I was on effexorEffexor
Effexor xr for a little while. As with all SSRI's they work differently in every person. Some people can use them and not have a problem, other people have side effects. I had the same problem as you, always worrying about the worst about the medicationsAllergic reactions to medication
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As far as you saying "What have you gotten into," There honestly shouldn't be a problem I had weird dreams and bad dreams for the firstFirst progesterone mc10
First progesterone mc5
First-progesterone vgs 200
First-progesterone vgs 400 2-4 weeks but that went away. It could be anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety because you're worrying about the whole side effect situation.



Reason I stopped taking EffexorEffexor
Effexor xr was it wasn't well known as a GAD/PanicPanic disorder
Panic disorder with agoraphobia Attack reliever. My depressionAdolescent depression
Bipolar disorder
Depression
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Depression and heart disease
Depression and insomnia
Depression and men
Depression and the menstrual cycle
Depression in children is based on my anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety. I'm currently on lexapro 10mg.. it works well just a weightDifferent types of weight gain
Exercise and weight loss
Height and weight chart
Height/weight chart
Losing weight
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Weight loss and age gain problem is there.



When you go online and look up all this stuff about medicationsAllergic reactions to medication
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Amyloidosis on the fingers
Clubbed fingers
Cryoglobulinemia - of the fingers
Finger pain
Herpes zoster (shingles) on the hand and fingers
Janeway lesion on the finger
Kawasaki's disease, peeling of the fingertips
Nail abnormalities
Replantation of digits
Ringworm, tinea manuum on the finger and think its terrible, but it isn't.



Good Luck ***@**** if you have any other questions about medicine. Not a doctor just trying to make a difference.

I am on effexorEffexor
Effexor xr and have not had any side effects.  I am taking 75. A small dosage but I was on PaxilPaxil
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I do agree drugsChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension effect people differently.  I have not had any side effects on effexorEffexor
Effexor xr. My headHead and face reconstruction
Head injury
Head lice
Indications of head injury
Radial head injury is actually the clearest it has been in years.  That is not to say that there are not any.  I do know that everytime you change your dosage there can be side effects.  They usually go away within a few weeks.



I have PTSD and that is why I am on effexorEffexor
Effexor xr and I will be starting light therapy as well.

I too have recently been put on Efexor, and looked up on the net about the drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension and it's side effects.  I was alarmed, and made an appointment to see my GP and discussed me concerns with him. He explained that I was very ill, I needed to get on medicationAllergic reactions to medication
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Drug-induced hypertension can give me far outweighs the risk of side effects and withdrawalDelirium tremens side effects.  He added that I was not in a fit state to put in a full discussion at the time of visiting him.  I have heard some horror stories, but I have also heard excellent comments on how the drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension can help, I cannot look as far ahead as coming off of the medicationAllergic reactions to medication
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Inhaler medication administration yet, so I will cross the withdrawalDelirium tremens bridge when I get to it.  By the way, any side effects I did have at the start of taking Efexor have now passed.

I really don't know what to do at this point?  I began taking EffexorEffexor
Effexor xr XR more than a year ago.  The dose stayed at 375 mg for many months and then since it was not working well the doc decided to switch me over to wellbutrin and had me taper off the effexorEffexor
Effexor xr.  I got down to 37.5 mg and I just cant seem to get off the stuff!  I went to taking it every other day (with withdrawalDelirium tremens symptoms) and then finally stopped altogether about 10 days ago per Doc's advice.  I feel totally crappy.  I am now taking 450 mg of wellbutrin, but still feel very depressed, sickSick sinus syndrome to my stomachAbdominal pain
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Stomach, sweatingSweating
Sweating - absent, feverish, some weird kind of electric headHead and face reconstruction
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Radial head injury to fingertip thing when I move my eyesAmblyopia
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Eye!  This same thing happened last year when I tried to get off the drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension anymore no matter what happens but am wondering if I will outlive the withdrawalDelirium tremens symptoms.  Any one know how long they might last?  Or how to make them stop?  My quality of life is so low now that I feel I must do something to improve the situation so I will have a reason to get out of bed in the morning.  Any advice appreciated.  thank you.

My dear people------what in the world has happened here.  No one seems to care or even believe that the effexorEffexor
Effexor xr withdrawalsDelirium tremens are real.  Believe me------they are. After being on this medicine for about a year, I started feeling out of sorts.  I tryed to get off (I was only taking the 37.5), but I had no luck. I felt like one of those people on the tv trying to get off of herion. It was really bad. So I went backBack pain - low
Back strain treatment on it. It was never good. I decided that I had to get off of it once and for all. My doctor told me that it was not the meds that was making me feel this way and that I needed more of it, not less. But I would not lisen, I wanted off. So, I tryed to taper down,but I did not know that you could open the pills up and divide the grains. So I went every other night for a while and then a couple times a week and then none at all. This was over a course of about 3 weeks. That was not the right way of doing it, but I did not know any better. It took me about 3 months to get my headHead and face reconstruction
Head injury
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Radial head injury cleared up and my body is still having problems that I am not sure is related to the effexorEffexor
Effexor xr or not. I had all the problems that everone seems to be talking about. The brainAmebic brain abscess
Brain abscess
Brain herniation
Brain surgery
Brain tumor - adults
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Primary brain tumor zaps, the sweatsSweat electrolytes
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Sweating - absent, the happy drunk, the headHead and face reconstruction
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Radial head injury aches, the panick attacks, the mood swings, the angerIslets of langerhans
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Pancreatic islet cell tumor, the lonliness, the noise in my earsEar barotrauma
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Ear emergencies
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Ear tube insertion - series, the out of body feelings, many more.....plus the backBack pain - low
Back strain treatment aches, the all over muscleDeep anterior muscles
Eye muscles
Lower leg muscles
Muscle aches
Muscle atrophy
Muscle biopsy
Muscle cramps
Muscle function loss
Muscle twitching
Rotator cuff muscles
Superficial anterior muscles aches. I thought that I was never going to be able to walk right again. I still have a little trouble with that. I still have alot of trouble with my elbowElbow pain, I can hardly pick up a gal. of milkBreast milk
Breast milk jaundice
Lactose intolerance
Nipple discharge - abnormal let alone my grand son that is one year old. I still clench my teethBroken or knocked out tooth
Dental care - adult
Dental x-rays
Development of baby teeth
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Plaque and tartar on teeth
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Toothaches sometimes. You must know that the only reason that I took this med. was for a few simple panick attacks( they had got to the point that they were about 10 or so a day), but I was better off not taking the effexorEffexor
Effexor xr. I do hope that with time my body will be backBack pain - low
Back strain treatment to normal. Thank God my mind is-----except for the headHead and face reconstruction
Head injury
Head lice
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Radial head injury aches/pressurePressure ulcer. It could be worse.  But, I have never had anything like this happen to me in my life. It also seems to have made a diffence in how easy it is for me to catch a cold or get sinusChronic sinusitis
Cranial ct scan
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Sinus x-ray
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Sinusitis - chronic infectionsAcute cytomegalovirus (cmv) infection
Acute hiv infection
Asymptomatic hiv infection
Athlete's foot
Breast infection
Cellulitis
Chlamydia infections in women
Common cold
Corneal ulcers and infections
Cystitis - acute bacterial
Ear infection - acute. Oh well----God will make it "all" right. To all of you out there who has went through this thing.....I pray for you. And it is good to know that you do come out of it, at least the mind part. You will get backBack pain - low
Back strain treatment to normal. As for the body part------well I just hope it continues to get better and not get any worse. God bless us all.

sandy

New to this discussion, new to EffexorEffexor
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Why my MD put me on EffexorEffexor
Effexor xr, I don't know. She's on EffexorEffexor
Effexor xr and Provigil herself, so I guess she wanted me to have the same energizing effects she enjoys. I thought, "She's 70 years old and going strong. I'll try it." For me, it has been awful



I have been taking EffexorEffexor
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My husband (also my pharmacist) says this is one of his best selling antidepressants! He feels awful that my already agingAbdominal mri
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Drug-induced hypertension, but who knew?



Bruising: check.

Weird dreams: check.

Pulsating electric current sensation in brainAmebic brain abscess
Brain abscess
Brain herniation
Brain surgery
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Brain tumor - children
Metastatic brain tumor
Posterior fossa tumor
Primary brain tumor: check.

Vibrating auditory abnormality: check

Inability to focus and find words: check

CryingColic and crying
Crying in infancy: check (add to that tearsTears again gel drops
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Tears plus rolling down faceFace pain, then realizing that you're cryingColic and crying
Crying in infancy when you're not unhappy at all...even waking up cryingColic and crying
Crying in infancy)



also...massive headaches...not a symptom as oft mentioned in your postings as I thought



Surely Merlin-shrouded researchers chanting around a cauldron formulated this drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension. Demonic deliverance somehow seems as plausible as withdrawalDelirium tremens!! Next week has to be better.



If I have to take another ad, I vote for Wellbutrin. Metabolized in a day...in and out. Never, ever, ever, ever will I take this drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension again.



Good luck to all of you. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

The withdrawls do go away. It just takes time, patience, and strength, but for me it all went away after a couple months.  Hang in there guys,  The road to freedom from effexorEffexor
Effexor xr is undoubtably a frightening.  Gog bless you all.

I have been on and off of anti-depressants for about 10 years now. I took Wellbutrin and BuSpar for a while, then my current physician put me on Lexapro- when that didn't work, he put me on EffexorEffexor
Effexor xr XR.  I took 37.5 for a while- didn't help- so they gradually upped my dose to 150 mg per day.  I missed a dose yesterday morning and now feel like ****- I am really dizzy - I've never had vertigoBenign positional vertigo
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Vertigo-associated disorders, but I guess that's what it is.  I had horrible night sweatsSweat electrolytes
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Sweating - absent and really strange dreams last night.  I feel sickSick sinus syndrome to my stomachAbdominal pain
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Gastric cancer
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Gastric ulcer
Ileus - x-ray of distended bowel and stomach
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Stomach today and have had diarrheaBacterial gastroenteritis
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Diarrhea
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E. coli enteritis
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Traveler’s diarrhea diet more than once today. I can't focus and feel like just curling up in ball and dying.  The thing is, I took my dose this morning (with food) at 9:30.  It is now 11:30 and I don't feel any better.  I am really scared after reading other people's side effects and withdrawalDelirium tremens symptoms.  I feel really bad but am afraid to call the doctor because it was my fault for missing a dose.  I was feeling OK on the medicationAllergic reactions to medication
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Safe sex and some trouble sleepingSleeping difficulty, it was better than feeling depressed all the time.  But now, I just feel SICKSick sinus syndrome!!!  Unable to walk without getting dizzy.  Should I go to my doctor?  What should I do????