<story><title>Withdrawal from Antidepressants</title><url>https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/12/withdrawal-from-antidepressants/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vomitcuddle</author><text>As someone who had to abruptly come off venlafaxine due to side effects, I can tell you that it was complete hell. I experienced vomiting, the weirdest, most horrible nightmares every night, sleep paralysis with hallucinations and a recurring feeling of &amp;quot;electic shocks&amp;quot; inside my head. This lasted about a month. I think it borders on inhumane not to mention possible withdrawal symptoms before prescribing this awful &amp;quot;anti-&amp;quot;depressant.&lt;p&gt;My doctor eventually prescribed me trazodone, so I could just sleep the withdrawals off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>butterfinger</author><text>Venlafaxine seems to be one of the worst SNRIs&amp;#x2F;SSRIs wrt discontinuation syndrome. Except for the nausea, I had the same experiences when quitting cold turkey. The most problematic symptom for me were the &amp;quot;electric shocks&amp;quot; when moving my eyes or head to fast.&lt;p&gt;For me, getting off venlafaxine was way harder than quitting tilidine, tramadol or the z-drugs.</text></comment>
<story><title>Withdrawal from Antidepressants</title><url>https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/12/withdrawal-from-antidepressants/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vomitcuddle</author><text>As someone who had to abruptly come off venlafaxine due to side effects, I can tell you that it was complete hell. I experienced vomiting, the weirdest, most horrible nightmares every night, sleep paralysis with hallucinations and a recurring feeling of &amp;quot;electic shocks&amp;quot; inside my head. This lasted about a month. I think it borders on inhumane not to mention possible withdrawal symptoms before prescribing this awful &amp;quot;anti-&amp;quot;depressant.&lt;p&gt;My doctor eventually prescribed me trazodone, so I could just sleep the withdrawals off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcjiggerlog</author><text>I went through a similar experience (although not as extreme) when coming off of citalopram, even with a doctor&amp;#x27;s guidance.&lt;p&gt;Lots of nausea and disorientation, but worst of all were the &amp;quot;electric shocks&amp;quot;  which really were very disturbing.&lt;p&gt;Not a single mention of these when having the medicine prescribed!</text></comment>