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Posted by Julie on April 11, 2000, at 20:59:21
I just started taking Effexor last week, one week at 37.5 mg and this week I started 75 mg and next week I go to 150 mg where I'll stay for a while. My family doc prescribed it for mild depression and anxiety. From day one, I experienced a terrible migraine (which I have a history of) which lasted 4 days. Then when I upped the dose, the migraine is back. The nausea only lasted a couple days and is gone. Has anyone taken this who has a history of migraines? what's your experience? My prescription of Imitrex isn't helping much. I'm wondering if all this is worth it or if I should go off it and just deal with my issues drug free. I'm also concerned about the withdrawl symptoms when I do decide to go off it. How bad are they?
Posted by Cindy W on April 11, 2000, at 21:45:13
In reply to Just starting Effexor, posted by Julie on April 11, 2000, at 20:59:21
> I just started taking Effexor last week, one week at 37.5 mg and this week I started 75 mg and next week I go to 150 mg where I'll stay for a while. My family doc prescribed it for mild depression and anxiety. From day one, I experienced a terrible migraine (which I have a history of) which lasted 4 days. Then when I upped the dose, the migraine is back. The nausea only lasted a couple days and is gone. Has anyone taken this who has a history of migraines? what's your experience? My prescription of Imitrex isn't helping much. I'm wondering if all this is worth it or if I should go off it and just deal with my issues drug free. I'm also concerned about the withdrawl symptoms when I do decide to go off it. How bad are they?
Julie, I've been lucky not to have headaches, just some dizziness occasionally with Effexor-XR. I've read from others' postings that headaches tend to go away after a week or two (see the above posts). Hope things go well for you! You may want to try to decrease the dose back to 37.5 for a while, and if you can tolerate that without headaches, increase it VERY VERY SLOWLY. I've read that increasing and withdrawing it slowly are really important.
Posted by Sue on April 24, 2000, at 1:38:39
In reply to Just starting Effexor, posted by Julie on April 11, 2000, at 20:59:21
> I just started taking Effexor last week, one week at 37.5 mg and this week I started 75 mg and next week I go to 150 mg where I'll stay for a while. My family doc prescribed it for mild depression and anxiety. From day one, I experienced a terrible migraine (which I have a history of) which lasted 4 days. Then when I upped the dose, the migraine is back. The nausea only lasted a couple days and is gone. Has anyone taken this who has a history of migraines? what's your experience? My prescription of Imitrex isn't helping much. I'm wondering if all this is worth it or if I should go off it and just deal with my issues drug free. I'm also concerned about the withdrawl symptoms when I do decide to go off it. How bad are they?
I've been taking Effexor 150 mg for about 3 months now and found it took awhile to get into my system, about 4 weeks. I've had a week long migraine headache from it too-- to the point of nausea. But that only happened once. I've missed a dose and ran into the same thing. Good question.
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