Long sleeve shirts symptoms and conditions

I hate Effexor XR. I don't really know how long I have been on this medicine because I have almost no short term memory since I have been taking it. I am so hot all the time it's just unbearable. I am sweating when my house temp is 68 degrees. I freeze everyone out of the house, out of the car, etc., because I am never comfortable. I no longer own a winter coat because I don't need one unless it is below zero. I don't own any long sleeve shirts except for a denim one in which I wear as my jacket. I wear short sleeve I have discussed this with my doctor whom always tells me he doesn't think the medicine is the cause of this. Although every time he increases the strength I'm taking, the sweating intensifies. I also wake up in the middle of the night gasping for breath, with an irregular heartbeat and/or my heart beat soaring. I have also experienced the problem with taste. Many things I used to love to eat or drink are no longer tolerable. Nothing tastes quite right. I too have had the dry mouth/cotton-throat problems. I have noticed my emotions are screwed up also. I can hardly cry about the most saddest things I have faced, but will cry about stupid things that don't truly matter. I worry about everything, and I DO mean EVERYTHING, luckily it doesn't last too long because nothing can hold my train of thought for very long. My doc has had me on Zoloft, Celexa and others and there were problems with those also. But I feel that Effexor XR is the worst one I have been on that has caused so many other problems while helping the depression/anxiety disorder. I think the bad outweighs the good, but my doctor refuses to agree with me on this and I have no health insurance to take my problem elsewhere. I have never taken Xanax, Valium or any other "controlled" substances because my doc is afraid of his patients becoming addicted to these drugs. Although Effexor XR is apparently addicting too since you have to be weened off of it. I wish I had NEVER begun to take Effexor XR, good luck to all of you that do! If I knew then what I know now, I would NEVER take it!

I received 4 injections of Kenalog - one a month for 4 months - for a skin disorder. Towards the middle of the 3rd month before I got the 4th and last injection I noticed that my forearms were getting these purple looking scrapes or brusies. I called my Dr about 4 days after my last shot - a male nurse gave me the shots and I never saw the Dr a dermatologist (sp?) - and told her what was happening. She said the shots had caused my skin to thin (and I had made a point to ask her about side effects and she said there really weren't any) and that I shouldn't take anymore shots. I asked her if the skin on my arms would repair itself and she said yes it would get better as it renewed itself and to use alpha hydroxie products on it to help it along. That was almost 5 months ago and my arms are still the same. I have been wearing long sleeve shirts since last June to try to protect them but even thru the shirt sleeve if my dogs walks on my arm,all 12 lbs of him or if I hit my arm by accident, I get marks and bruises that look horrible and take weeks to heal. And more are added as previous ones heal so I look a mess. Has anyone else had this problem and if so does it get back to normal skin and how long did it take?