Posted by RealTim on March 3, 2003, at 19:18:15
In reply to Withdrawal - revisit of my earlier side effects, posted by sly on March 3, 2003, at 8:15:18
> Hi Everyone,
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> I was on 75 mgs for about 11 months, went to 37.5 for 3 weeks and now I've been off for about one week. The side effects are minimal but I seem to be rapidly cycling through all my earlier side effects when I first went on the medication.
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> I'm having insomnia, this is the worst, I haven't slept for about 3 weeks, I got to bed at 10pm (no exercise, no caffeine etc. for 4 hours before bed) and I usually wake up around 1 or 2am and can't fall back asleep. I'm having night sweats again, and sometimes during the day I can actually feel my body temp rising. My sex drive is fine, but I'm inorgasmic again.
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> This is very frustrating to me, I have no dizziness or headaches, but I'm being revisited by all my worst symptoms of the past. Anyone else had this happen?
Very interesting. When I go off Effexor I di not experience the effects I had when I first went on it (sexual dysfunction and yawns)Didn't I read some posts that you can mitigate the withdrawal effects by tapering and supplementing with other things? Benadryl, Prozac 10mg, etc?
I tried to quit my 150mg daily morning doses after @ 6 months this weekend. Didn't fly. As I posted above, the dizzy light headedness set in. I tried to sleep Saturday night and literally what a nightmare! Went to bed and barely slept more than 3 hours, woke up constantly from troubling nightmares. Things like hearing intruders in the house to having a heart attack to the kids being in danger. No happy dreams.
The "sea sickness" was so bad the next day, i took a half a dose and gradually got better.
I took another half dose today and will see if I can taper off further.
I hate being dependent on a pricey drug that no one truly knows the long term effects of. Liver damage? I hope not.
Is there a database where you can enter the drugs you've tried and the side effects and they track patterns? It seems that these studies they do are so limited in size.
For example, I took Celexa and had immediate skin rashes and intense yawning and sexual side effects. Wellbutrin had almost zero side effects. If I entered that data, maybe someone could tell that based on my profile Effexor or some other drug would likely have "X" side effects.
Surely someone has thought of this? There must be patterns. I would be willing to enter all my personal info: age, health history, weight etc.
I work at an insurance company. I can do "data mining" to find out how many people have been in accidents of over 5mph after 5pm with 5 or less people in their car in the 5th month of 1995...why can't we create patient feedback databases that track drug interactions. Think of the fascinating things we could find out.
Sorry for the rambling. I will report in coming weeks how the cessation of medication progresses...
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