Posted by Godzilla on November 19, 2003, at 13:43:18
In reply to starting effexor... keep posting.. success/dosage?, posted by jp on October 25, 1999, at 12:01:53
> so I went to see my GP today (psychiatrist appointment
> is only in 2-3 weeks)... and got a prescription
> for effexor. the gp advised that I start on the
> normal version, at 37.5mg twice a day, and then,
> if I tolerate it, move to the XR version.
>
> Will such a low dose have any effect at all? what am
> I to expect. how soon does it produce a noticable
> and favourable effect? Anyone on such a low dose?
>
>I started it at that dose yesterday afternoon. About an hour after I started to feel floaty. Another hour past and my friend called. While talking to her I realized that nothing was going on in my head and I was really relaxed. That lasted the whole night and if i tried to think, my head would hurt. Something else that happened was when i was talking to people on the computer the back of my head started to tingle and my eyes teared up. When I turned off the light to go to sleep I started to see all these colors and patterns that kept changing and moving. My thoughts had then come back and i couldn't sleep, when i did get to sleep i woke up with a horrible stomach ache. When i woke up this morning i was swaeting, shaking, my eyes blurred things to a blue tint and I had headaches. I didn't have to go to school today because of this and I am the same as i was this morning without the shaking. I know this post hasn't helped you, but I was wondering if anyone knows whats going on with me, could they speak up? my parents called the doctor this morning, but he isn't returning calls till the afternoon.
this is the first time i've been put on anything and i am really scared. my mom says that the doctor probably didn't take into account that i am such a small person. i'm 14, five feet two inches and 94 lbs. i know that this group is not full of professionals, but has this happened to anyone else? my sister is on paxil and nothing like this happened to her when she started. but i guess that effexor xr is stronger?
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