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Tue, 06/23/2009 - 08:17
No sleep last night
After having a bad reaction to Effexor at around 2:45 yesterday afternoon, I spent 4 hours with my daughter laughing/worrying about how wired I was. I was absolutely manic. I finally started yawning around 7pm, so I thought it was over, then a half hour later I'm wired again. Tried to lay down several times, only tossed and turned. 
I've never had such a reaction to any drug before.... 
Now I get to try another new drug tonight, hope it doesn't do the same thing, It'll be just like old times when I went days with no to only a few hours sleep a night. 
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~kat (my posts are from my own experiences only, I'm NOT a Doctor!)
"Whyme" previously known (or unknown) as "Jusserfinn"
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Hi all, I'm Cindy 53, Simi Valley, Homeless due to SSI and their inability to understand chronic pain fibromyalgia and all the other crap we all deal with every second. Sometimes I feel like I just want to lie down and let go. But alas life, kids and hope keep me alive. Prey.. and please send me a dentist and a home for my rotti and my sig other....
Love ya all sufferers... Cindy Jean
cinders56, here is my hand reaching out with hope and success in getting your basic needs met!!
you can have my shoulder to put your head on and rest for a few moments.. 
if only, huh? please be guided by your faith and know you have a family here at SH.. 
all the best, Jenny 
Double laminectomy L4-L5, bulging discs, DDD, Bone spurs, nerve damage in left leg and hip, DJD, and that to familiar visitor,arthritis
I never took Effexor but I know of someone who did, and she had the same reaction. In some people it causes them to go "manic" and they feel super energetic. It's hard to say if the Effexor is reacting with your other meds, but it's best to call a pharmacist since they have the expertise to answer that sort of question. Take care and I hope you catch some ZZZZzzzz...
Past history: L4-5 central disc herniation, left lateral HNP L5-S1, L4-5 recurrent post op herniation, L4-5 Grade II retrolisthesis,
Current history: Post laminectomy syndrome, scar tissue, permanent nerve damage, severe DDD, facet arthropathy, DJD, OA, chronic degenerative endplate changes
Back Surgeries: Microdiscectomy/ laminectomy,
2 level TLIF/Laminectomy w/ instrumentation
Meds: Methadone 30mg, Oxycodone 15mg, Dilaudid, Cymbalta, Zanaflex, motrin.
Spineys Rule!
did i read you right?your homeless?? OMG you poor things .i carnt imagine anything worse than being in the kind of pain that i am in and not having the home comforts that i have ...i could not cope .{i was home less when i was 17 ..that was tough but i was a young fit man than .. i was homeless due to my parents divorce and alcohols in the family not me i dont drink..} i am so sorry for you i dont know what to say only no one should be homeless especially when they are ill ..
STRAKER
first operation {1996} laminectomy L4/L5 .second operation [2007] bilateral discectomy S1 and redo or L4/L5 laminectomy to relive scar tissue.[2009] facet joint hypertrophy at L3/L4/L5 and S1 ./.i was diagnosed with TOS in 2005 {i have the extra rib and the pain is mainly down my right arm and hand as yet no surgery for the TOS {i hope that i never have to have surgery on it!}i have been in pain for many years now .i take oxycontin and oxynorm for pain control and also use the ACTICARE {TENS} {NEW after a recent trip to the surgeons 2009 i was told that there could be no more surgery on my back due to the extent of degeneration and the only possibly operation maybe ADR i am waiting for a fresh MRI scan SCS and morphine pumps are also out of the equation as they would not be of any use to my medical problems and would cause even more problems contact me on skype under straker1999 ,.i am married to my lovely red head kath [the nurse }for nearly as many years as i have been in pain... !{}
i was worried about you and i'm happy now you are back. hope you feel much better tomorrow
pete
Banned from Spine-Health
Whyme, how are you doing?
are you adjusting to the new med? 
i hope you are catching alittle sleep!! 
Yawning!!!! 
Jenny 
Double laminectomy L4-L5, bulging discs, DDD, Bone spurs, nerve damage in left leg and hip, DJD, and that to familiar visitor,arthritis