Posted by Chairman_MAO on June 9, 2004, at 13:05:58
I'm on day 8 of both desipramine 75mg/day and Effexor withdrawal from 75mg/day. I'm doing some temp work in data entry these days and feel mentally incapacitated. Even tasks sequences, such as pressing the tab key, following the cursor from one field to another, and then looking at the appropriate space on my hard copy to find the value I need to enter, are proving excrutiatingly difficult! I'm so spacey I feel like I'm in waking dream! Hell, simply writing this posting is proving more difficult than I anticipated, as it always feels as if all my sentence structures are suboptimal. That's not even the word I wanted to use--or it doesn't feel like it--but I have to put SOMETHING down for all of you to try to understand!
I quit the Effexor in favor of desipramine primarly because serotonergic drugs without dopaminergic augmentation--which my pdoc will notgive me--make my ADD much, much worse. Well, now I'm even foggier than ever! There are so many possible factors at work here:
1) desipramine causing cognitive dysfunction due to its anticholinergic effect (didn't notice this the last time I tried it)
2)Trileptal 900mg/day, which I had to start taking again to keep myself from randomly crying during the withdrawl
3) Effexor withdrawal
etc etc etc. I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced similar cognitive dysfunction upon withdrawal of a serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and, if so, how long did it last?
Thanks for your support.
poster:Chairman_MAO
thread:355135
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