I have been taking Effexor xr 150mg/day for over a year and recently have new possible side effects including; aggitation, headache, extreme moodiness, skin crawling, nausea, fatigue. I have taken ativan to deal with this. Could effexor be the cause?

Submitted by Newfoundland6 Tue 09/07/2010

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