Posted by june19 on March 8, 2005, at 0:23:46
Hey, I'm a college student that has dealt with depression off and on for years and has recently been diagnosed as "severely" depressed. I started taking Effexor XR 75 6 weeks ago and after a week of horrible side effects it started to work, only to stop after another two. I was then bumped up to Effexor 150, on which I experienced no side effects and truly started to feel normal again....until a couple days ago when I started lying awake for hours at night, and stopped being able to get out of bed.
Last night after taking my pill, I was arguing with my boyfriend online and suddenly I just felt suicidal. It wasn't so much our argument, but it was as though something had just snapped in my brain. I lied awake all night and then managed to drag myself out of bed to see my therapist, feeling completely out of it and utterly depressed(who immediately noticed a difference), and then my doctor, who wrote me a prescription for Effexor 225mg.
I've taken the first of that new dose and the suicidal feelings are gone, but I'm questionning whether I should continue on 225 or just try 150 for longer. Can I do that? Should I do that? The 150 was working fine and I'm just wondering whether it was just some random incident or I was overtired or something-even though it definitely felt chemical- I'm also concerned, with going up to so high a dosage, and the differences in how it affects my brain.
Can somebody please offer me some advice? My doctor pretty much only prescribes, and my therapist is pretty disconnected from the medication side. Thanks for your patience
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