Suddenly feeling light headed

Mental health
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Hi Fiona. I've been on Venlafaxine for about three months.

I used to be on 40mg of Paroxetine for a number of years then it began to

stop working. It's now considered one of the older antidepressants,

but while it worked it was great. The doctors don't like to increase the

dosage as it can only be increased by a small amount.

After much trial and error, Venlafaxine was decided on. I'm only on

on 112mg daily. 75mg in the morning and 37·5mg at night. ( to help me sleep)

It's supposed to help with depression and anxiety but so far it hasn't

done anything for the anxiety. My doctor wants to slowly increase the dose

over a period of time.

Everyone is different and there's so many variations in symptoms

of anxiety. Some of us can experience the same type of symptoms.

They're all horrible whatever they are. Our minds start overthinking

which is not good for us. Hugs. xx

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Awww Chriselora, you have us, darling, when you're in a bad way.

We're always here for anyone - except I seem to be posting messages to the wrong people at the moment, which is worrying.

   

But I've been awake all night (I work night shifts) so as I couldn't sleep I hauled out the laptop.

Time for bed, said Zebedee.    

love Tess xxx

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Fiona, as a nurse I urge you to put aside your fears and get on to 20mg citalopram.

And it's normal to wake up feeling worse when you're depressed.

Not that that is much comfort, I know, but little steps, Fiona. Little steps.

Keep telling us how you are and I'll try to answer the right people before the men in white coats come for me. It's only a matter of time.

x Tess

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Thank you Tess , do you think I will be ok on the 20 as I'm scared of side affects or not feeling in control , I'm anxious about these things happening as it took me weeks to even take the 10 xx

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Be a bit careful with venlafaxine.

I would go back to your doctor and ask him/her for a bog-standard SSRI.

Just sayin'.

love Tess xxx

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Thank you so much Tess I appreciate everything you say & for replying to me xx

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It's an awful feeling to have I hope you get something to help you , how does your anxiety affect your daily life ? Mine stops me wanting to go out but I've been a lot braver since even taking the 10 mg of citaloprin but still unable to travel out my home town due to getting so anxious being away from home I don't like to walk anywhere incase I get dizzy or lighthearted either & when I get a scare like yesterday it sets me back so much xx

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As a nurse I can tell you that you'll feel better.

Truly. Go for it, Fiona, and then see what happens.

love Tess xxxxxxxxx

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i hate it when the posts get mixed up.

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Hi Fiona. Just reading your reply to Chriselora and honestly Fiona, I could have written that myself, !!!! It is identical to the way I am feeling. I too am on 10 mg Cit anf because of my age ( I am the wrong side of 60 ) I am scared to up my dose. But I don't know how much longer I can put up with feeling like this.  Chuffed cos I'm having a "good" day then out of the the blue I feel as if I am about to keel over !!! It is so debilitating, I just want to feel just a bit more normal.  Luv Lily xx

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I'm so knew to this I get mixed up anyway xx

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Thank you Tess. I appreciate your support very much. Not being able

to sleep is horrible. I hope you manage to get some sleep now.

My husband has an inherited medical condition called

Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiactesia. or HHT. I don't know if you've

heard of it.

Not many people, even in the medical profession, have heard of it. I keep an information sheet of the condition to

give the paramedics to read if they haven't come across it before.

Very basically he has nosebleeds. Some of them so bad

he has to be taken to hospital by ambulance. He's had two bad bleeds

this year. It's a scary thing to see.

That certainly doesn't help my anxiety.

It's life and I just have to do the best I can, just as we all have to.

Thank you again for your support Tess. Hugs. xxxx

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Aww Lily your so not alone but hopefully we will get better in time , think we both need to try to be brace together & up our dose it's just so scary I think I'm scared of everything at times , I'm feeling kind of tingling all over today it's only way I can explain it , but I think it's my anxiety from yesterday or I hope anyway oh to feel normal would be wonderful, I hope you have a better day today & keep in touch love n hugs xx

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I've got the prescription here Tess just so scared I really want to take it I do just need to build myself up again to be brace today is a off day feeling very stressed just want it to go away but I will soldier on just another off day xxx

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Thank you Tess. I appreciate your advice..I will talk to my doctor at my next appointment which

is next week.

Love and hugs. xxx