Re: Effexor XR experience and questions

August 11, 2009

To and Jen, Ive been on this group for a few years now, you need to contact Creel HERE she will advise you how to divvy up the little balls inside FXR capsule, and what ever else as far as nutrition goesI have been off all meds since November 2005 and still suffer from adverse reactions, but am doing WAY better nowthe day I was prescribed pharmaceuticals I weighed about 130 pounds, Im 5'6", after four and a half years my weight more than doubled and I had so many side effects, I just wanted to die, I was a cocktail waitress for thirteen years before, for me to have gotten that huge was unbelievable. I still have thirtyfive pounds to go for me to feel anything like myself again, but I will never get back all of those years that I was in a pharmaceutical coma and acting retarded ~Sandy

August 11, 2009

To and Jen, Ive been on this group for a few years now, you need to contact Creel HERE she will advise you how to divvy up the little balls inside FXR capsule, and what ever else as far as nutrition goesI have been off all meds since November 2005 and still suffer from adverse reactions, but am doing WAY better nowthe day I was prescribed pharmaceuticals I weighed about 130 pounds, Im 5'6", after four and a half years my weight more than doubled and I had so many side effects, I just wanted to die, I was a cocktail waitress for thirteen years before, for me to have gotten that huge was unbelievable. I still have thirtyfive pounds to go for me to feel anything like myself again, but I will never get back all of those years that I was in a pharmaceutical coma and acting retarded ~Sandy

August 11, 2009

Judy is right!!

www.acam.org has integrative medical doctors, you will have to call

around, you might need nutritional supplimentation to help you get

through the withdrawal.

Call around, ask questions, there might be just the doctor for you.

Integrative doctors tend to look for underlying causes instead of

masking symptoms.

These drugs are not something to fool around with, most people are

miserable for a while until the withdrawal is over, some feel they have

been permanently damaged, your body adjusts to these drugs and then has

a hard time readjusting.

there are other folks that help people off psychiatric and medical

drugs also. I still cannot believe that the pharma lapdogs at the FDA

allow these drugs on the market and then defend them for years and the

drugs are still around. It's amazing.

Jim

Judy Gayton wrote:

In terms of the wieght -you might want to look at

metobolic syndrome - there is some discussion about meds creating

this-serequel was the one most targeted in the current lawsuits for

causing weight gain and diabetes, but they were all implicated.

Have your thyroid checked and rechecked.

Check your temperature UNDER your arm with a basal thermometer every

morning for a month BEFORE you get out of bed. Track it and a list of

your symptoms.

Have your liver tested. You know what has happened to you,

but without tests you will never have the proof you need to get the

heart of the issues resolved or even know for certain what it is you

need to work on or the best way to go about that. My dr.s all said

there was nothing wrong with me. I went to an alternative worker and

had live blood analysis, salvia and unrine tests and they showed,

heart, liver and kidney damage and I was only on prozac for 6 weeks and

ended up in a coma. I plan to do chelation therapy to detox but ONLY

after I am strong enough. If you are not strong enough to detox, it can

take you to your knees and make you very very sick. You need to find

someone competent to work this through with.

From: shepelec2002 <pscs@...>

Subject: Effexor XR experience and questions

SSRI medications

Received: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 2:18 AM

Hi

I am new to this group. I am 41 years old, and was placed on Effexor XR

in January of 2007. At this time, I was in the hospital and had no

experience with anti-depressents. Nor did I even know what they were

giving me. I never asked, and they never disclosed it.

I was also placed on Seroquel.

I was started at 37.5, the normal dosing of FXR, and then bumped to 75

mg. I have to say that I did feel much better.

Then I noticed I was putting on weight. And lots of it. I was about 128

pounds and I now weigh 156. I am only 5'3".

I didn't change my eating habits, so can anyone tell me WHY I gained

all this weight? Was there something in the medication that slowed my

metabolism down?

Then I started reading about FXR and getting off of it. I had decided

back in March of this year, I wanted off. I was tired of gaining

weight, and the sexual side effects were not pleasant either.

Well, after reading the horrific stories of FXR WD, I got scared and

just stayed on it. I discontinued my Seroquel, and that was no problem.

I was placed on Buspar, and that was working fine for me. I have more

anxiety then depression.

So, again last month I had enough. Bad WD symptoms or not, I figured if

it was that bad to detox from, then in must be bad in my system.

Two weeks ago, I was tapered to 37.5, and placed on 200 mg of

Wellbutrin. I didn't have any problems at all. I figured I was in the

clear. I was wrong.

Once I stopped the FXR altogether, it got bad. Brain Zaps, very, very

dizzy, nausea, sweating, ears ringing. Awful.

I ended up taking Bonine(like a Dramamine) to help with the dizziness.

OMG it was awful.

It has now been two weeks, and just now I am feeling like I am almost

done with the WD symptoms.

For anyone on FXR, you need to get OFF.

I am on Wellbutrin now. I need to take this weight off.

Do you think that by stopping the FXR, my metabolism will change and I

can get this extra weight off?

And I just wanted to share my experience with getting off of FXR. DO

not listen to your Dr's. Do not take this stuff unless it is of dire

emergency.

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