Restarting venlafaxine after stopping for for 5 days
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dear anxious guys
i was on Effexor for almost 6 months , i sooke with my doctor to gradually decrease ut as i want to stop and we did that in a month. however, after 5 days i restarted taking it 75mg as i had my ocd and panic attacks again and on my 2nd day till now (8-10 days) im having a muscle palpitation feel in my neck and head to my eye ( its like a really bad tension headache ) as well as tingling tongue and sensation in head and nose + jaw tension
spoke to my doctor to switch to another and he told me to try Lustral but the plan would be as follows
37mg effexor in the morning for 8 days
25mg lustral in the night for 8 days then increase it to 50
in that day i skipped my effexor and symptomps were gone . today i started following the plan but after 3 hours taking the effexor i got the same feeling pain going from right traps to neck to ear to eye and head pressure
please has snyone experienced this and does restarting the med do this and is effexor that bad ???
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Tunners someone26695
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From what I've read it has a very short, if not the shortest half-life (time in which the drug is processed by and leaves the body) of the modern antidepressants. I would suggest your body/brain is withdrawing from it fast and this may be causing the unpleasant side effects. I've found Ven to be very potent in it's antidepressant effects.