Posted by bleauberry on June 23, 2012, at 13:46:47
In reply to Why am I dizzy upon standing? Effexor withdrawal, posted by novelagent on June 21, 2012, at 14:30:13
Medicines can, and do, do other stuff we don't know about. Could effexor somehow have reset stuff in the adrenal/thyroid axis? I would think so, though I don't know. Whatever thing it did, will it take months to go away? Years? Never? Don't know.
You can however to some testing to try to find out what is going on. One test involves taking blood pressure while laying down, then taking it again immediately with no hesitation upon standing. Cardiologists I believe have a variety of ways to test to see if it is a heart problem or not.
Not to be discouraging, but the reality is there are many things in the medical world they admit they cannot help us with because they don't know. Dizziness, if all their routine testing shows nothing, is one of those areas. Whether it was directly from effexor or not we will probably never know. But the blood pressure laying/standing test and a talk with a professional who knows this stuff I think would be good places to start.
I had that kind of dizziness for about a month after stopping Paxil. Years later the post-Zoloft dizziness took almost a solid 2 months before it was almost gone.
> When I was not ob a steady state of an antidepressant, I would get dizzy upon standing up. So when I stopped taking Effexor, I expected the dizziness from stopping, but only for a few days. I've now been off of it for 2 months, and I'm still getting dizzy when I stand up.
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> There was a recent stUdy that found feeling dizzy while standing was associated with death from heart problems. Is there anything that can be done about this? Will it ever go away?
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