Posted by minicher on May 16, 2005, at 18:34:06
In reply to Effexor XR withdrawl, posted by BeckyMc on April 17, 2005, at 0:00:20
Hello,
I've just joined this today-hope someone can help me with some questions. I have been on effexor for about five years or so having tried a multitude of other anti-depressants-prozac, paxil, wellbutrin, luvox. then we tried Effexor which seemed to work well in the beginning-I guess my GP started me at 75mg. a day or so, but over the past five years as the effect of it has decreased, she has increased me to 375 a day which seems quite high to me. A couple of years ago I started to have "highs" along with the depression and she told me I had probably developed bipolar because of the "high dose " of effexor I was on. Since then I have tried lithium carbonate and lithium, both of which caused major abdominal upset. Then she put me on depakote along with the effexor and I am up to 1500 mg a day of that too. I am starting to feel that old flatness to my thinkiing and crying jags along with bad temper. I don't think she knows what she is doing. I have gained about 50 pounds in five years and the sweating from the effexor is horrible. I think that if I don't feel well on this amount of meds I never will. I would rather taper off everything slowly and see if I can find some coping strategies without the meds. I am going to a consult with her tomorrow and wondered if any of you have any advice? Do you think that 375mgs. of effexor is high? It seems that it is from what I have seen on websites.thanks,
Minicher
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