Posted by Sad Panda on January 31, 2004, at 12:07:10
In reply to Any good experience with Effexor? Scared now!, posted by pyschomom on January 30, 2004, at 11:25:56
> I just started on Effexor XR yesterday, have had depression for about two years, was on prozac, just didn't help and went off, drug free for about 6 months and was in quite a state, family begging me to get on something. After reading all the posts I am now terrifed of being on Effexor now. Does anyone have any good experience with this drug. HELP!
Prozac was also the first med I tried, I was on it for about a month & it was sending me around the bend so I got off it & was given Efexor to try.
Efexor is giving me some extremely good moods & a much brighter outlook on things but it gives me some side effects. My doc gave me Remeron to try & it's been great at totally reversing the side effects of Efexor + It gives me the best sleep I have had in my life.
Efexor seems to be flavour of the month with alot of docs & it seems to be with good reason as it does seem to work for alot of people. My advice is to try it for 4-6 weeks & see if your mood lifts and/or the side-effects subside.
Cheers,
Panda.
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