One thing I hate about migraine disease...

Oh Jenny. Lots of hugs adn love to you, my dear. What a horrible horrible thing you are going through. I cannot even imagine throwing up for days on end while felling as you described. And dealing with the Effexor withdrawl sounds really awful. You are a warrior, girl.

But, I know that even warriors get tired of unending crap-ola.

I have been having a rough time with meds too, not like you, but just getting through the day is hard with meds and my body freaking out and imagining that this stuff I'm going through may not be ending soon is unbearable. So, in a small way, I can sympathize what you are dealing with.

I wear a bracelet that is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson that says "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." I cannot remember if you are a christian or not, but the way I hear this quote is because I have God's Spirit inside me, nothing I have gone through or will have to go through can match up. I may not be able to do it, but He will be able to. And even if you aren't a christian, this bracelet reminds me to try to stay in today and not get caught up in the future or how I am going to handle it. Your task is to just live through today and take care of you.

I'm sending prayers up on your behalf that you have strength and endurance. My heart goes out to you, hon.

Love, Kelly

hi jenny,

how are you doing now?

i'm trying to stop effexor and am having a horrible time of it. i've quit smoking, quit drinking, quit sugar, and nothing compares to this. i count out granules and am stuck around 145 (appx 50mg). at first i thought that was low enough to stop altogether... after 3 days my body suddenly got ice cold with shivers, then drenched with sweat, brain became disorganized, and felt like my chest was slowly compressing front to back. i thought i was having a heart attack! i remembered the effexor and took about 75mg just to try it before going to the hospital. after 5 or 10 minutes i felt much better and craved sugar which i ate. then all was fine. im taking the 50mg daily still but even on this dose i get a lot of fibromyalgia and menopause symptoms in addition to the brain shivers and zaps. suggestions?

roxanne

OH my gosh...any doctor would tell you to get off effexor very slowly!!  it takes about a month to get used to the withdrawals...so go slow.....

you can end up in the hospital with side effects that turn very bad--my best friend did..she thought she could just stop taking it..wrong--she passed out but I knew what it was fromso I told them..they gave it to her in about 30 minutes..she was awake and talking again..whew..

we as humans try to prescribe for ourself--typical human thing..for all of us..((:>))

all medications have side effects but if the medicine works...take it---

I get so tired of all the commercials like Yaz, Viagara----blah blah..

telling everybody all the bad things on tv..like people are going to remember what they say.

I have been on it for 6 years now and I have tried to change and could not....

GOOD LUCK!!!  TAKE CARE!!