xxhwaters
19-06-12, 04:35
My name is Hailey and I have been on anti-depressants, sleeping pills, anti-psychotics ... you name it since I was around 14 years old.
I am now 22 and my depression and anxiety has faded from how it used to be when I was younger.
My doctor and psychiatrist thought it was time to try life without all the medications and I was and still am, all for that idea.
I have just been weaned off of Effexor slowly (took about 4-5 months)
and the last 3 days I have been medication free (yay!)
I started feeling these "brain zaps" more frequently these last few days. I had them before if I missed a dose of Effexor, but being weaned off that slowly I never noticed any side effects. I just starting noticing this all happening after I stopped taking it completely.
It's not a fun feeling, and it has been making me feel more and more dizzy as the days go on.
If this wasn't enough, I was just diagnosed with simple partial seizures a few weeks back, and my doctor thinks that I was mis-diagnosed when I was younger and never even needed these anti-depressants in the first place. (But the SPS are another story !)
I am just wondering if these effects I am feeling are from the effexor withdraw.. or could be from this mild form of epilepsy?
or both!?
I'm so frustrated I cannot even begin to explain how I am feeling with all of this.. I thought I was better... so why am I not feeling that way!
I am now 22 and my depression and anxiety has faded from how it used to be when I was younger.
My doctor and psychiatrist thought it was time to try life without all the medications and I was and still am, all for that idea.
I have just been weaned off of Effexor slowly (took about 4-5 months)
and the last 3 days I have been medication free (yay!)
I started feeling these "brain zaps" more frequently these last few days. I had them before if I missed a dose of Effexor, but being weaned off that slowly I never noticed any side effects. I just starting noticing this all happening after I stopped taking it completely.
It's not a fun feeling, and it has been making me feel more and more dizzy as the days go on.
If this wasn't enough, I was just diagnosed with simple partial seizures a few weeks back, and my doctor thinks that I was mis-diagnosed when I was younger and never even needed these anti-depressants in the first place. (But the SPS are another story !)
I am just wondering if these effects I am feeling are from the effexor withdraw.. or could be from this mild form of epilepsy?
or both!?
I'm so frustrated I cannot even begin to explain how I am feeling with all of this.. I thought I was better... so why am I not feeling that way!