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Effexor xr, one of the most underrated drugs

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Well it seems I'm on the fence with this. I mean it does take awhile to work but when it kicks you can feel the medication channeling whatever receptors it works on....Also I was reading where this guy would buy the drug via legal websites. And he found that a large dose capsule cracked open and absorbed thru the tongue gave him a great rush.....Now I'm on 150 and I cracked a 75 that i had to make 225 and I just feel like the hopelessness is gone. Like I can focus but not like a amp where you know your on one and want to just chat....or party or whatever......Now I see the doc Monday which I'm going to press the issue that i think it needs to be bumped up to 225....So all in all is there anyone here that agrees with me.......? I'm not saying to get high or all messed up. I'm saying it improves a lot that you may struggle with like attention......anxiety and depression.
 
I highly advise against ephexor, it works for some but I recently had an increase In my dose and had such a bad reaction from side affects that for the first time in my life I wanted to guzzle muriatic acid and kill myself. I wound up having over 47 lacerations due to the extreme depression the increase caused. I will never take it again and am currently withdrawing from it. Be careful doing that. and I have never heard of anyone ever getting high from it, not euphoric anyways
 
If it helps your depression, don't let anyone talk you out of it. I would suggest taking it as prescribed though. If you need a higher dose your doctor will be happy to prescribe it.
 
I agree with abracadabra if it works don't mess that up because then you could be in a worse place and have what happened to me
 
Effexor was possibly the worst drug i have ever taken. The side effects such as insomnia, sexual dysfunction, total lack of appetite as well as making me manic as fuck was just brutal. The withdrawals coming off effexor was so bad it makes opiate withdrawals look like a wet dream.

I wouldn't touch that drug again if you fucking paid me. And trust me you will pay later on for hitting those high doses.
 
At a time when I was open to taking antidepressants, a doctor put me on Effexor, and prescribed half of the 75 mg dose. This one half of a dose left me feeling very strange. I don't recall it enough to offer a description of the side effects, but I do remember that I didn't go to a class that day because it seemed very "alien:" A situation that seems like nonsense to me in hindsight. I described it to the doctor at the time as "feeling like a drank a bottle of cough syrup."

Anyway, he told me at the time that "some people can't tolerate it." He also told me that it is really difficult to cease its use once it has become active. And this is coming from a doctor who seem to deny that my amphetamine prescription could cause side effects.

So, I can't recommend it, but I agree that you shouldn't let anyone talk you out of it if it's helping.
 
I haven't tried venlaxafine but I have been on duloxetine.

The thing too many people seem to fail to grasp is that SNRI's are just SSRI's at lower doses. For effexor, there's little to no Norepinephrine activity at 150mg. At 225mg there is, and this is the effect you're feeling.
Taking low dose SNRI's doesn't result in NRI.

I went up to 240mg on dulo, 180mg was my highest daily/SS dose, but I found it to do fuck all for me. I quit cold turkey from 180mg and experienced no w/d, so that might say something about.

225mg really isn't a high dose; it's an SNRI dose and >150mg doses only have SSRI effects. Given what you've said, I'd even recommend asking about roboxetine or whatever that NRI is called.
People react differently to a/d's and everyone with bad experience will tell you to get off them. Most people are very sensitive to w/d so I suggest any changes in dose are done gradually.

You're all good, OP. Though if you can "channeling whatever receptors it works on" you may want to try cracking half a 75mg next time.
 
^ If you want a drug that acts as a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor id say go with the NDRI bupropion or a tricyclic such as imipramine. Amitriptyline along with being a tricyclic is a SNRI that for some reason never gave me the shitty side effects and wd that effexor gave me. And yeah you have to hit the high doses before effexor starts working on norepinephrine at all. In the really high doses it may hit dopamine.
 
Was on Effexor for 18 months.

Disgusting drug. Wouldn't go near it if you paid me.
 
If it helps, take it. Be warned, though, that withdrawl from this stuff, as many have found out the hard way, is pure hell. I was on 225 mg / day when I realized I had to come off. I posted my account of the ordeal in this thread, in which the OP was going CT off 150 mg. Know what you're getting yourself into.
 
Never taken an SNRI. Been on countless SSRIs though. And of course Wellbutrin. Glad you got such a good effect from a second-line AD. It's not typically recreational.
 
It's recreational to bipolar people, anything that causes mania is attractive...

Being manic is an exhilarating feeling during bipolar depression...

Be warned. You may act completely out of character one day if you indeed are bipolar.
 
For some reason it just hit like bam! And I'm only taking 150 mg because I want to do as the doc says until I see him. For the most part it's a subtle change but a change that is so strong that I didn't want to sleep last night and woke up refreshed. Yes I have heard all the horror stories about this drug so I know when that day comes it's probably going to suck.
 
I withdrew from 412.5mg after taking it at that dose for 6 months and taking it in general for a year.

It took me 3 months to withdraw, I felt that my brain was being electrocuted. I felt like I had arthritis in every joint in my body. I woke up every night in cold sweats. I felt like I had the flue for 3 months.

I supplemented this withdrawal with Prozac and 10mg Diazepam 4x per day.

They should give that instead of the lethal injection.
 
Rybee said:
I withdrew from 412.5mg after taking it at that dose for 6 months and taking it in general for a year.

It took me 3 months to withdraw, I felt that my brain was being electrocuted. I felt like I had arthritis in every joint in my body. I woke up every night in cold sweats. I felt like I had the flue for 3 months.

I supplemented this withdrawal with Prozac and 10mg Diazepam 4x per day.

They should give that instead of the lethal injection.
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Rybee, did it work for you at all?. I mean that is a crazy high dose......I think if I got to 225 and still felt nothing after twelve weeks I would be on my way to weaning and trying something else.
 
Effexor is horrifically shitty, it annihilated my sexuality and caused extreme akathesia almost immediately. I do not know what the fuck you are talking about it is one of the most grotesquely horrendous pharmaceuticals in existence. I am calling bullshit unless you are some kind of self-destructive masochist.

It is such a bad, poisonous substance I really cannot believe you are making these claims.
 
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