[DigitalJack]

effexor, aka venlafaxine, gave me some amazingly horrible vertigo if I missed more than 1 dose in a row. I was off antidepressants for about 2 years, and then I was hit with severe depression. I'm on the generic for paxil now, and it has made a huge difference. The impact was a night and day contrast.

[philjohn]

Someone I know who took it said they got what they could only describe as "head shocks" - the effect of small pulses of electricity flowing through their brain during withdrawal.

[jhanschoo]

I got these when I first began taking antidepressants with fluoxetine/Prozac, never felt myself for a very long time afterwards.

[x0]

Ah yes, those jolts of electricity. I got those for a month after escitalopram.