Posted by Denise528 on June 18, 2002, at 15:06:57
Hello,
My Psychiatrist has got me on 2 x 37.5mg of effexor daily for the next month. I have been on them now for over a month but I have messed about with the dose and I don't feel I have got anywhere.
Anyway for just over a week I have taken the prescribed dose consistently and the results haven't been very good. They are relaxing me but I am very drowsy on them and when that feeling passes I just feel really flat, numb, like I'm not alive, it's as if my nerves are numb.
I know that ADs can make you drowsy initially, in the past when I have taken them and they have worked, I have experienced drowsiness but after sleeping it off have woken up feeling alive and refreshed. That just istn't happening with the Effexor and my gut feeling is that they are not working. I can handle physical side affects on ADs but not mental ones.
I have however found, and I have experienced this before, that after I had taken effexor for a week, I missed a day and I felt better than before I took them and better than when I was taking them.
I am now thinking of alternating, taking them every other day, only each time bumping up the dose a bit with the tablets I manage to save up. So first time bump up to 3 tabs, 3rd time bump up to 4 and so-on. By doing this, hopefully on at least some days I can avoid that awful dazed flat feeling and tirate more quickly to a therapeutic dose.
I always feel that if a drug is going to work at the dose taken you will experience some positive effects straight away.
I know that the idea is that you should take them continuously over a long period but I was wonder if anyone else has tried doing this and if so did it work?
Denise
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