Effexor / Venlafaxine Withdrawal, What Your Family Needs To Know When You Come Off This Stuff!
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- Y’all got this!! If you ever have any questions or just simply need to talk, hit me up. I’m always here to help out.
It takes months to start feeling right for some people. It’s a hell of a fight but it’s 100% worth it!!
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Effexor withdrawal is evil…yes..I needed to be alone but also comfort at the same time…the hardest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life…thanks Jeff for your help..
How’re doing Rusty? You’ve been on my mind.
Thank you for your videos. I was prescribed 150mg Venlafaxine for post partum depression a year ago. I've now been cold turkey off of it for 2 weeks because my therapist suddenly refused to fill my prescription and said I should see a psychiatrist if I want to continue to stay on it. I'm lucky my husband is staying strong for me and helping out with the baby more when I'm having a bad day. 30 second at a time.
You’re so welcome!! I am so sorry you’re going through this right now. My wife suffered postpartum for at least two years.
I can’t believe they would do that to you. You would think a therapist who put you on them would know the dangers of pulling someone off cold turkey. That is insane!! They should not be able to write a script for a drug the clearly do not understand the dangers of it.
You’re extremely fortunate to have someone fighting with you in your corner. If your husband need to talk to me or if you need to yall feel free to reach out! I’m always here to help. You got this!! 30 seconds at time. I watched a video last night that helped me understand the chemical side of why this drug is so difficult to come off. After I post this reply I’ll go find it and reply you with it.
You’re awesome!!! Two weeks is a long time to endure this nightmare!! You go this!! So proud of you! I really am! People who have never suffered the nightmare of coming off this stuff have no idea what you’re going through. Just like I couldn’t relate to my wife when she was battling postpartum depression. I could only be there for her and be there for my son. Tell your husband to keep up the awesome work!! You got a good one!!
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It’s good that you’re doing multiple videos on Effexor. The right resources are hard to find for discontinuing the drug, so the more the word that can get out the better.
Thank you, I have felt more and more compelled to talk about is as so many people have reached out to me telling me of their horror stories being on or coming off Effexor. I can’t believe this stuff is still being pushed by doctors. It might help a few people but it wrecks far many more than it helps. This pill turns you into its slave sooo fast!
Man thx 4 these vids u put up about effexor. Im doing ur approach of oppening the capsule and count the beads. Im 10mg per day for a month and 20 days. I feel the difference from being on 37.5mg for 2 months to now 10mg. rage, fear , anxiety, low mood and energy
Thank you for taking the time to watch them. I hope they have helped some. What you’re going through is terrible and absolutely beatable.
Have you watched my video about gabapentin? I talk about hitting a certain mg when I was coming off gabapentin that my body stated detoxing halfway through the day. When I got to that point I had to pick a date and tear the band aid off. Everyone’s chemistry is a little different. I need to include a link to a video I saw recently about how the different mg level affect you mood differently. It’s like an upper and a downer at the same time depending on your mg. Have you delayed a dose yet to see if you get the mind zaps at 10mg.
Btw Scot you’re doing great. Thank you for sharing the journey.
Man you are one tuff dude. Hang in bro.
I can’t thank you enough for your med videos honestly. I’ve been off of effexor for THREE AND A HALF MONTHS now 😭❤️. Now I’m on my way on tapering the next monster: clonazepam… I’m trying to lower one drop every week or something, still don’t know how fast I should do it, but I feel symptoms honestly. And still feel some teeny tiny ghosts from my effexor withdrawal, but I’m so much better 😭 I started going out again, little by little. God bless you and your wife Jeff 🙏🏻❤️✨
AWESOME!!! I’m so glad you have kept checking back in!! We are so excited and proud of you. I’ve told April about each of your updates. She feels the same way I do about you accomplishments. There are so many people who can’t get off this stuff and you’re proving it’s very possible. It’s not easy but it’s very worth doing. You’ve opened up new doors in life. Is your clonazepam in liquid form?
