Posted by butternut on June 9, 2009, at 15:07:43
In reply to What to Expect? Going from Effexor to Cymbalta, posted by butternut on June 7, 2009, at 13:04:32
Thanks everyone for responding!
The doc put me on the SNRI because I came to him extremely depressed and anxious, 8 weeks postpartum, and he wanted to get me feeling better as fast as possible. I told him that zoloft pooped out on me, lexapro had worked only somewhat in the past, and prozac was not doing much for me. He felt going to a different ssri was going to be a waste of time, so he wanted to start effexor, and said that it usually works quickly. This was definitely the case for me, though I can't say if it was going to continue to help or poop out, as it has only been two months since I started. For what it's worth, I have lost some weight on Effexor, and have had no sexual side affects like with the ssris. Orgasm is maybe a little delayed, but better than before!
He didn't say why he thought I was brusing. I told him I had been taking some vitamins that could be blood-thinning as well as fish oil, and that the brusing got better when I stopped taking them. But he did not think vitamins would be doing that. For some reason he did not think Cymbalta would cause the same problem.
He is a new doc for me (old doc was elderly and had to retire suddenly) and he works in a special place designed to treat people who don't need a hospital but can't wait months to get in with a new psychiatrist.
I am not sure how the switch is going. I am having either a severe sinus infection/headache, a toothache, or a migraine brought on by withdrawl. I am still getting over a recent cold, so it is probably just a sinus infection.
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