Posted by firemedic00 on August 26, 2003, at 21:24:28
In reply to Re: EFFEXOR side effects MISSED 2 DAYS « firemedic, posted by Kacy on August 26, 2003, at 18:05:17
Scary, Scary!!!! You are right on the money with what I was going through. Did you have any withdrawl effects when you decreased your dosage?.........how about increased anxiety with the reduction?
> I have worried about traveling and forgetting those pills. I only have about seven to ten hours before I begin getting sick. If I don't take the dose right away, I get progessively sicker until I have trouble standing up without needing to sit down. I feel nauseaus and flu-like.
>
> After taking the capsule, it usually takes up to three hours before I'm fine. However, if during that three hours I lie on my stomach (no pillow) and do not move, then I feel fine, too. Getting up for a minute or even lifting my head and moving it too much starts making me ill again. I have a reduced tolerance for the computer or television lights after I get past the worst of it. I can start feeling something like car-sickness if I do either of those things too soon after I get up.
>
> If I recognize the symptoms of a missed dose immediately and take the medication, I can recover without going to bed. I can't use the computer or watch television for awhile, but I can get around okay.
>
> The longer I go without taking that capsule, the longer the withdrawal recovery takes. Once, I never felt really well until the following morning.
>
> I have not forgotten a dose since I decreased to 75 mg. so I don't know if that will be easier.
>
> The above problems happened at 150 mg. At 225, my withdrawal problems with a missed dose happened on the same time schedule but included strange brain fritzes that I can only describe as interruptions of the visual feed. They happened quickly. I knew it happened when it was over. Life was like an old movie. The scene in front of me jerked to a new picture like some frames were cut out of an old movie reel. The view only moved a little but it was strange. I didn't miss any sound, but my brain definitely lost some visual data or slipped a gear in transferring some.
>
> Don't forget your Effexor.
poster:firemedic00
thread:252256
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030823/msgs/254517.html