I feel like doctors are gaslighting me about withdrawal effects

I've been in a slow process of quitting fluvoxamine, and everytime I've lowered my dose, I've had some nasty withdrawal symptoms. I told a psychiatrist and a doctor about them, and they both told me that antidepressants don't have any withdrawal effects, that the symptoms I'm experiencing are my depression and anxiety coming back, which is ridiculous considering I had never before in my life had vertigo, aside from the times that I tapered my dose. I got a week worth of symptoms such as migraine, vertigo, shortness of breath, among others, everytime that I've tapered, and then they just went away. But I'm supposed to think it's my mental illness provoking those symptoms?

Has anyone else had a similar experience? Or do you think they're in the right? I think psychiatrists should listen to patients more, instead or relying solely on the information they get from pharmaceutical companies.