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Effexor questions

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d3rf

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Anybody prescribed this? my doc talking about changing me to this in the morning instead of trazodone at night... been reading up a bit on it and the one thing that sounds good is the weight loss... because the seroquel im on has caused me to be extra cautious about my weight.

I read the following off wikipedia which made it sound a lot more interesting than trazodone lol

"Venlafaxine hydrochloride is in the phenethylamine class of modern chemicals, which includes amphetamine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), and methamphetamine. This chemical structure likely lends to its activating properties; however, some patients find venlafaxine highly sedating, despite its more common stimulatory effects."
 
Trazadone is usually just for sleep and it is effective in this role. Effexor wouldn't seem to be a direct replacement. You mean it replaces some other ssri? Been off effexor 4 years now myself. It made me an emotionless zombie with a limp dick at 22 yrs old. Not normal. Harsher withdrawals than other alternatives and I have read few reports with positive experiences. Ymmv.
 
Is the plan to take Effexor in addition to Seroquel? I was on them both years ago but never together at the same time. Trouble I had with Effexor was the doctor had to keep increasing my dosage. I don't see it helping you lose weight as long as you are still on Seroquel.
 
the plan is th usual 800mg seroquel at night and the trazodone dropped from 250mg to 100mg I think then the effexor added un the morning... im not so keen on th effexor now tho tbh. sometimes I wish we just lived in the 20's or something when most medicines just contained cocaine, opium or cannabis. id be happy with the first two probably
 
i tried it for about 2 days, couldnt get out of bed and just felt fucked up. stopped my constant thinking about stuff though and that was nice but it was way too sedating couldnt do anything just wanted to rest.
 
I've been on effexor xr for roughly 3 months now. The first month I started at 75mg/day and took it in the evening because when taking in the morning for the first 7-10 days, I felt extremely exhausted throughout the day. The second (and third) month my dosage was increased to 150mg per day, which I now take in the morning. I only found it to have a sedating effect for the first week/week and a half while adjusting to it and to a much lesser degree when the dose was increased the second month.

I was prescribed this medication for severe social anxiety, and while I was initially very skeptical, I've found myself not taking my entire klonopin rx as prescribed each day (which is huge -- for years I had insisted on klonopin as being my 'miracle drug' for anxiety, definitely never abused or used for recreational use. and I'm only on 2 x 0.5mg per day to begin with, so it's impressive that I can take a half of one 0.5mg to a full 0.5mg per day on average -- of course some days I still require a full 1mg, but effexor has done a lot for my anxiety). I don't suffer from depression, but have been prescribed many anti-depressants over the years due to my extreme anxiety and found them all to be terrible. I routinely find myself objecting to the proposal of any build-up-in-the-blood medications, but my sister is on 300mg of effexor and swore it helped her immensely.
 
yeah I took it around mid day yesterday anf started to feel quite heavy around 10 not really in a nice way. managed to get off the sofa and into bed around 12..still feel a bit sluggish this morning... kind of similar to when was starting trazodone or mirtrazapine or olanzapine etc etc... will see how im feeling after a week on this. the fact alone iv been heavily medicated for years is depressing me more ffs lol
 
I take 225 mg of effexor.....I was at 75 mg for almost a year than my doc raised it to 150 for a month cause I was sinking into MDD again. I have been on 225 for almost five weeks and I find this dosage to be the most effective.....I haven't reached the peal of all the good things but it's slowly getting there......Ummm, it never caused any sedation for me and it is no where a drug to use as a sleep aid........Is there anything else you doc is willing to prescribe for your insomnia? