Venlafaxine symtoms
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I first got diagnosed with anxiety/depression in 2012 and used to take 50 increasing to 100mg sertraline but after many incidents and it not feeling beneficial I came of it and just been on propranolol mainly since. Last Friday also got diagnosed with emotional instability by a psychiatrist Started taking 75mg venlafaxine this morning and been in bed feeling sick and being sick on and of since 11am can't keep anything down was instantly sick after attempting to eat a bacon sandwich even the smell was bad. Haven't been able to drink much either and diarrhoea. also jaw lock hot and cold sweats and light headed. I think also a little serotonin syndrome also but not as bad as it was with the sertraline am not liking it so far but it's only day 1. I also take 40 mg of propranolol and 25mg or X2promethazine to help sleep. I was told it was fine by the psychiatrist. I hope this passes very soon I never had the vomiting symtoms of the sertraline just had other bad symtoms with that but I really hate feeling and being sick as it keeping me bed bound any one else get this? I read you can get nausea but not to the extend I'm worried to eat or drink. kind of feels like food poisoning
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betsy0603 Leemg1990
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You may adapt eventually to ven and the side effects will go away, but if they are so extreme as to be incapacitating, then I'd chalk it up to being an adverse reaction and not right for you.
Leemg1990 betsy0603
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betsy0603 Leemg1990
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Be careful about switching around meds at this time. Your nervous system is highly destabilized from the sert wd and scrambling to try to regain its footing, so adding new drugs into the mix could in fact go paradoxical and make you feel worse, may be what is happening with the ven. I know some people have bad start-up symptoms going on it anyway. When I started ven, I had no start up side effects that I was aware of.
Leemg1990 betsy0603
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betsy0603 Leemg1990
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It is no fun to consier going back on the med that was causing such troubles, but sometimes we have to do it to get stable and then taper very slowly off, hopefully staving off withdrawal, and then be free of them!
They poop out and then you end up where you did. P drugs are great for crisis situations to give you a leg up, but aren't a long term solution. So, therapy, CBT in particular, as well as meditation (scientifically proven to help with depression and anxiety), mindfulness, etc, are more lasting solutions. But now you are caught up in the instability from the drugs and sometimes during these periods it is difficult to even have these techniques help, because the symptoms are not from life situations and historical patterns but from brain chemistry gone awry. I get the problems you speak of, the memory issues, personality change, etc. You just want your self back. I have had all of this on ven, along with sexual side effects, so it certainly wasn't a magic bullet for me. I just kept taking them, though, thinking I had a depressive brain that required meds; just didn't think about the fact that I wasn't fixed on them. They make you not care to try, really.