Posted by Jost on June 10, 2006, at 19:50:25
In reply to Re: Can an annoying side effect that you had once. » honeybee, posted by yxibow on June 10, 2006, at 14:35:39
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> But for you, perhaps Effexor is not the right medication. You may need a more sedating one like Cymbalta, or perhaps a sedating SSRI like Luvox -- I don't know what you are taking it for, depression, or an anxiety complex, but I'm just grasping at straws.
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> -- JayCymbalta isn't considered a sedating drug, in general. It's more on the activating side, for most people.
One reason why Cymbalta was hoped tobe more effective than Effexor is that while they raise levels of serotonin and noradrenaline, cymbalta raises noradrenaline much more than effexor, which doesn't do much of that at lower doses.
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