I'm so bored so I thought I would ask you all about something that's going on with me over the last couple of days.
Just wondering if anyone here is currently or has ever come off of the drug Effexor, and what your experiences were with it.
I had been on Effexor since January sometime, and gradually developed a tremor in my hand, sensations of water trickling down my legs, then into the hands, then my eyes would bounce around when I had them closed (which was fun) unless you wanted to actually sleep! After seeing a neurologist, he suggested coming off of the Effexor before having further tests incase they were just side effects of the drug.
So about 2 weeks ago my GP told me how to ween off of the drug, dropping doses over X amount of days ... yadda yadda
She said I could go as slow or as fast as I felt comfortable doing and said that the withdrawl was like a painful violent flu, so if I were to experience that, I should go back to the last dose I was on and take it a little longer. Needless to say I went off fast (I never wanted to be on them in the first place and I don't like being on meds of any sort because of what they turned my mother into - that's another story!) and finished my last dose after only 8 days. I have been off the Effexor for 5 days now - no flu like symptoms have come up. But a couple of days ago I started to get nasty/vivid dreams, I'm getting only 3-4 hours sleep because I feel wired all the time, I'm easily aggitated and irritable (as you may have noticed last week lol). I also have strange jolts in my body and head ... like electricity but not painful or anything. *I sleep with ear plugs in thanks to my loving partner lol* and when I get one of these jolts I literally hear a zap in my head like one of those bug zapper things! It's not the flu by any means .. but definately new to me since coming off of the drug. Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing .. could it be withdrawl? If it is I'll just ride it out because it's better than not being able to write or hold a fork because of the tremors! If this is withdrawl I'm a little annoyed that both my GP and P weren't a little more informative about what to expect!
I see my GP in a week to talk about how my weening is going (I think she expected me to still be in the process when I see her), so if this is still going on I'll talk to her about it then .. but for the sake of some conversation I thought I would ask you about it in the meantime
What are cyber friends for ....Thanks,
Holly