okay, so today after my morning writhing on the bathroom floor with toxic stomach cramps and uncontrollable vomiting, missing yet another day of work i've decided i've motherfucking had enough.

so i went to the pharmacy to fill my million and one other prescriptions and decided to take the plunge and get the effexor..

BUT, before you freak out...

i also went to the web of life (holistic hippy store) and got some empty gel caps. i'm going to fucking beat this shit with a motherfucker stick (not to be confused with a casual stick, heh)...

so we came home and i actually sat there and popped open the effexor cap (a'la [livejournal.com profile] psychogranny) and counted out granules and made a 5 week weaning off plan out of 3 150mg caplets. kinda pointless to fill the whole prescription but they wouldn't let me do a partial (so if anyone needs some 150mg effexor i got the hook up).

so right now i'm at 37.5mg a day for 8 days beginning today. then 18.75mg for 8 days, 9.375mg the next 8 day increment and so on and so on. the last caplets i made only had 7 granules in each caplet.

so i took the first one a few hours ago. the brain shocks have stopped, i'm still a little nauseous but i'm able to live.

so now that i've curbed the DS a bit i've come across a startling discovery...


BACK SURGERY FUCKING HURTS!!!!! i didn't even realize how sore i was until all the other shit stopped. i'd still rather have this that the fucking DS's that i had for the past three weeks.

but yeah, i guess having a light saber jammed into your spinal cord might make you a little sore, heh.

thanks to everyone that listened/read and cared the past most terrible weeks of my life. you all rule.

thank you thank you thank you!

From: [identity profile] dyadfaerie.livejournal.com


Glad that you're on the road to better-ness. :)

*hug*

From: [identity profile] radiation88.livejournal.com


Hopefully once your back heals up you'll feel much better.

I had the worst time getting off Effexor myself. yuck.
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