Posted by bleauberry on April 4, 2011, at 5:03:33
In reply to From which dose venlafaxine is stimulant?, posted by Franz on April 1, 2011, at 11:57:17
I wouldn't count on effexor for stimulation. I mean, sure, it could give some of that stimulation that some people feel from boosted serotonin, which is usually a short term phenomenon.
The best med is the one that feels best to you. No study is going to tell us which one that is. In the studies determining which is superior, they are naturally biased depending on who sponsored and wrote the study. All meds at one time or another have been deemed superior to others. But even the ones that were superior...were only superior by a few percentage points...nothing to celebrate about.
All that said, I've heard effexor begins to get more stimulating about 225mg, and more so around 350mg. Those doses are where its very small effect on norepineprhine and dopamine begin to have some slight relevance compared to serotonin.
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