The Hermit King
Silver Member
I was on effexor a few years ago for about a six months and It did nothing for me. I did have the weird neck pain thing and now I think It may have been that damn medicine because Ive never had it since. Anyway one thing I can tell you about that I experienced was withdrawal symptoms from HELL.
Oh my god they were bad. I mean bad. I tried to ween off of it several times and ended up having to keep taking it. Eventually I said enough was enough and just stopped all together after weening off for three weeks. It was brutal, I could wave my hand in front of my face and see tracers which was very disturbing. If I looked in one spot it was like I could feel the damn earth moving beneath me. Vertigo from hell. Then there was the DISGUSTING feeling of the brain zaps, oh my god (OMG), what the f*ck (WTF) is that crap!? I felt like I had ten thousand tiny electric eels slithering around in my skull and it was sick. All of these symptoms I was dealing with though, the worst thing for me and I will never forget it for the rest of my life was the nightmares.
Let me tell you, this was not normal, I swear I thought there were demons or something in my house causing it, thats how bad they were. Every single night as soon as I drifted off to sleep I was literally transported to hell itself. And it was absolutely terrifying in so many ways. I am serious, same dream same demons same everything, I am not even religious! It was so real and so terrifying I would SNAP awake covered in sweat heart pounding like a jack hammer and it took me several minutes to realize I was back in the land of the living. All of this crap went on for over two weeks. It got so bad I was scared to go to sleep, like I was in a damn Freddy Krueger movie.
I was tempted to just take the crap again but I stuck it out and I will never take it or any other Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor (SSRI) again for that matter just because they scare the shit out of me. For me anyway, Effexor is the damn devil. I have never in my life experienced withdrawals like that from any other substance on this earth. I don't know if anyone else has experienced something like this but I did and I thought I would at least tell you what happened.
Oh and not only did it not help me with depression or anxiety or anything at all, it made it virtually impossible to orgasm. Which I am sure anyone would be like to hell with that! That may just be something it does to men though I am not sure. anyway. yeah.
Oh my god they were bad. I mean bad. I tried to ween off of it several times and ended up having to keep taking it. Eventually I said enough was enough and just stopped all together after weening off for three weeks. It was brutal, I could wave my hand in front of my face and see tracers which was very disturbing. If I looked in one spot it was like I could feel the damn earth moving beneath me. Vertigo from hell. Then there was the DISGUSTING feeling of the brain zaps, oh my god (OMG), what the f*ck (WTF) is that crap!? I felt like I had ten thousand tiny electric eels slithering around in my skull and it was sick. All of these symptoms I was dealing with though, the worst thing for me and I will never forget it for the rest of my life was the nightmares.
Let me tell you, this was not normal, I swear I thought there were demons or something in my house causing it, thats how bad they were. Every single night as soon as I drifted off to sleep I was literally transported to hell itself. And it was absolutely terrifying in so many ways. I am serious, same dream same demons same everything, I am not even religious! It was so real and so terrifying I would SNAP awake covered in sweat heart pounding like a jack hammer and it took me several minutes to realize I was back in the land of the living. All of this crap went on for over two weeks. It got so bad I was scared to go to sleep, like I was in a damn Freddy Krueger movie.
I was tempted to just take the crap again but I stuck it out and I will never take it or any other Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor (SSRI) again for that matter just because they scare the shit out of me. For me anyway, Effexor is the damn devil. I have never in my life experienced withdrawals like that from any other substance on this earth. I don't know if anyone else has experienced something like this but I did and I thought I would at least tell you what happened.
Oh and not only did it not help me with depression or anxiety or anything at all, it made it virtually impossible to orgasm. Which I am sure anyone would be like to hell with that! That may just be something it does to men though I am not sure. anyway. yeah.
