Monday, May 19, 2008

Max: No Money + No Meds * Stupidity = My Weekend

Discontinuation symptoms have been systematically evaluated in patients taking venlafaxine, to include prospective analyses of clinical trials in Generalized Anxiety Disorder and retrospective surveys of trials in major depressive disorder. Abrupt discontinuation or dose reduction of venlafaxine at various doses has been found to be associated with the appearance of new symptoms, the frequency of which increased with increased dose level and with longer duration of treatment. Reported symptoms include agitation, anorexia, anxiety, confusion, coordination impaired, diarrhea, dizziness, dry mouth, dysphoric mood, fasciculation, fatigue, headaches, hypomania, insomnia, nausea, nervousness, nightmares, sensory disturbances (including shock-like electrical sensations), somnolence, sweating, tremor, vertigo, and vomiting.

It is somewhat disturbing to find out;

A) I am a drug addict, prescribed or not

and

2) I am even more feeble than I thought I was.

5 Comments:

Blogger Jericho Brown said...

I hope you aren't dead yet! :)

May 19, 2008 10:15 PM  
Blogger Max Dobberstein said...

I don't think I am. If I am, Hell was significantly overhyped.

May 20, 2008 7:51 AM  
Blogger Laura said...

See? This is why I don't like taking pills. They fuck with the chemicals in your brain and may possibly make them WORSE. When I changed my dose (per doctors orders), it made me nuts. Lucky for Jericho, he was in town. I don't see how this sort of thing can ever be considered good. But now that he's addicted, we have to keep him in supply. I just am doing my best not to get addicted.

May 20, 2008 12:55 PM  
Blogger Max Dobberstein said...

If only I could return to that perfect state I was in before anti-depressants came along and ruined me.

May 20, 2008 1:01 PM  
Blogger Laura said...

Yeah... but that episode you had w/o the anti-depressants was far, far, far worse.

May 24, 2008 1:22 PM  

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