mscontin dose gets low is extremely extremely tired and can't do anything (other than talk to all of you) does antidepressants help with that part?
I can't take stim's like caffeine becayuse it makes me aggitated.. and anxiety real bad...
My main ques. isnt' for withdrawl but when you're trying to taper to a low dose..
 
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