Posted by AnneL on March 15, 2002, at 23:38:03
I can't believe it! Just 2 days ago I fell into a deep depression which I think was triggered by
the one year anniversary of my only two teenage daughters moving to Arizona to live with their father when I became severely depressed. I was so afraid, afraid to live and afraid to die. I thought I had hit the dreaded "poop out" and that I was SOL. But thank God for a very caring former pdoc (lost him when I lost my insurance) who took my phone call and gave me hope, encouragement and called a supposedly very well-known and brilliant psychopharmacologist who I will be seeing on Tuesday. My last plea was, what can I do now to get some relief before Tuesday?!! He very simply and calmly advised me to increase my dose by 37.5 mg. up to 262.5 mg. and hold on tight until Tuesday. He said to call him at home if I needed anything! Within 8 hours of taking the additional 37.5 mg. I started to feel relief. I may be a little jittery maybe once or twice during the day, but the black hole has been held at bay. So the long and short of it is this, Effexor may not be the only medication I need, but before you dump it, make sure you get your pdoc to increase the dose before you call it a failure. :) AnneL
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