Hello everyone, this is my first post.

I'm here because I have recently discovered how hard coming off venlafaxine is and I would like to exchange stories with other people that are going through similar issues (or that didn't have any!).

I've been on 150mg of venlafaxine for a few months, and recently started noticing that if I missed a dose I would get the following symptoms:
-extremely vivid dreams/nightmares
-cold night sweats
-waking up with all my muscles tensed up
-strange electrical sensation in my brain
-brain zaps
-weird pressure sensation in my ears
-faintness
-dizzyness
-general feeling of weakness
-feeling like my brain is being shaken inside my head like an egg yolk inside the egg shell

Through trial and error I've figured out that these symptoms start to appear after about 30 hours since my last dose, and get increasingly worse. I have never made it more than 2 days without taking a dose.

I want to go off the medication because I no longer feel depressed and I don't think it ever did much to begin with, and also I'm a student and I could really use the money for something else, like paying rent. But if the effects are so horrible after only 2 days, I shudder to think what might be in store for me....