about three months ago I was put on effoxer 75 mg. when I first started it. I felt weird. like everything was brighter and louder. I had to stop driving with my car windows down because the sound of the traffic would scare me. I told a friend and she asked me shouldn't that be a good thing. but it was annoying and quit honestly kinda scary. its still bothersome some daysI was a little leary of upping it to 150 last week but she said since I wasn't having any negative side effects it would be good to try. my therapist said today i seemed more relaxed on open but I feel like a rat on crack inside. almost like a manic state. I've been misplacing words like I'll be talking and completely forget what a word is. ill be able to describe it , act the word out but for the life of me cant place the word. that and stareing off in to space for a min quit frankly make me think im going crazy. the dr said it shouldn't effect my heart or bp but in doing research tonight I'm reading that it can interact with half the meds I take (that she knew I was taking) has anyone else experienced anything like this
I have not had that same experience but I’ve had other side effects with those type of meds. You’ve been on it for three months which is long enough for you to start feeling better. I don’t like any med that mess with my thinking.
Let your doctor know what you said on here unless you did that already. sometimes the drug interactions are mild or moderate. Some are severe. So it just depends on what yours is. Have you ever tried any other medications? Sometimes it takes trying different ones until you get the right one. but if you really don’t feel right on this medication let your doctor know that and your counselor. sometimes in the beginning of taking a new medication you can get symptoms that eventually go away but like I said you’ve been on this long enough for those to be gone. I hope this gets figured out for you. Take care
have I tried other meds? good lord yes! I have been on so many cocktails of meds for insomnia, nightmares/night terrors, major depression, several anxiety and mild ocd (not including pain, muscle spasms, neuropathy, uncontrollable bp, and a heart something or another they can’t figure out “just yet” - gotta love a persistent cardiologist lol) I’ve been on Prozac (made me go totally numb) trintellix (dissociative episode) burspar (hallucinations) Lexapro (massive rapid weight gain that i still can’t get rid of) trazadone (took two times and couldn’t pick my head up off a pillow for almost a week with out throwing up) just to name a few. my chart reads like a psyc nightmare. the current dr said as long as its not adverse effects let’s ride it out a little bit. I was just wondering if this was coming from the effoxer or if I needed to go see yet another dr lol