Posted by sammi on October 17, 2004, at 18:18:17
This is my first time on this site, so my story is a bit long. I hope someone can relate and help me.
I have been on effexor xr for a little over 2 years now. I started on 75mg then I got up to 375mg over time. I also started lamictal at the same time as the effexor xr, that dose has went up alot too, from 50mg to 400mg in the past 2 years.
I have resently changed my psychiatrist because my last one just kept increasing my meds everytime there was a problem. My new doc said that the doses that I was on was just to high so he has been slowly decreasing my meds from 75mg of effexor and 100mg of lamictal each month. Now I am on 225mg of effexor and 200mg of lamictal a day. I have been fine with the change up until this past week. I have had flu like symptoms, really bad back aches, my muscles hurt, I am constantly bitting down on my jaw, my stomach hurts, and I always feel nervous. I feel like I am dying.
The thing is about six months ago my old doc tried to take me off of the effexor by decreasing it 75mg a week but, by the second week I was real bad off, my depression started to come back, I was always dizzy and confused, I even had loss of memory. So she just put me back on the original dose plus added 75mg taking me up to 375mg a day.(see why I changed docs)
This time my symptoms are not the same as before.
What is wrong with me? Can anyone help?
poster:sammi
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