33 day on effexor question for u guys that take it and if this common or nit
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Hi everyone. I hope ur all having good days.
I need some advice and have question for those of u taking Effexor xr 75mg . . I had rough start stomach problem insomnia for 3 weeks that finally stop. Im on 33rd day of taking this . I feel more depressed . Fuzzy and tingling in my head down to my eyes I get like body jolts im not to happy about these feeling I end up dropping thing in my hands Also I feel a bit sucidal and crazy feeling which is something I never ever. Felt I just always been depressed and devople a minor case of agoraphobia is why I was perscribe this. Also as of recently I have a had very hard to making a bowl movement so I added fiber to my diet as recommended . So I'm wondering if anyone can shine a light on some of these symptoms and I'm pretty sure I'm going call my therapist to stop this medication .
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Bigjoe
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liz05654 Bigjoe
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Do not take this medication. Ever.
i am probably going against all advice you may receive on here, but I can categorically say it has ruined my life. I was on it for 6-7 years. It did me good, initially. It took away the depair. It stopped me being suicidal. Maybe? Or maybe that was me? But coming off it has been hell.
I tried the tapering, I tried that more than once, but I eventually went cold turkey last August. 6 months ago. I thought " sod it, cold turkey can't kill me. Can it?"
i put 2 weeks aside, off work and prepared myself for hell. And it was. Hell, I mean.
but now it's 6 months later and I'm still bad. Mostly.
I am clearer headed. I can think. I'm not a zombie anymore. And I "feel". I feel emotion. I can cry, I can laugh, I can enjoy stuff, but I'm angry, I'm crying,I'm sad, I'm emotional but at least I feel. Something.
my life saver is Zolpidem. I take a sleeping tablet every single night. Without it I can't skeep. And that's the killer for me. If I don't sleep I die. End of.
But, if I ever take a nap, during the day at the weekend, without the Zolpidem, I get "the zaps". The leftovers from the venlafaxine. I get into a waking/ sleeping nightmare. I can't move.. I'm frozen. I have horrible dreams that feel real but I can't move and can't wake myself up from them, even though I know I'm asleep. I convulse In my sleep, my brain zaps, frizzes, and makes me roll my eyes, it's awful. And I know it's the venlafaxine that's done it.
When I was on venlafaxine I was on it for 6 years. At mostly 225mg per day, sometimes 300mg. I couldn't go the toilet for 2 weeks, all the time. I was constipated constantly, and that's enough to make you Ill. I took laxatives.
since I stopped venlafaxine I poo every day 😂
Sorry to rant. Please don't take it, ever.
If you can talk your problems, just do it instead.
x
Bigjoe liz05654
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Liz thank ur input. It excatlly what I was looking for. I'm quitng it i threw the pills away I have never ever wanted to hurt myself until today. I have two son a wife one son is 7 and one 11 they don't need to see there dad like this I'll take the withdrawal symptoms just so I can feel again. Sad thing is everything your feeling is what I'm starting to feel. I'm glad ur doing better . I hope I will get better I'm only 30yrs and I have not enjoyed one day of turning 30 since I turned it in June 2016. I feel like I'm missing my kids life and stuff because all the ssri and stuff I been on the past year they have paralyzed me emotilnaly and some physically.