Posted by DarkWind on April 13, 2001, at 20:52:41
In reply to effexor xr, posted by javapanic on April 13, 2001, at 15:11:23
javapanic -
i've been on effexor for about five months, just went up to 300mg today. like you, there has been some problem with weight gain; which i had thought was not supposed to happen on effexor. the memory loss and confusion are things i'm having to deal with. examples of this would be scoring 100% on a 300-question final exam; but not being able to remember learning the material, studying, and finally not being able to remember taking the final exam. today, i just about caused a scene in a parking lot because i remembered parking the truck close to a tree; then found when i went out that it had moved. the people i was with swore that the truck was where it had been left - but i still do not remember parking there, i distinctly remember parking close to that tree.
skipping a dose - i've slipped up two or three times, i've noticed that each time i slip up and miss a dose, it's worse than the time before. you obviously appreciate what this implies; so i won't go into details.
i'm not sure whether i want to come off of this stuff or not. i know that i'm not "healed" and i know that this stuff is probably doing some pretty nasty things to my head - but i think that i'm at least a bit better off right now than i was before, when i was on zoloft, and prior to that when i was not on any medication. i feel like i may be trading one set of symptoms for another; but i haven't really figured out what i'm going to do about that just yet.
i've also noticed that the sexual side effects for this drug are no joke - they really bothered me at first (being "superman" is only entertaining for a little while, then it gets old). now, however, i could really care less - the thought of going celibate has crossed my mind more than once recently.
i've been told that the memory loss is more likely a side effect of the depression and not a side effect of the medication. i'm not really sure about that - i can't really bring my mind into the focus needed to make an accurate judgment. i figure at this point i'll ride it out another month and then go from there.
poster:DarkWind
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