Posted by emergingbutterfly on June 24, 2005, at 17:02:25 [reposted on June 25, 2005, at 10:48:11 | original URL]
I have been on Effexor XR for almost 2 years. I've been titrating down for a month, per my doctor's recommendation. Tuesday night was my last dosage. By Wed. afternoon I was hit with a wave of dizziness that almost sent me home from work. Yesterday wasn't too much better. Today was worse yet. My headache was so bad that I had to leave work. Driving home was difficult. I couldn't move my eyeballs to look in the rearview mirror. Along with the extreme dizziness and headache I've also heard beeping in my ears and it feels like my brain is hit with electricity when this happens. I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with eye movement. I'm experiencing nausea, crying a lot. I've had the runs since I started titrating down. I must be irritable because I wrote up one of my employees for the first time and another one asked if she'd done something to "tick me off". My doctor prescribed Butalbital/APAP for the headaches. I took one today when I got home. I think I'm going to like barbituates (just kidding). I went on the Effexor because of depression. My doctor told me there were "no side effects". I would hate to see what her definition of "side effects" might be.
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