Posted by Cetacea on December 18, 2003, at 9:11:23
In reply to Re: ya effexor withdrawl account, posted by jiggitykid on December 18, 2003, at 8:20:40
Hi, Effexor-survivors, all:
Well, it's been about 3-4 weeks since my last 75mg effexor XR, and I'm still going thru some "effects" from getting off the stuff. Yesterday I went to see "The Last Samurai". Even before the movie began, I had trouble with the visual images in the "previews" they show. Some of the special effects seemed to affect *me* a little bit like the 'mind-zaps' (brain shivers, to some degree) that were so bad when stopping Effexor. Then, in the last 15 mins of the movie, along came a *big bad aura* heralding the onset of a notable migraine headache. I'm sitting here suffering right now, but the fact that I AM here says it must not be THAT bad, and looking at a CRT is an additional *trigger* for migraine pain for me. But I have a need to share this. In a very recent post to this thread, someone very generously gave a link to some british (I think)studies or comments about Effexor and the problems it gives when one goes w/o it (as in skips a dose or goes *cold turkey*). Anyway, I took a hop there and was interested in the reports people made. One person said he/she had a self-tested theory that *body movement* doesn't cause those pesky brain shivers, but that it's the *visual movement*, movement across one's visual field. I guess that a combo of the 2 could make it hard to detect which causes what. [This is NOT to say that the 'brain shivers' don't occur all by themselves, w/o any 'triggers' at all: I think they can and DO] I have a history of migraine headaches across most of my lifetime (mostly the kind w/the visual effects, "auras", but some like a sinus headache from the Hot Spot where they say the Devil ;) lives). In the last decade most of my aura-migraines have not been this painful. They have not had the quantity or quality IMO of "special effects" in the aura that this one had. Yes, it is that 'stressful time of year', and maybe that caused it, but it sure reminded me of something attached to those dreadful mind-zaps.
I'm almost afraid to walk into another movie, and had wanted so much to see LOTR-Return of the King, as a diversion from the realities of the season that are not exactly cheerful around here. If I went to see it today (over 3 hrs of that movie), I'd be walking in, ALREADY with a headache. I guess I'll wait for a while.
BTW, I've gotten pretty comfortable driving at this point in w/drawal, but it was tricky for a while, esp at night. For about the first 2-3 days I voluntarily *avoided* getting behind the wheel, and I suggest that others give that some thought, when considering when and how to carry-off getting Effexor outta their systems.
Hope this helps somebody.
poster:Cetacea
thread:12459
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20031213/msgs/291243.html