Reply #63: Effexor is horrible to quit Cold Turkey.

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These are the withdrawal symptoms that I've had to deal with:

"Brain shivers", which feels sort of like a short circuit, or an electric shock, in your head. There's no other way I can describe it.

Feeling frightful and tense.

Bad, horribly anxious, dreams. According to my boyfriend, I was twitching and yelping in my sleep. I remembered that it was a NIGHTMARE.
When I awoke, I told him what my NIGHTMARE was about: "Everyone was offended because I put a half eaten loaf of bread into a bag."
:shrug:

Mild confusion and short term memory problems.

Nausea.

What's Great about Lowering the Dose / Quitting :

I feel more like "myself" again.

I feel more motivated.

I'm more emotional (okay, when you're really sad, I understand that a drug is helpful to make you feel less emotional, but now that I'm not really, really sad anymore, why should I snuff out my emotions?)