Posted by chris777 on February 16, 2005, at 0:56:21
In reply to Re: Anyone else with fibromialgia? ? sabre, posted by dancingstar on January 23, 2005, at 23:59:17
> I am positive that over the three years that I took Effexor, it caused me to feel the pain of fibromyalgia and to have chronic fatigue. It became worse and more debilitating as time went on, and I watch this now happening to one of my closest friends.
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> It didn't start out that way. At first it gave me energy and made me feel better. After a while, I became very sick, in pain, and tired. I also caught really strange infections.
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> I quit, and now I just have the original back and hip pain that I started with and my energy level returned to normal. My neck is very sore and I definitely have some nerve damage from having taken Effexor. I always forget to add the tingling thing that I get whenever I feel stressed that doesn't want to go away.Both your, and Guy's post caught my eye.
I apparently had topomax trigger my fibro back in 2000, the doctor kept going up on the dosage, the higher the dose the more I hurt. until I came off, only my pain level stayed the same until recently, It was amplified again, from either methadone whithdrawal, or a reaction to duragesic patches.
I know you said your fibro went away, but have you ever heard of any other people having problems like ours that appear to be medication induced?
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