Effexor withdrawal

I take effexor also, have ran out while waiting on refill was out for 4 days once I couldn't get out of bed was crying and depressed worse than ever, the day I got the refill all side effects were gone. Has this med helped u? I feel like I'm on auto pilot, never ups some downs but not as down as I got before taking it.

I have been on many anti-depressants. i have learned from experience not to go off any by myself. There is a certain system used to do so and you must follow it religiously. It is not candy! One thing to remember too is that the pharmacy will give you any part of your perscription so that is always a good thing. Seasick having a hangover. What a party!

I was on effexor for some months, but I quit because I started to get severe chest pain. My psychiatrist wasn't sure that the chestpain was caused by Effexor, and he said that he had never heard about that sideeffect before. I insisted on quitting effexor and my chestpain has disappeared completely, so now I am sure that the two things were connected. I didn't get any withdrawel symptoms at all, but I hadn't been on Effexor for more than a few months and that is probably the reason why I was able I was able to quit without any problems. I was put Mirtazapin instead and that works much better for me. A couple of years ago I was also on Mirtazapin, but my psychiatrist thought that I was doing okay and that it was time for me to quit Mirtazapin. He told me to quit from one day to the next instead of doing it more slowly, and that was a big mistake. I had some very serious withdrawel symptoms. My depression become worse than ever and I got some weird thoughts which are hard to explain. It become hard for me to determine what was real and what was not real, and those thoughts were very hard for me to deal with. That experience taught me how important it is to quit slowly (step by step)