Re: Effexor Withdrawal = Depression and Anxiety!! – Naturopathic Medicine Network

Posted by laurie on 04/04/05 at 06:29 PM

i am 18 years old, and going through the same thing. i was taken off of 150 slowly, over a course of 3 weeks. i had EXTREME vertigo/dizziness to the point where i could barely walk or turn my head. it has been about 3 weeks without the drug. now, i am experiencing extreme depression, to the point where i am more depressed than i was before they put me on the drug. i have OCD also, and since I have gone off meds that too has gone out of control. i need help, i need to know that this will go away and i will be happy again, and that this isn’t just how i am. it’s like everything is just too intense for me and i can’t handle it. i don’t want to go back on meds, but i also don’t want to feel like crap for the rest of my life. why wasn’t i told that these sort of symptoms might happen? if you could email me and give me any sort of advice, anything at all, or any hopeful words, please please please do.