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Originally Posted by Can't Stop Crying
I got them when I went off Effexor cold turkey....it literally felt like electricity was shooting through my brain.
Paige - have you had your blood pressure checked? The numbness and lightheadedness sound like what I felt like when I had extremely low blood pressure. Are you weaning off your meds with a doctor?
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Can't Stop Crying,
OH MY GOSH! I can't believe it. This is EXACTLY what happened to me when I was coming off Effexor. There is no way I could stop cold turkey, weaning was hard enough. I called them "brain shocks" and when I told my pdoc, he didn't know what I was talking about. The brain shocks were very disturbing to me, especially since my pdoc never heard of this. I thought it was maybe a precurssor to having a seizure, they really scared me, This is the first time I've ever heard of anyone else having this sensation.
THANK YOU!