Old posts and info are back up!
09.05.04 (5:16 pm) [edit]
Well, tBLOG has redeemed itself, at least for now. The old posts are back! That means that all the resources and information I had compiled are again accessible through the links on the left.
Yay!
Yay!
posted by: UnSane (reply)
post date: 10.11.04 (7:28 pm)
I'm glad to find this blog. Hell on on 2 feet is what I've been through the past 4 days since I quit taking this horrid medicine. I'd been on Prozac off and on (as we all do to ourselves) for years and had gradually gained 20 lbs. So 2 months ago I decided to try Effexor because the Dr said it wouldn't cause weight gain as easily as Prozac. Ha-big HA! I gained 15 lbs in 2 months and felt awful. So I decide to "take myself off it" 4 days ago. OMG! So light-headed I'm afraid to drive or stand, I walk 100 ft to feed the horses and have to rest before I can walk back. This is the most horrendously AWFUL & scariest thing I've gone through. Until I looked up Effexor withdrawal on the net an hour ago I had completely convinced myself that my husband was poisoning me. I was going to start watching every move he made when he cooked or was around my coffee pot. God! I can't even turn my head to look at the clock from the computer without getting real dizzy and feeling like I'm going to throw up. The ringing in my hears is driving me crazy. The 1/2 life of Prozac is 6 wks, aside from the depression always returning 2 months later I never had *any withdrawal whatsoever when going off Prozac. And believe me-I had lots of practice going off it :-/ I don't know if I can get through this, I really don't. I feel like I'm having a damn heart attack. I've never had panic attacks in my life but I feel like I'm on the verge of screaming (& God knows what else) non-stop the past 4 days. Everytime I look back down at the keyboard my head spins and I can't see straight. What the ?????? I was only on this stuff for 2 months! Oh I hate it, I just hate it. The depression is every bit as worse as what drove me to Prozac in the 1st place. I just want to be normal and not have to take medicine to be like everyone else. I hate this.