Daven
12-01-05, 12:40 PM
Well I've recently decided to get off of both wellbutrin and effexor. While they seem to help somewhat with concentration (wellbutrin) and very mild social problems (effexor), they simply leave me in a slight haze, and mess up my sleeping patters so much its not worth it anymore.
I recently came to houston, and im going to be participating in Astronautics training at NASA. It means getting up at 5, and going to bed at 11, and plenty of work in between. :D So hopefully getting off these medications will help me with my sleeping patterns and memory. Ive decided to make a log because many people seem to have issues with getting off these drugs. (aka, withdraw)
So heres where I am atm.
About 4 weeks ago I started tapering off effexor and wellbutrin. Wellbutrin, I just halfed, and halfed again in the 2nd 2 week section.
Effexor, made some VERY noticable effects tapering off. (Let me note however, that its hard to make a distinction between what effects are caused by what medication, however, by my dosage changing, its easiest to relate it to the effexor.)
I hafled the effexor, then every week, took 1/4 of the remaining, untill yesterday, now I am totaly off both medications.
A few notes on the withdraw problems. Im having quite a bit of dizzy spells, usualy only lasting 3-4 seconds, but still very anoying. Mostly when I turn my head at any speed past crawl, but almost alwase when switching my eyes from side to side. And its not fully described by dizziness, but its close. Its a very *odd* dizziness. Secondly, I dont seem to have much in terms of concentration and energy. Went to workout this morning, could hardly get up (after sleeping till 7:30, 2 and a half hours past my alarm, this is VERY unusual for me) and when I got there, coudnt finish my training. Also, there is a very odd change in sound when this happend. It seem like for a split second, sounds become more noticable. Take for instance, my air conditioner. When I get the dizzy spell, I can suddenly hear the rattle of the vent, but thats the only thing mangified, any other noise seem to stay the same volume. Quite strange.
Stimulants, at this point, seem to have a mute effect at best on my energy. Today tried 15mg dex (simi high for me) with hardly feeling a thing.
As far as mood changes go, im starting to see how lacking in emotion I was while on the medication. Or maybe thats just part of the withdraw, not too sure.
Anyway, ill post daily on how its going. Also, anyone thats gone through simi the same thing, if you could post how long it took the withdraw to be over for you, it would be much appreshiated.
I recently came to houston, and im going to be participating in Astronautics training at NASA. It means getting up at 5, and going to bed at 11, and plenty of work in between. :D So hopefully getting off these medications will help me with my sleeping patterns and memory. Ive decided to make a log because many people seem to have issues with getting off these drugs. (aka, withdraw)
So heres where I am atm.
About 4 weeks ago I started tapering off effexor and wellbutrin. Wellbutrin, I just halfed, and halfed again in the 2nd 2 week section.
Effexor, made some VERY noticable effects tapering off. (Let me note however, that its hard to make a distinction between what effects are caused by what medication, however, by my dosage changing, its easiest to relate it to the effexor.)
I hafled the effexor, then every week, took 1/4 of the remaining, untill yesterday, now I am totaly off both medications.
A few notes on the withdraw problems. Im having quite a bit of dizzy spells, usualy only lasting 3-4 seconds, but still very anoying. Mostly when I turn my head at any speed past crawl, but almost alwase when switching my eyes from side to side. And its not fully described by dizziness, but its close. Its a very *odd* dizziness. Secondly, I dont seem to have much in terms of concentration and energy. Went to workout this morning, could hardly get up (after sleeping till 7:30, 2 and a half hours past my alarm, this is VERY unusual for me) and when I got there, coudnt finish my training. Also, there is a very odd change in sound when this happend. It seem like for a split second, sounds become more noticable. Take for instance, my air conditioner. When I get the dizzy spell, I can suddenly hear the rattle of the vent, but thats the only thing mangified, any other noise seem to stay the same volume. Quite strange.
Stimulants, at this point, seem to have a mute effect at best on my energy. Today tried 15mg dex (simi high for me) with hardly feeling a thing.
As far as mood changes go, im starting to see how lacking in emotion I was while on the medication. Or maybe thats just part of the withdraw, not too sure.
Anyway, ill post daily on how its going. Also, anyone thats gone through simi the same thing, if you could post how long it took the withdraw to be over for you, it would be much appreshiated.