@@Speedbagthrasher awww that’s so sweet of her! Thank you lots 🥹! And yes, it’s in liquid form! I was taking about 0,8mg daily (sometimes up to 1,2mg), now I’m on 0,4-0,6… this week I went rough from 0,6 to 0,4 and even 0,2 one specific day. Needless to say I’ve been feeling terrible because of that… Can’t deny it, I’ve been taking it every day for the past 10 months 😔. I thought my only problem was effexor, but recently I got to do some research about benzos and I found out some of those symptoms came from clonazepam. I feel kinda hopeless… I’m also on Zoloft 150mg (which I plan to quit in a few months as well, but now it works really well for me). Sometimes all of these symptoms make me confused and helpless
I got myself off Klonopin using TRAZADONE. It’s non habit forming; I have had it for a long time and never feel a need for it, but let me tell you when I thought to try it to get off klonopin it was like God speaking directly to me and IT WORKED. See if you can get a prescription for trazadone and just use it to help calm the withdrawal symptoms from klonopin. I’m nervous giving medical advice, but this honestly worked for me.
Klonopin is Clonazepam, just in case that wasn’t clear sorry 😊
I came off clonazepam u also need to take it slow was much easier compared to effexor 4 me
Man thanks for this. I can't explain this so I need to show my wife and a few others this.
@@obbyjep7597 you’re most welcome!! I truly wish you didn’t need to show others this video. It means you’re fighting your ass off to make it through another day. Do you mind telling me how you’re feeling?
@@Speedbagthrasher it's just hell, I have gone cold turkey of of pain pills, percs and such and it was bad not something if wish on anyone, so far this is worse. Man the emotions are crazy to the point of being dangous, can't really work or go out at all. Rage sadness empty ness. I haven't had sharpness and fire and drive sense taking it. It's effected all parts of life including my wife. I do feel some of the alertness, awarness coming back a bit but it's very painful still. I still deal with ptsd on top, but can do so without meds. Anyway... I'm a bit of a fighter and don't give up. You to bro, it might b be the lack of drugs at this time but when I heard about your dad and things from your vid in not to proud to say I cried
@@obbyjep7597 thank you greatly for sharing? Do you mind me asking what your taper schedule was before taking your last dose, how many mg was your last dose, and how long has it been since taking your last dose?
You’re definitely a fighter!! You will beat this!! I know you will.
@@Speedbagthrasher thanks. Sure. Been on 150 for around 6 years, got fed up and quite them about 3 weeks ago and quickly got pretty bad so went to doc and go 75mg and been taking those once a day. At this point my plan is to let myself stabilise to a point at 75 and then tapper 5mg at a time until it's gone. I'm only now reading about how to do it as the doctor offered nothing. I think I'll kinda play it by ear so to say, but I want off it bad and am willing to suffer a bit if it means reaching the end quicker. The slow taper methods seem appealing, someone going through full withdrawal from these can't work, drive, barely anything, it might be better to taper just to be able to function
@@obbyjep7597 “I’m a bad mother fucker!!!” I had to tell myself that constantly for the first couple of months to not go insane. You’re doing the right thing. They should have put you back on your original dose and then started tapering down. But we will work with what you got. DO NOT do a linear taper. You want to go by percentages not fixed mg drops.
If you aren’t on Facebook make an account so you can become an art of the group on this page. They have the most useful information on there out of anywhere else I’ve looked. The moderator is a bad ass.
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If the link doesn’t work from here message me and I’ll send it to you. Also, if you want to talk by phone I’m always ready to help out even if just a simple conversation. 903-738-1312
Yes, a wave is exactly how it feels. My husband thanks you. This video really helped give him an idea as to what is going on in my head. He said he will definitely reach out if he has any questions your videos hasn't covered. I REALLY wish I could use some good weed to help relax me, but eventhough I live in Southern Cali where it's legal, I have a government job and we still aren't suppose to use it. I try to unwind with a bit of alcohol and video games. Most days it helps, but some days I can't focus on anything but the negative thoughts. I don't feel comfortable telling anyone at work about my struggles, so I have to really work at faking my happiness. It's so true about the saying of being kind to the people around you cause you have no idea what they are quietly struggling with. Thank you for your responses and letting me vent. Other than my husband, I don't want to tell anyone in my family so they don't worry. Thank you for letting me share my experience and foe giving us more advice. 😊
I’ll be honest. I normally tell everyone to tell everyone what you’re going through. Let them worry about you because they should. You will also be amazed how many people will share their own horror stories with you of what they or someone they know has gone through. Trust me, you are not alone. I have learned through my own vulnerability by posting these videos that there are SO many people out there suffering in one way or another and it’s so powerful when you can connect with others through pain. I have often said pain sees pain. After you make it past this you will start to see others suffering how you have. You’ll see people who have the dead eyes as they too are fighting 30 seconds at a time. I know you know the look I am talking about. I see it in others as I saw it in my own eyes when I was fighting to win my war with Effexor. There were days that I stood screaming so loud in the back of my mind looking through my eyes at a shell of a person standing in front of the mirror, screaming for me to wake up, hoping in every way one day I would see that light in my eyes again. It took quite a while for the lights to come on and for the screaming to stop. I talked to everyone about what I was fighting through. And I can’t tell you how many people shared their stories with me. How many people let me cry on their shoulders. I needed as much love and understanding that I could get. Vulnerable is not something we allow ourselves to be very easily. It’s extremely powerful when you do though.
