Posted by shadowmon on May 25, 2008, at 19:06:11
In reply to Re: Effexor... what's going on? I'm worried, posted by shadowmon on May 25, 2008, at 19:04:38
> > General rule is that six to eight weeks at an adequate dose should show you what the medication will do for you. If there are still residual symptoms, you can choose to switch or augment the medication. And there are a lot of augmentation strategies you can try.
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> > The nice thing about Effexor is that it does tend to help a lot with anxiety. If it's effective for your anxiety, it's probably worth continuing it to see what it will do for the depression, too. Adding something else to help with any residual depression symptoms is probably in your favor.
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> > Good luck.
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> I tried stepping up on thrursday and to be honest I am feeling not much better at all.... I have no gat churning, but am very tense, can't del with going out in public and don't want to do anything, and feel depressed... I don't know if it has to do with the increase in dosage or what.
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> I know when I was on the paxil I would feel like this and it would eventually getbetter, but I never had it to thepoint where I was feeling ok and then things start crashing down on me like It did with thiw. anyone else feel like this when starting effexor??I forgot to mention that the only time that I seem to feel "decent" is at night when I take trazodone to sleep (50mg).
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