Coming Off Effexor

[hogananjiggs]

So I'm now on last week of pills. Feeling it today.. Spins ,feeling sick, tired feels like my brain super sensitive, bad thoughts that don't want to leave me and anxious.
To sum it up I wish I didn't exist.
I'm hoping this will pass. Yee haw .

 

[Just_Dan]

So I'm now on last week of pills. Feeling it today.. Spins ,feeling sick, tired feels like my brai...

I've witnessed my wife coming off that awful drug. Hopefully you're feeling better sooner.

 

[joeylittle]

It's one of the more difficult ones (to put it mildly). Hang in there, try and be gentle with yourself. Thinking of you.

 

[hogananjiggs]

Does anyone have any tips?
Today is worse
The "talk" in my head is bad
It keeps repeating and repeating l can't seem to keep grounded.
To top it off I have a job to hold down.

 

[Silver.]

I was on effexor a long time ago, before they realized I am allergic to antidepressants. It is a nasty drug, the good news is, you are getting off it.
I play games in my head, when my head won't shut up. My favorite is the ABC game, I pick a category, animals, food, movies, books, etc. Then I start listing each letter of the alphabet to work with the category. Like animals: antelope, barracuda, cougar etc.... I keep cycling through categories until my head is quiet. Working the brain this way helps make you focus only on the game and help distract the noise, the repetitive thoughts and so on. It's one of the few things I have taught myself that works really well.
It WILL get better x

 

[joeylittle]

Make sure you are drinking plenty of water; 2-3 L daily. Avoid alcohol. Avoid extremely fatty foods. Try and get some daily exercise, even just a few brisk walks a day.

Effexor is metabolized by the liver. The best thing you can do to speed your clearance is anything that supports basic, good health. There's no way to make it go faster than it can go, but you can look into B vitamins, and I've read that milk thistle can be a helpful supplement (though I've never tried it).

Why are you coming off of it? And do you have adequate therapeutic support to manage the increase in stress and depressive thoughts?

 

[hogananjiggs]

I'm coming off it because things are worse on it, (constant bad dreams, no "levelness" up sky high one week and 2 weeks way way down and the thoughts are worse) so I'm in a hellish spot maybe it is the meds gonna find out. The plan is to see how it goes and if poorly try something else.
As for support yes got that although not weekly.
Its really weird... ex I heard Simon and Garfunkel sound of silence:

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs
That voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence

It makes me scream NO in my head and scares me not sure why its such a trigger but it is..
I'm glad I didn't download it

 

[Panda Bear]

I agree, B-vitamins and Magnesium for sure. I had s dangerous run in with Wellbutrin and while it's half life is short and fast moving through your system, my psychiatrist kept me taking magnesium through a good 3wks after I stopped it.

Hang tight, I know thinks rough.