Lidocaine topical for Pruritus: Uses, Side Effects, Warnings, and Dosing Information

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I take this medication and do just fine with it and it takes away all the swelling. No side effects...

The first 6 months I took this drug I got a great deal of relief from the FM pain. I slept better and felt better. After 6 months I had to increase the dosage to 60 mg to get the same benefit...but then the dreaded side effects kicked in. The weight gain, crazy thinking, memory loss, concentration problems, loss of libido, pain coming back like I was on fire, and on and on. I did not get suicidal but I sure had anger issues that were like a personality change. In fact looking back on those two years I was a different and not entirely likable me. The other thing to know about SSRIs is that you cannot just stop them or the side effects are mind numbing like spacial disorientation, dizziness, vertigo, nausia, blurred vision, pain. It took me 1 full year and two times to get off this dreadful drug. I had to keep going back on the 30 mg just to let my system calm down from the withdrawal. There is something called SSRI withdrawal syndrome. Look it up and you may think twice about this drug or if you want to come off of it know that for every year you have been on it you need about half that time to come off it. Better yet try something else although I do understand that those with severe depression and anxiey have some major brain biochemistry challenges that only a major dangerous drug like this will help. My sympathies are with you if you have to take this drug and realize several years into it that you have to keep increasing it or you start to experience side effects

I would never take it again its not worth the side effects or the risk of lossing weight like 15 lb in 2 weeks. READ all the side effect before they tell you to take this medication

i was on the pill for 2 years before i started to get any real major side effects, but none the less they did eventualy come .

The adverse reactions I read that others had experienced are the culprit of my very minor side effects, including anxiety, insomnia (a result of the anxiety), trembling, and twitching. Since I stopped googling, all of my symptoms have subsided. ALL drugs have side effects and I understand that this class of drugs seems to have more than its fair share, however, I thankfully did not experience any of these. Further, so-called support groups, such as the Fluoroquinolone Toxicity group on Facebook, do more to upset folks than they do to support each other.