Posted by europerep on June 27, 2015, at 16:36:09
In reply to Re: Synchronised Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation » europerep, posted by SLS on June 27, 2015, at 13:56:41
> That's very encouraging. I didn't have a hint of anorgasmia with Effexor at 300 mg/day. However, I don't remember having had it to begin with. I may have.
Yeah, with me it did start right after I began taking it, so at a dose of 75mg I guess. I think I had read someone else's account where anorgasmia disappeared after a few weeks, so I wasn't too worried and eventually it went away. It was only later that I realized how much sexual side effects are a problem with venlafaxine for the people, and that I was rather lucky with my experience.
> How did Effexor work out for you?It worked somewhat. I was basically functional, but still very depressed. So my strategy back then was to find something to add on to it. I tried mirtazapine, lithium, aripiprazole and methylphenidate as adjunctives (all separately of course). I have all of them a full trial except aripiprazole, which I stopped after two doses because of what I experiences as serious side effects. My theory is that it was mild serotonin syndrome due to its partial agonism at 5HT-1A, but it may also have been something else.
Anyway, eventually I realized venlafaxine would not get me any further than I had gotten so far, and so I decided to go off of it. Oh but to achieve functionality and get maximum benefit from it, I was at 600mg/d for about a year. I think at that point venlafaxine does also have some dopanine reuptake inhibition. But I experienced basically no side effects even at that dose.
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