You got this!! Your child is so lucky to have a mom that is fighting her ass off so she can be an amazing mom!! Tell your husband to keep his head up high and be patient with you. It will get better. 30 seconds at a time!!!
Thank you so much. Last might was a very difficult night and that's why I went online to research how to get through this. That's when I came across your videos. I shared this video with my husband so he can hopefully get an idea of what I'm going thru. He wants me to go back on the meds and then taper off, but I've already got thru 2 weeks down and want to push forward. I had 2 great days where I felt like my old self, then suddenly last night, all the crap that comes with withdrawal came back. I was so upset because it felt like false hope, but I'm trying so hard to see it as a light at the end of a long f'n tunnel. Thank you again!!
I remember those feelings all to well. Some people say coming off antidepressant’s can be like riding waves in the ocean. I feel coming off Effexor was more like battling my way through a cat 5 hurricane. You’ll have lots of moments like that. One day you’ll feel almost like your old self again and then get slammed back down. That stuff is so powerful that your brain has to learn how to correct it’s chemistry. It’s a process. As I said, I’m still learning about the things to do and things not to do. In my video where I talk in detail how my experience was coming off this I talk about smoking weed to help. I’ve learned for some people that can have a very negative affect on them. Everyone’s chemistry is different.
Me personally, if I was 2 or 3 days off this I would consider going back in it and tapering off how I described in one of my videos by reducing the number of bbs per capsule. But 2 weeks off. I don’t think there is any way I could go back on it. I would have committed to the long haul at that point. That’s just me though. And that’s also very tricky to say. It may have been easier on me to get back on it and slowly taper down. I survived 30 seconds at time through the worst of it. Then slowly the days started to seem a little brighter.
I would strongly suggest if you stick to this path to start meditating. Make sure you’re drinking plenty of good water. Spring water in fact. If it says purified throw it away. You need spring water or ionized water. I would start listening to videos from Joe Dispenza about the power of healing ourselves with our own energy. Very powerful stuff. It helps a lot. I wish I would have known more about the power of meditation when I came off this.
I still offer my hand to your husband if he wants to talk to an Effexor survivor. And I say it that way because this drug has a long list of names that have never been able to get off it and some of those who did didn’t survive it like my father. I’m here for y’all!! You got this!! 30 seconds at a time!
I'm on day 6 of withdrawal after being on it for 7 years, due to a double fatal car crash and traumatic brain injury.
I’m so sorry to hear that. How are you feeling? Did you taper down or go cold turkey
@@Speedbagthrasher I tapered down for 1 months and now none. I'm managing but it isn't easy.
@@rzr5052 where are you located? Do you want to talk? 903-738-1312 text me and let’s figure out when we can talk.
Thanks Jeff!
How long did the worst of the side effects last from taking the last dose?
Each person is different. A lot of it depends on how you taper down. Are you still taking these meds or preparing to come off them? How long have you been on them and at what mg?
Love what you are sharing wanted to reach out but realize no way to message you quickly. Any-who thank you for being g here and sharing. Amazing you’re the only one e o. The search engine newest to oldest.
@@bighappylife72eidam62 that’s so scary!! So many people are afraid to put themselves out there. I felt compelled to put some of my most vulnerable feeling out into the universe hoping it would find the people who needed to hear most. I’m always available if you need to talk. Let me know how you want to. Email, text, call, WhatsApp. I wish I talked to more people. I think I scare them away because I’m right up front lol. I just want to help others feel less helpless than I did. I was terrified as I’m sure my now wife was too. It was scary as hell.