Posted by Tool on April 24, 2002, at 18:23:04
I wrote some time ago about problems with coming off dexedrine and effexor and having problems with "brain shivers" and extreme fatigue. Well, it's now been a couple weeks since I stopped these medications. For about 3 days, I had those withdrawal symptoms, but they went away. Now, about 8 days ago, I went out for a good time and took some percocets (4 5/325mg pills, actually), which I had done many times before without problems. I started to feel sick at my stomach, and that continued through the next day, and also I noticed that the brain shivers came back. Two days after that night, my nausea was gone, but the brain shivers were still slightly there. This is where the story gets kinda bad. That night, I took a small quantity of mushrooms (about 1.7 grams of dried Psilocybe Cubensis, for all you mycophiles out there). I proceeded to have a bad trip, which sucks but is usually not very problematic. Well, the day after that, I was severely nauseated and those damnable brain shivers were intense and frequent. Every day after that, they got worse and worse. It's gotten to the point where if I even move my eyes, it feels like a taser attached to my brain going off for a half-second or so. I've got an appointment with an ENT doctor to see if it's some crazy inner ear infection or something, but I think it's odd that these things happened concurrent to my drug use, illicit or otherwise. I guess my question is has anyone had problems with brain shivers becoming more intense with time after stopping effexor, and has anyone had similar experiences with opioids or hallucinogens? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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