Day 28 Easter Sunday... And a Season of Renewal
Today was beautiful. The sun was shining, it was warm, it felt as if a new life would soon consume me.
I want so very much for this phase to be over. Again though,....I need Patience.
We went out to breakfast this morning, which has become our regular routine on Sundays as it is so often that hubby works 6 days a week and he is a SUNDAY BREAKFAST person...It's something he likes to do! I settled for "comfort food" myself. I actually had some mashed potatoes and gravy...Something I never dare to do because of all this weight but, after the week I have had, I felt I certainly deserved that much. It was good too... Obviously I was NOT NAUSEOUS!
We went for a drive after eating and ended up at the Casino 25 miles away. We stayed for about an hour and came out with about $30.00 more than we had going in, so that was a pleasant surprise, but for me it was just a nice feeling to be out and about. As we were leaving the Casino though, I began to feel dizzy again ... So I took it easy the rest of the day.
Once we got home I sat down to read the mail I have received the past 3 days... On average about 10-15 new people write each day after seeing one of my posts or my Blog. If you are one of them and I have not written back to you please forgive me...I am having trouble staying caught up on my responses. I will try to get to your letter soon!
I appreciate that you are all sharing your stories, helping with my research which many of you have asked about, so I will tell you how my project began...
About a year ago, I started my online search for answers to some medical problems I was having...night sweats, vivid dreams, "electric-like" shocks in my head, just to mention a FEW. I didn't even think to associate my ailments with any medication I was taking, but rather began by checking out a range of illnesses and diseases. I learned quite a bit too...About BRAIN TUMORS, STOMACH CANCER, SYMPTOMS ASSOCIATED WITH MENOPAUSE, AND I WAS ALWAYS RESEARCHING A NEW DIET.
I am not certain how it happened exactly, but one day while I was searching for information on one of my many ailments (and I have never been a hypocondriac), I somehow stumbled onto an article about the side effects of antidepressant drugs. Well, THERE WERE MY ANSWERS... Almost all of the things I was experiencing SINGLY, were now shown in a list COLLECTIVELY, as being SIDE EFFECTS from prescription antidepressant medication.
I couldn't believe my eyes! I spent the next few days in front of my computer and now that I had the "key," I was unlocking all sorts of information. I read and I read and I read. And then, based on all the information I had accumulated... I knew what I had to do...
I would quit taking my Effexor!
I had it planned. I had read some very sketchy descriptions about what "withdrawal" was like. Sketchy, I assumed, because once someone was going through withdrawal, or had gone through it, it was probably not a priority for them to return to the forums and boards and continue posting, to give a full accounting of the process they had experienced. Even after all my reading I still knew very little about withdrawal but I did know that this was not something one should do "COLD TURKEY." In September, after 1 year on Effexor XR, I was ready to start weaning myself off gradually,under my Dr.'s care, of course, when out of nowhere my husband was transferred with his job.
Packing, moving, and unpacking, consumed me for the next 2 months and then, when we had just settled in, the house we were "sitting" miraculously SOLD the day before Thanksgiving. (We were told before moving into this home to plan on staying until the market here picked up in THE SPRING, as we are in SNOW COUNTRY!)
Back to house hunting, packing, moving, and unpacking, not to mention that the Christmas Holiday Season was now upon us and our son and his wife were coming for a week. I couldn't even think about getting off my Effexor now...it would have to wait until after the New Year!
(More on my research tomorrow....)
And thanks to both of my wonderful sons who keep checking in on their mom!
beach-lover@verizon.net
read and sign the EFFEXOR PETITION
Today was beautiful. The sun was shining, it was warm, it felt as if a new life would soon consume me.
I want so very much for this phase to be over. Again though,....I need Patience.
We went out to breakfast this morning, which has become our regular routine on Sundays as it is so often that hubby works 6 days a week and he is a SUNDAY BREAKFAST person...It's something he likes to do! I settled for "comfort food" myself. I actually had some mashed potatoes and gravy...Something I never dare to do because of all this weight but, after the week I have had, I felt I certainly deserved that much. It was good too... Obviously I was NOT NAUSEOUS!
We went for a drive after eating and ended up at the Casino 25 miles away. We stayed for about an hour and came out with about $30.00 more than we had going in, so that was a pleasant surprise, but for me it was just a nice feeling to be out and about. As we were leaving the Casino though, I began to feel dizzy again ... So I took it easy the rest of the day.
Once we got home I sat down to read the mail I have received the past 3 days... On average about 10-15 new people write each day after seeing one of my posts or my Blog. If you are one of them and I have not written back to you please forgive me...I am having trouble staying caught up on my responses. I will try to get to your letter soon!
I appreciate that you are all sharing your stories, helping with my research which many of you have asked about, so I will tell you how my project began...
About a year ago, I started my online search for answers to some medical problems I was having...night sweats, vivid dreams, "electric-like" shocks in my head, just to mention a FEW. I didn't even think to associate my ailments with any medication I was taking, but rather began by checking out a range of illnesses and diseases. I learned quite a bit too...About BRAIN TUMORS, STOMACH CANCER, SYMPTOMS ASSOCIATED WITH MENOPAUSE, AND I WAS ALWAYS RESEARCHING A NEW DIET.
I am not certain how it happened exactly, but one day while I was searching for information on one of my many ailments (and I have never been a hypocondriac), I somehow stumbled onto an article about the side effects of antidepressant drugs. Well, THERE WERE MY ANSWERS... Almost all of the things I was experiencing SINGLY, were now shown in a list COLLECTIVELY, as being SIDE EFFECTS from prescription antidepressant medication.
I couldn't believe my eyes! I spent the next few days in front of my computer and now that I had the "key," I was unlocking all sorts of information. I read and I read and I read. And then, based on all the information I had accumulated... I knew what I had to do...
I would quit taking my Effexor!
I had it planned. I had read some very sketchy descriptions about what "withdrawal" was like. Sketchy, I assumed, because once someone was going through withdrawal, or had gone through it, it was probably not a priority for them to return to the forums and boards and continue posting, to give a full accounting of the process they had experienced. Even after all my reading I still knew very little about withdrawal but I did know that this was not something one should do "COLD TURKEY." In September, after 1 year on Effexor XR, I was ready to start weaning myself off gradually,under my Dr.'s care, of course, when out of nowhere my husband was transferred with his job.
Packing, moving, and unpacking, consumed me for the next 2 months and then, when we had just settled in, the house we were "sitting" miraculously SOLD the day before Thanksgiving. (We were told before moving into this home to plan on staying until the market here picked up in THE SPRING, as we are in SNOW COUNTRY!)
Back to house hunting, packing, moving, and unpacking, not to mention that the Christmas Holiday Season was now upon us and our son and his wife were coming for a week. I couldn't even think about getting off my Effexor now...it would have to wait until after the New Year!
(More on my research tomorrow....)
And thanks to both of my wonderful sons who keep checking in on their mom!
beach-lover@verizon.net
read and sign the EFFEXOR PETITION
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