Posted by Buggers on December 5, 2003, at 12:12:16
Hi, my 15 year old step daughter is on effexor for depression, she has been cutting herself and recently has been smoking pot and experimenting with other drugs like ritalin (putting it up her nose) She also has hereditary angioedema and she takes Danzanol for that. She is very moody all the time and was before she started taking any drugs. She has temper tantrums, she's always depressed, she won't go to school and if she does she skips class a lot of times. This all started when she was 12 after being molested along with problems with her drug addicted Mother who neglected her most of her childhood. Since then we've been to 4 or 5 different psychologists. Instead of dealing with the problems and getting better she has gotten worse. This has been going on for more than 3 years now. My question is: Could she take St. Johns wort and kava kava instead of effexor and what effect does effexor, marijuana and danzanol have when taken together?
At the next Dr. appointment next month I'm going to sujest trying the St. Johns wart and kava kava and decreasing the effexor and even getting off of it all together.Comments please?
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