Posted by joolstag on December 28, 2004, at 0:16:26
In reply to Re: effexor withdrawal symptoms, posted by Tek7 on December 26, 2004, at 9:51:43
Hi, I'm new here, I just found you all after googling "effexor withdrawal"...I've been taking 75 mg a day for like 5 months now, and I went 4 days without my pills, and was having some tingling in my lips and left arm. It happened once or twice before, and if I put it to a calendar and memory, I bet I'd find I was a day or two off my pills. I finally got my husband to pick up my meds, took 2 immediately, and the tingling stopped!
Anyway, I just thought it was very interesting I found that I'm not alone with this oddness...I figured I needed to visit a chiropractor for an adjustment, or DH was right and it was a bizarre allergy symptom.
Thank goodness I wasn't on a higher dose! "Forgetting" my pills for a couple days was bad enough, I'm not relishing the thought of going off them anytime soon (oh no...my dr. promised no weight gain with these...dangit, no wonder I'm not losing any weight :(...well, I'm sure there's too much computer time involved that's more of a culprit, lol, but still...sigh).Glad I'm not completely off-base with my strange symptoms, but it still kind of sucks.
Thanks for being here!
Julie
> "Sensory disturbances (including electric shock sensations)"
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> Wow, I found an actual medical term to associate the Brain Shimmers with, although some do not directly refer to skin:
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> Parasthesia - a sensation of pricking, tingling, or creeping on the skin having no objective cause and usually associated with injury or irritation of a sensory nerve or nerve root
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> Hmmm. Usually associated with injury or irritation of a sensory nerve....
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> Stryker88 & Mollie, I hope my posts help you with what I was going through to prepare you for possibly the same.
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> GOOD LUCK.
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> Jim
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