Posted by zinya on December 16, 2002, at 11:34:20
In reply to Re: Effexor --some little big Qs (to Bizzou and all) » zinya, posted by khead on December 15, 2002, at 14:18:18
Thanks, khead, for your response. I wrote you back yesterday but now it's not on the screen, so i guess it got swallowed in cyberspace somehow ... and now am searching to recall what i had said and asked :) ...
I've now seen your earlier post too which helps to understand how long you've been on Effexor and your 'symptoms' thus far...
I certainly identify with the waking up at 4-5 am and then flipping in bed with that interminable stream of screwed-up thoughts... I still have yet to start trying Effexor. Once I read on here about such severe-sounding side effects and even withdrawal after just a few days, i confess i got concerned (my md. hadn't told me of any side effect risks but just the 'plus side' of treating two systems at once - serotonin and norepenephrine)** and I still haven't decided if the risks vs. potential rewards would favor at least a trial. My system has over the years been very sensitive to any drugs even when doctors, knowing that, sometimes have had me try less than the minimum-dose pill for starters, so i was grateful to find this site and to at least be forewarned (since Effexor sounds more potent than others i've tried but couldn't tolerate) -- and so far it made me try a while longer 'on my own' but i'm not finding any force for rallying to do the myriad more important tasks awaiting me -- In your words, i do feel "stuck" indeed. (My main concern was a sense of depression but i am starting to realize in past month that anxiety is a lot of what i'm dealing with.)
Well, i do thank you and i will be glad to hear your input. Right after I first posted here, there seemed to be a sudden lull and few postings so I am appreciating discovering a batch of new posts here to reflect on.** After finding and devouring posts on this site, i re-asked my md. -- internal med. not a shrink -- and he said he has approx 200 patients on Effexor and none with side-effect problems that he knew of. That became kind of mind-boggling (as if he were doling it out -- 200 seems like a lot of patients on it for one md.) and also curious or hard to believe, after reading here, that none of them would be having problems...
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