Wow, did it affect me.

I didn't even realize I missed one. I take them after dinner normally, since when I started they were making me sleepy. But things have just been so hectic lately. I went out to a work dinner party and didn't get home until after midnight and just totally forgot to take it.

Now, it's an Effexor XR 150 mg. I know that you can't just stop cold turkey but I didn't realize missing just ONE day would hit me so hard. I didn't even realizing I'd missed it, but by the next afternoon I was getting these little bouts of vertigo, and felt this really disturbing 'prickling' on the back of my neck when I had them. It was like something was scratching lightly at my neck from the inside, that's the best I can explain it. I could still do stuff -- I even played Dance Dance Revolution for an hour or two -- but it was just freakishly uncomfortable.

I realized when I went to take my pill last night that I'd missed a pill the day before. I called the night duty doctor, and he thought it was a little strange that I was having withdrawal symptoms after just a missed dose. I called my doctor this morning, and she told me that it was definitely possible, and that what I was describing was consistent with withdrawal. And that if it didn't return I didn't need to come in, just keep taking it consistently.

So, wow. I don't like my brain playing tricks on me. That was just freaky, I live at home alone and it weirded me out. I made sure my mom called me this morning just to check on me.

So now I'm kind of bothered by the fact that I'm taking a medicine that can freak me out so much with one missed dose. I don't know, it's helping a lot, but still it's scary.

I took myself off paxil once and it was an awful feeling. The vertigo is the worst. The fist time I had a bad sideswipe wobble I was at the top of the stairs!

We have to remember that these medications actually alter our brain chemistry. Is the 150 all in one cap? I maybe would have taken 75 part way through the day when I realised I'd missed it.

Oh do I know how this feels! And any doctor that says you can't experience this after only one missed dose is either crazy, uneducated or plain lying!!

As much as the Effexor has helped me I also hate the fact that I feel so whacked if I miss one pill (also XR 150 - take mine in the morning, so I'm insane by dinner time!) and wonder how I'll EVER come off!

I have an alarm on my cell phone that gives me a reminder every day. Can you set something like that up for yourself so you don't miss again? I only miss when I don't make it on time to the pharmacy. My alarm goes off every day at 10am but 9 times out of 10 I've taken it way before then.

Mine's all in one pill, and I didn't realize I missed it until I took one the next night. And then all my weird symptoms made sense.

It's actually pretty good for me, just missing one in about 4 months. I am absolutely horrible at remembering to take pills. I've managed even on late night business trips and plane flights and meetings, I'm usually prepared. Just, the holiday season has me thrown off kilter.

What if you took your vitamins at the same time? It's a mind game but .... consider it another step in your health care plan. food, exercise, pill time ...

Usually it works out okay, I take my vitamins when I brush my teeth in the morning, and the Effexor when I brush my teeth at night. It was just coming home so late and tumbling into bed directly, no brushing teeth or anything, that messed me up.

Still weird that one missed pill can cause such a reaction. It worries me for when I decide it's time to go off it, even if I'm dosing down and not going cold turkey.

I know how it is. I've actually taken myself off Welbutrin XL. I couldn't stand how dizzy it made me feel. I still feel dizzy, but not nearly as bad since I stopped taking it. But I've also been irritable in bouts. Sometimes I'm okay, but if something gets under my skin it REALLY gets under my skin. I want to strangle someone. Luckily it's just the people I interact with on the online game I play. So I can't hurt them, and I can just turn the game off. But anyway, meds can sometimes mess with us more than we think.

You what did you switch to Blessedbe?

I'm not on anything for my depression right now. I can't get in to see my doc until Monday. But I'm doing okay without the meds. I still feel dizzy sometimes, but I'm not depressed.

Effexor is EVIL. Coming off, even under a dr's supervision, was like coming off heroin. I weaned down so slowly, 1/2 pill at a time, but then at the very end, I could miss ONE day of the 1/2 pill, but when I tried to skip TWO - I can't even describe it. "Brain zaps," I've heard people call it, but that doesn't come close in my opinion. It was ****.