Anyone off their pills and still suffering like me ?

[dwt7let]

Hi All
Came off effexor cold turkey and was ill and couldn't function. Now weaned off dolsulipin and its eight weeks off but still suffering these pills are evil if we had been on drugs or drink we'd be alright now but not with these evil things as they effect brain chemistry.
I have exhaustion, sleep is effected and moods are up and down no wonder people are stuck in the cycle of taking them because its a hard road to recovery and to feel normal again, what ever normal is !!
But long term effect of these drugs causes anxiety/depression to become worse because you become tablet sick, i
should know as i couldn't funtion and had days in bed.
Please god for all of us suffering please help us !!
Love
Lorraine xx

[4Maddie44]

Thanks, I agree with you entirely.  Yes certain anti-depressants have had a bad effect on me, but I kept trying different ones, until I was put on one with no side effects, and which suits me.  Hurrah, my depression is much improved and I have no anxiety and panic attacks which plagued me before.

Fed up with people calling drugs evil.  How can they be if so many people take them and feel so much better?  Everything you have said, I have said myself.  We all have our own points of view, and I don't think we can pursuade some people that these anti-depressants help so many people.  I wouldn't take anything into my body I thought was evil.  Hurrah, you agree with me.  Thanks.

[Anneinside]

I am a bit tired of hearing that certain drugs are "evil" which is Profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, esp. when regarded as a supernatural force, the most common definition. Some drugs are not good for certain people and life savers for other people. I would like to start hearing more in the lines of "XX didn't work for me and gave me bad side effects" "XX was a bad drug for me". Evil implies that it has a action that is on purpose. The evil drug made me worse. Would you say the immoral drug did that? No because drugs are not immoral, nor are they evil.

[4Maddie44]

Prozac was, for me, the worst drug I ever took.  On the other hand, Effexor has saved my life.

So you think reading books is better than going to see a doctor?  They know better do they?  You are not suffering from depression then?  How do you know that?  

Anti depressants are not dangerous.  Many people rely on them.  

Oh boy, you are so negative about medication.  Hope you survive without then.  

[sickntired74]

i blame the drugs. was on paxil for 15 yrs and prozac for 2. make no mistake about it. these pills are dangerous. been off prozac 4 mos and am paranoid 24 hrs a day severe akathisia severe anxiety etc. IT IS NOT THE RETURN OF UR DEPRESSION. dont ever listen to a doctor. research this urself. check out books by peter breggin or robert whitaker. read first hand how the drug prozac really got fda approval. good luck to ya

[4Maddie44]

Unfortunately, for many of us depression will never go away.  I have stopped medication, only for depression to return.  The longest I went without anti-depressants was a year.

You talk as if it is the medications fault that you feel like you do.  That you became too dependant on it.  Have you not considered that you need medication because you are depressed.  You are not dependant on the drug as such, you need it because you are ill.

We all want to believe we can be "normal" again and stop our anti-depressant, and then are disappointed when depression comes back.  Sounds like that is the case with you.

Please don't blame drugs that have helped you when you are ill.  Accept that they helped, and you struggle without them.

How can you call them evil.  Without Effexor I would probably have taken my own life.  I don't think it is evil, I think it is a great help.

Your choice if you don't want to take anti-depressants, if you think you can cope without.  Or can you?

[Anneinside]

We have to remember why we started medications to begin with. For me, I was depressed and suicidal, then manic and getting into financial trouble. I got on medications because I was desperate. I am not desperate and I am staying on the medications. The only time you run into trouble is when you are coming off the medications. If they work why stop taking them. If they aren't working then there may be some discomfort/sickness coming off them but it isn't only psych drugs that can do that. Many drugs are difficult to stop.

[remar]

I can relate to what you're going through. Many of these meds are hard to come off of. But, many of them do help us with depression and anxiety. I wish none of us had to go through any of this also.