I've been suffering with depression and anxiety for the last 4 months. I started Effexor about 3 weeks ago but a very low dose. My symptoms started out with tingling mostly on my left side (arm, lower leg, face and hand). It totally freaked me out and I was sure I had MS.

My doc has said that she believe the symptoms are from anxiety and did some screening type tests on me. I've been feeling a LITTLE better in terms of the depresssion and anxiety over the last week but my symptoms are still coming back periodically. In the last two days, they haven't left! What is wrong with me? Why, if I'm feeling better, haven't the symptoms gone away? Of course, I'm freaking out again and am imagining sometime horribly wrong with me.