re: #639 Jadespring

If it’s not to personal what side effects did you get?

Effexor (an SSRI) worked for a while, but then had a kind of “deadening” effect on me. I did something dumb and quit it cold turkey, which resulted in nasty, nasty withdrawal symptoms (the most vivid being “brain shivers” - hard to explain what this is like, but you kind of hear a sound like rushing water, get extremely dizzy, and your brain feels as if it’s pulsating inside your head. I got them several times an hour, then several times a day, then a few times per week, until they finally dwindled down to nothing).

I also tried Lamictal, and though it worked better than Effexor, it started to cause hair loss (lucky for me I had really thick hair to start out with, otherwise I could have wound up with bald spots. After I quit - tapering off this time, instead of cold turkey - the hair loss stopped, and it all grew back).

Which med were you considering?