Re: Effexor Withdrawls

Posted by Candy on 07/08/05 at 07:33 AM

I was on Effexor 150mg for 4 years before I found out I was pregnant. My doc had me continue to take it through out my entire pregnancy. My baby is 2 and I am now up to 300mg. It is no longer working for me, but I can\'t stop it. Even if I miss 1 dose my body goes into DT\'s. I was told that this was a non habit forming drug, my mistake was to assume that also meant no w/d symptoms-Wrong! At 1st I thought I was crazy, I would twitch in my head. I thought that I had Turrets. Now I have heard others refer to this as \"Zaps\" or \"shocks\" and that is exactly what it was. It messes with my eyes and vision and I really can not explaine that any other way. I will be dizzy and sick. Today my doc switched me to Lexapro 10mg and told me that I did not have to take the 2 overlapping I could just stop the Effexor and start the Lexapro. Is this a good idea? The two are not even in the same drug class. I don\'t want to feel all of these w/d\'s but I have to get off. Any suggestions?