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Posted by Sanjuro5 on April 12, 2004, at 12:47:41
Hi, I take 150mg of effexor in the morning and 60mg of geodon twice a day. A few days ago on Saturday I didn't take my medication in the morning and I started to feel sick physically. Then at around 5 in the evening I started to get a panic attack and felt like I wasn't in touch with my body. I started taking the medicine soon after but it is now monday and I don't feel much better. I have dilated pupils all of the time as well as sweaty palms, a feeling of being out of touch with my body, dizziness, confusion, and memory problems. I also am worried all the time that I may go crazy or lose control, I felt normal before I missed that dose and I have only been on the medicine for a short while. I was wondering if anyone knows if this will go away or why it happened. thanks.
Posted by noa on April 12, 2004, at 13:08:32
In reply to Horrible Withdrawal Accident, posted by Sanjuro5 on April 12, 2004, at 12:47:41
FWIW,
I did that once and realized that I hadn't taken the effexor but decided it was too late in the day to take it at that point, and decided to wait until the next morning. WHAT A MISTAKE! I felt really physically uncomfortable and mentally very out of sorts, although I can't say that I had the kind of out of body experience you are describing. But it was very uncomfortable.
But it did go away! I think it may have taken the whole next day to get back to semi-normal, and then it continued to get back to normal within a day after that.
But you should definitely CALL YOUR DOCTOR now to discuss this. We are each different and these meds do affect us all differently. I think you should call your doc and run it by him or her how you are feeling.
Good luck.
Posted by Sanjuro5 on April 12, 2004, at 13:25:32
In reply to Re: Horrible Withdrawal Accident » Sanjuro5, posted by noa on April 12, 2004, at 13:08:32
> FWIW,
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> I did that once and realized that I hadn't taken the effexor but decided it was too late in the day to take it at that point, and decided to wait until the next morning. WHAT A MISTAKE! I felt really physically uncomfortable and mentally very out of sorts, although I can't say that I had the kind of out of body experience you are describing. But it was very uncomfortable.
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> But it did go away! I think it may have taken the whole next day to get back to semi-normal, and then it continued to get back to normal within a day after that.
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> But you should definitely CALL YOUR DOCTOR now to discuss this. We are each different and these meds do affect us all differently. I think you should call your doc and run it by him or her how you are feeling.
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> Good luck.Thank you for responding. I think the detached feeling is still with me because of a horrible panic attack that I had a few days ago, it can happen if your anxiety is very high. I actually don't have a new psychiatrist until wednesday because I was recently at a hospital as an in-patient and I was only assigned a psychiatrist while I was there temporarily. So I really don't have any doctor of psychiatry to talk to at the moment. Panic attacks are so horrible though.
Posted by ku4ns on April 12, 2004, at 13:44:24
In reply to Horrible Withdrawal Accident, posted by Sanjuro5 on April 12, 2004, at 12:47:41
When I was taking 150mg of effexor each day and forgot to take a morning dose I would know by lunch that I better take one. At 150mg my body told me when I forgot to take the dose by giving me a headache, dizziness, inability to concentrate but soon after taking a dose the problems would go away. In your case I would take the medication and go see the prescribing physician. Hope this helps. John
Posted by terrics on April 13, 2004, at 9:35:33
In reply to Re: Horrible Withdrawal Accident, posted by ku4ns on April 12, 2004, at 13:44:24
Can you call the pdoc you were seeing inpatient? terrics
Posted by terrics on April 13, 2004, at 9:36:17
In reply to Re: Horrible Withdrawal Accident » ku4ns, posted by terrics on April 13, 2004, at 9:35:33
Above message for Sanjuro. terrics
Posted by Sebastian on April 15, 2004, at 12:22:19
In reply to Re: Horrible Withdrawal Accident » Sanjuro5, posted by noa on April 12, 2004, at 13:08:32
What I would do if you feel safe and comfortable about it. Take an extra small pice of the missed dose as soon as you notice. Even if you are at the next dose. Just enough to get the levels of medicine in your system back up to normal quicker. EX: Normaly I take 10 mg zyprexa every night. I miss the dose. Start to notice it in the evening when I feel funny. Half life of zyprexa is 1 day. So I take a quarter of a pill at 5 pm, then 10 mg at bed time like normal.
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