Re: I have lawyer for effexor class act

Posted by john beach on 03/08/06 at 11:48 AM

Fellow Effexor Guinea Pigs! we have been so victimized by Wyeth–and ultimately–by our own physicians and their ignorance… it’s really hard to wrap my mind around the awefulness of it.

I have signed the petition online against effexor, at http://www.petitiononline.com/effexor/petition.html . More than 10 thousand others already have, too. I was writing to a friend about my withdawal problems this past Saturday, and if you don’t mind, I’m going to cut and paste a bit of the letter here to tell my own tale.

Nothing could have prepared me for what I am going through.

Had to do some quickie shopping for–of all things–a dinner party we’re having tonight! Would have canceled if my guests weren’t like family to me. I have filled them in on the basics of my condition, so they will be ok if I cry or something. And I bet I will.

As long as all of our kids don’t see me like this. I’m talking Gene Hackman /French Connection hanging on for dear life crying/screaming into a pillow so they wouldn’t hear me in this distress. In my booth on the floor in a ball crying, shivers, high blood pressure and pulse, then low pulse, dizziness, more brain zaps, feel like bugs crawling all over me. S**tting ?or trying to–till the toilet was red with blood.

The first couple days–those in which I was communicating with you, and the rest of the world–were uncomfortable, but manageable. Even now, I have not lost my sense of humor. But suddenly, things have changed.This is is day 8 of my going off of this drug, called Effexor ( Please Google “Effexor withdrawal””. Wish I had before ever taking a single capsule).