Hello,
New here, very happy to find a board on Antidepressants help, etc.
I'm on Effexor since 2001, reasons was some events at my job/familly. I was an airline pilot and had to completely stop flighing because of «legal» raisons FAA/MOT (in Canada). I've tried so many times to withdraw the meds but with no success. Now there is a door opening from Ministry of transports here in Canada as well as in the USA for pilots using those drugs, under certain conditions a pilot could go back flighing using certain type of AD. There are Celexa, Prozac, Millburin, Luvox and EScitalopram, Effexor is not on that list..
I would have the choice to switch meds or better find a way to stop them completely!! I've tried Celexa for 2-3 weeks and lowering the Effexor but it is getting difficult so I decided to stop that and resume with Effexor, that AD works very well with me (no symptoms) but I can't technicaly go back flighing my airplanes.
I think I will try to fight this with MOT as my Dr, pharmacist thinks it is not a good thing to change something that works for an other but at the end I would so much like to stop the meds completly.
cheers
JF