It’s now December 18, 2010 and I’ve been weaning myself off Effexor for over a month and my milligrams are down to 30 mg. For the first two-three weeks it wasn’t so much fun. There’s was a pattern of its effects it been time released.
My mornings start with a cup of coffee, checking my blood sugar, and taking my Bipolar, high blood pressure, antidepressants, including Effexor. After about 2 hours taking Effexor I would get nauseous, along with a sudden feeling of fatigue. Where ever I was at the time, I would have to stop and take time out and then after a while, I would try to get home. Once home I’d hit the bed an sleep for a few hours. It seemed the medicine would kick in again in the evening, but this time with a spurt of energy sometimes with anxiety. I would stay up until late – sometimes 3 or 4am. I would have to take a anxiety pill, Lorespam. I hated it.
Each week I would take a granule out lowering the dosage. Today, I’m at 30 mg and I think that’s where I’ll stay. When I tried to go lower I would have memory problems, confusion, etc. In fact, I felt like my bipolar was worse. My memory is getting worse, but I’m not sure from what. I have parents, grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles who all had Alzheimer’s/Demenaiaa. When you have so many issues going on it’s hard to single out what disease is causing the problem. That is so frustrating to me.
I’ll keep trying to make this antidepressant work, because it does work you just have to find the right dosage. I think if I went off of it completely it would be a bad idea. Maybe one day. I’ve hard some horror stories and I don’t want to b e one of them. So, I’ll continue counting out the tiny beads and take my dosage, but I’ll save the leftovers just in case. I don’t have insurance and this medicine is expensive.
Why do we need to have pills to function our lives? I’m so tired of it! My genetics have played a role in most of my illnesses and disease. Something that I’ll take with me to my grave, but that won’t be soon. I still have a lot of life in me to play with my grand children who are an important factor in my life. I’ll keep trying to live and not lay down to die.
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