IF THERE IS A LAWSUIT IM IN TEN YEARS OF BRAIN ZAPS AND AS I CAN SEE THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE SUFFERING AS I HAVE.
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I have been trying to get off my effexor and it's been hell for me I'm on the verge of losing my job. Let me know if u need anything to help push this through
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Ive suffered frim anxiety and depression most of my life and Im no stranger to medications and sideeffects but this drug is different. Insomnia, fatigue, hallucinations, loss of reality and panic and terror for kicks. You are better off putting a gun to your head
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Helen of Troy, I to was on effexor xr for 5 years and the last increase was to 300 mg. I was tapered off of it by a Psychologist over about a 5 week period.I asked to be taken off of it as I started having physical issues after the last increase. IT WAS A LIVING HELL. I took the last pill Sept. of 2017 and my life has been a living hell ever since. I was not told the side effects while on it and only told that it was one of the hardest to come off of when I asked to come off of it. I have made it through the brain zaps, sharp needle pokes all over my body, nausea, tremors, but still have ringing in my ears, HORRIBLE nightmares, can't remember things, anger to the point that my husband is about to leave. I also suffered physical problems. Swelling of the ankles and feet that was so painful I couldn't hardly walk and went to two different ER's and they couldn't find any cause for it. I went from 125 pounds to 166 and can't seem to get the weight off. I also have swelling and pain in the liver area but CT shows nothing. I had a doppler study on the veins and arteries in my legs, nothing found. They also did a special CT that shows a three dimensional view of the veins and arteries, nothing found. I kept telling my primary care Dr. it was due to the effexor withdraw . She was going to send me to a vein Dr. but had to wait three weeks to get in. A week before the appointment the swelling, discoloration and plaque build up was gone. She couldn't believe it and finally verbally agreed that it was the medication. I still suffer with vivid nightmares, memory loss and I am not the person I used to be at all. I wonder if I ever will be. This is poison not a medication to help people. I have not gone back on any antidepressant, as I will not put myself through that again. Good luck everyone. Another note, I no longer see the Psychologist or go to the mental health care facility here. I am taking it one day at a time and trying different ways of coping.
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Effexor ruined my daughter's life. She acted in compulsive ways she never had before. She had this compulsive need to get tattoos, and now she has finally weaned off, she believes she became a completely different person on this drug. She had to be hospitalized for 21/2 weeks to be able to come off of the drug. She had terrible suicidal moments while withdrawing, and painful brain shocks that would reverberate through her entire body. It was a living nightmare!
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This "helpful " drug has screwed my life completely. I gambled 50,000 and now am on different meds and have not looked back. I lost my job, i lost alot of friends as it made me a horrible person. Please let me know as i will be in it 100%
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I took Effexor for a few years and started to have terrible vomiting and stomach problems for years .. I couldn’t drive an hour without pulling over to throw up. The only relief I got was to lay in a very hot shower with the water hitting me in the stomach .. I spent hours in the shower for years lost a bunch of weight and finally saw another doctor ( shrink) who literally said Tj me he apologised for his profession. He switched me to lamactal and I was better in three days... this md is a highly trained Harvard md with specialty in phyco pharmacy. Still on lamactal and vivance now...
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I have memory problems and from Effort. Including Going to prison for a adverse reaction. My lawyer said i needed to get parole and say on it, the Judge felt I needed 5 years. My appeals have either been a joke or never saw the light of court. I took it to the federal appellate court, were under new fed Gide lines it was throw out. Not even looked at. I have a file box with depositions and to show how it all did not happen. from Oregon's Secret Grand Jury to the fed appeal, I have documents to back up everything. Just need a court to hear me? but I am toxic in Oregon. no lawyer or officer of the court will help.
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Hi is there a law suit I can join from the Uk? Also having the same issues as other posters here.
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I also have lost my job, husband, and children to this drug. Am on day 21 stopping Effexor cold turkey. Don't know if it will get better. I'm doubting it will. I will never go back to taking Effexor! If the alternative is a bullet so be it
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I have been on 225 mg. Effexor XR since 2010 as well as Wellbutrin 150 mg I have reduced my effexor down to 75 mg and am now going with 75mg. one day 37.5 the next this will be for two weeks when we will introduce a prozac bridge until the effexor is stopped completely. It's easier to get off of prozac than effexor. I do agree that this kind of withdrawl horror was never mentioned in writing or vocally by my psychiatrist or my family physician. If I manage to break free of this curse I doubt seriously if I'll ever truly trust a doctor again. Aiming for drug free life including high blood pressure meds! I've had enough. I'll jump on any class action against the mfgr of effoxer if I see it in the news.
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I have been on Effexor for over 10 yrs. I just recently changed jobs and have no insurance and have stopped taking it. I am having horrible withdrawals going on one week.
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I have taken 150 mg effexor for over 10 years. Occasionally experienced brain zaps. I had doctors tell me over and over again there was no reason for my symptoms. They lioked at me as if I was crazy...like i was making up this brain zap thing. I didn know about the term Brain shivers/zaps until today! But over the last year these zaps gradually became much more frequent.
So, A couple months ago I expressed to my health care provider at the VA my desire to stop taking this medication as the frequen of shocks were more and more frequent. So now that I have weekends off it completely, my brain zaps are almost constant!!! Its a horrible thing. I hope and pray this problem will slow down and eventually go away.
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