Well this explains it
At the moment im in an organising frenzy, and apart of this is shifting through my medication cupboard and making sure i know what medication is for what.
I typed in my Anti deppressant medications and stubbled across stax of information in relation to my medication i was on.
As some of you might of know I was taking an anti depression medication Effexor for anxiety attacks.
Once on this medication, i started to experience side effects.
Depression, anxiety, extreme dizzt spells, vivid nighmares, problems in sleeping, night sweats,no sex drive, weight gain....
Once i missed taking my medication for 1 day i suffered massive dissy spells which made me incapable of blinking without falling over, vertigo, loss of coordination nausea... and this was all extreme. At first i didnt think this was the cause until I started to ween off them.
I found a petition that stated that the manufacturers didnt divuldge all the information of side effects in relation to their trials of this drug and found alot of affected people from this drug, bad side effects and problems with withdrawl and weening.
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?effexor
As i started to ween the withdrawl effects kicked in straight away. I started just before rainbow.
My weening process involved me opening capsules to minimise the weening process and took me a few months to get off them. on the last week, while still on 10 mg i decided to have a cold turkey weekend to get off them. HOLY MOLEY, it was terrible. thanks to rich for helping me through.
Anyway my brain is back in some sort of order, still suffering anxiety, but id rather manage it naturally after the hell i went through. Still piecing other bits and pieces back together.
Im glad it wasnt just me and my brain that caused the side effects but it makes me sad to read the stories that people have gone through. And that my doctor wasnt aware of the severity of reported side effects. which i will tell him of.
Anyway i thought id post, because it has made me angry at the manufacturers unwillingness to admit such severe side effects. and only after 8 years of it being on the market re releasing trial data that showed that trials were conducted with a co prescription of xanax.
F them for making my life almost unbearable and sad....
and heres to happy nikki being back on the scene :)
I typed in my Anti deppressant medications and stubbled across stax of information in relation to my medication i was on.
As some of you might of know I was taking an anti depression medication Effexor for anxiety attacks.
Once on this medication, i started to experience side effects.
Depression, anxiety, extreme dizzt spells, vivid nighmares, problems in sleeping, night sweats,no sex drive, weight gain....
Once i missed taking my medication for 1 day i suffered massive dissy spells which made me incapable of blinking without falling over, vertigo, loss of coordination nausea... and this was all extreme. At first i didnt think this was the cause until I started to ween off them.
I found a petition that stated that the manufacturers didnt divuldge all the information of side effects in relation to their trials of this drug and found alot of affected people from this drug, bad side effects and problems with withdrawl and weening.
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?effexor
As i started to ween the withdrawl effects kicked in straight away. I started just before rainbow.
My weening process involved me opening capsules to minimise the weening process and took me a few months to get off them. on the last week, while still on 10 mg i decided to have a cold turkey weekend to get off them. HOLY MOLEY, it was terrible. thanks to rich for helping me through.
Anyway my brain is back in some sort of order, still suffering anxiety, but id rather manage it naturally after the hell i went through. Still piecing other bits and pieces back together.
Im glad it wasnt just me and my brain that caused the side effects but it makes me sad to read the stories that people have gone through. And that my doctor wasnt aware of the severity of reported side effects. which i will tell him of.
Anyway i thought id post, because it has made me angry at the manufacturers unwillingness to admit such severe side effects. and only after 8 years of it being on the market re releasing trial data that showed that trials were conducted with a co prescription of xanax.
F them for making my life almost unbearable and sad....
and heres to happy nikki being back on the scene :)