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Side effects and withdrawal

Posted by John on April 29, 2000, at 20:57:09

In reply to Re: withdrawal, posted by maggie on April 29, 2000, at 1:20:48

I really appreciate this message board, and want to add my experience to the mix.

A few weeks ago I went to my doctor because I had a persistent tic in my eyelid that wouldn't go away. Through testing he ruled out any obvious physical problem, and concluded--no doubt correctly--that I had persistent anxiety and mild depression. He put me on effexor.

From the first dose (37.5 mg) I began having tremendous side effects, which included weakness and sleepiness, stiff and uncoordinated motor skills, muscle twitches, and a maddening inability to sleep due to "jerks" everytime I managed to drift off (which wasn't very often). The weakness and stiff movement passed in a couple days, but the twitches and jerks remained. At first it didn't dawn on me that I might be having side effects of the effexor, since the literature I was given mentioned only things like nausea and insomnia. I thought my symptoms were due to anxiety. But after searching the web I finally realized it was effexor, and I decided to get o


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