Posted by tina on May 23, 2003, at 10:33:54
Effexor is taking away my panic quite nicely but the side effect is apathy. I can't seem to care what happens to me or around me. I can still get stressed about work but I don't care what the outcome. I watch myself ballooning in weight but don't care what I put in my mouth, relationships with other people are falling apart but I don't care to fix it and I can sometimes just stare into space doing nothing for hours. there's a voice in my head saying "what are you doing? why are you just sitting there" but still I sit and stare.
It's like I'm outside of myself watching and waiting for this other person I see to do something about all of this but she doesn't. Is this a normal side effect of this drug or should I change meds? I also have extremely itchy skin. I can't stop scratching to the point of bleeding.Is it time to get off effexor and try something else?
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