Posted by T_R_D on April 27, 2004, at 16:28:23
In reply to Re: EFFEXOR XR WTHDRAWL, posted by Buckeye Fan on April 27, 2004, at 11:12:18
Sure! Everyone is different but I can tell you what I've experienced on the drug. Granted I was at 375mg with an augmentation drug added so that's pretty heavy. I believe 375mg is the max. therapeutic dosage in an outpatient setting. I'm a small-ish female if that also has anything to do with it. Maybe not but I suspect I was a pretty fast metabolizer because if I missed a dose I would experience some pretty awful stuff. This would be exacerbated with alcohol intake as well.
But while I adhered to my regular dosing schedule the worst was probably lack of sex drive and anorgasmia. Granted the lack of drive could have been attributed to my underlying depression at the time. I suspect that is the case. What else? Ah yes, myoclonus--my legs mostly. They would jump or twitch for a second and that was it. In general since I've been on meds, any meds, I sometimes have minor aphasic problems where I forget what a person or thing is called, call things by the wrong name, I stutter and I also have problems writing: I reverse letters and numbers all the time. It's frustrating but what am I going to do, right? Effexor makes me yawn a lot too!
When the bad missed dose/alcoholic nights would occur I would have extremely vivid nightmares, night sweats, violent full body spasms, sleep paralysis, spontaneous orgams and seizures. The clue to the latter was my loss of bladder control while sleeping.
Now extreme warning to everyone: I am a freak and have been known to suffer the rarest of the rare side effects while on meds (see spontaneous orgasm.) The joke is that that's a bonus not a problem but sexual arousal and orgasm combined with gore and horror was too much for my little psyche to bear. I would be drained and "hungover" the next day...perhaps similar to what seizure disordered people feel like after nocturnal seizures. For all I know, some of that kicking and flailing could have been seizure related too. We'll probably never know as the only things noted have been simple partial seizures when I am unmedicated. Anticonvulsants take care of those now.
So, how's that for an answer!
Karen
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