Posted by Cindy W on July 5, 2000, at 0:01:25
In reply to Re: Effexor-side effects, posted by Sunnely on July 4, 2000, at 23:15:54
> If you have missed a dose or two of Effexor, chances are you are experiencing withdrawal symptoms. Unfortunately, Effexor seems to provoke the most rapid and nasty withdrawal symptoms among the new generation of antidepressants. Dizziness, vertigo, insomnia, agitation, "shock-like" sensations, flu-like symptoms are not uncommon withdrawal symptoms of Effexor.
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> Prozac, with its serotonin effect, usually alleviates the withdrawal symptoms of Effexor. It is OK to combine the two drugs and then gradually taper down the dose of Effexor to comfortable level until it is completely stopped.
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> Increased sweating (and nightmares) have been reported with the use of SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, and others) and Effexor. The "trails" you sometimes see are most likely due to trazodone. Other visual disturbances reported with the use of trazodone are "seeing again" medically termed palinopsia, and "ghost shadows." These visual disturbances are believed to be dose-dependent, so cutting down the dose of trazodone may help alleviate this problem. FYI, with the addition of Prozac, your blood level of trazodone may rise due to Prozac's inhibiting effect on the liver enzymes that trazodone depend on. BTW, these visual phenomena have also been reported with the use of Serzone (nefazodone), which is structurally related to trazodone.Sunnely, i agree with what you wrote...sounds like a missed dose of Effexor to me! Also, the visual trails happened to me with serzone (in fact, i kind of miss them! they were kind of fun!) but have disappeared since i'm now only taking 50-75 mg/night of serzone (since i'm cutting the pills up, it's hard to tell exactly the dose, but no more visual trails).
poster:Cindy W
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