Posted by Snowdancer on June 30, 2000, at 22:36:05
In reply to Re: Effexor-side effects, posted by Lesley on June 30, 2000, at 19:21:45
> I started Effexor about 2 months ago and was up to 150mg day and I was also already taking Trazodone for sleep. I had about a half a dozen days where I would get a wierd dizziness off and on throughout the day. It started up again one night while laying in bed and actually made my eyes roll downward for a second. In the morning, the "episodes of dizziness" progressed to the point where it was happening constantly. It was almost like an electical charge in my brain and getting dizzy was an after-effect of these charges. It got to the point where I was feeling tingling down my right arm to my palm & fingertips whenever I got the "charges". I slowly discontinued using Effexor and I've been back on Prozac for a couple days now and I've never had any side effects from that. Has anybody ever had this type of experience with Effexor?
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> I also have nightmares (waking up with my fists clenched), night sweats and see "trails" sometimesOH Most definately! People call them everything from
brain spikes to nerve spikes in the brain to brain
flashes, oh it's unreal! We all no exactly what
the other person is trying to describe as soon as they
start! It's unreal, I hated going back on this med
after all the he!! I went through while going off
it, and never went through any of it with prozac. My
dr blew a gasket when I took myself off though and
a couple mo later told me to go back on it so I did
since I was in the hptl due to crashing hard and
trying to od. I really had to listen to his advice
at that point and to keep my husband satisfied. yes
I remember all to well the dizzy episodes where I
would just turn my head or even move my eyes from
one object to another and get them brain flashes,
nerve spikes, what ever they are! And the sweating
is horrid not to mention the nightmares. I think
I'm better off not taking this stuff but then I
hit rock bottom when coming off it. The only reason
I quit prozac (my miracle pill!) was my body seemed
to build up a tolerance to it and I gained 30 lbs.
which added to my depression ofcourse! Well good
luck to you, feel free to email me if you have any
addl questions! snowdancer@ameritech.net :)
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