Re: Re: UPDATE: EFFEXOR LAWSUIT FILED

Posted by claude gaboury on 03/15/06 at 05:58 AM

I am a system analyst, 53 years, male. Have been on EFFEXOR XR 150mg twice a day for 3 years. When I stopped taking this, i went through this feeling that I had lost most of my consciousness in that period, in which I did not recognized myself, having done irreversible decisions that I would not have done otherwise (such as quitting my job and losing my salary insurance etc). The most strange thing about this is that while taking these pills I had no ability to think and I remember I gave up using computers and internet as this was requesting too much effort from me, I was vomitting every morning, I was feeling horrible all the time and yet in an ABSOLUTE UNABILITY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS GOING ON, really thinking more like a monkey than a human (basic survival mode) and therefore unable to seek further help or understand myself that EFFOXOR had suppressed by ability to think. Obviously, if you cannot think, I mean reflect on a subject, you cannot realize that \"your thinking process is altered or banned\". I\'d like to see if anybody had such a de-humanization experience. This feels like some primitive alien (all opposite to what I always wanted to be) would taken control of my body and soul for all that time, from which I felt freed only once I stopped completly using it.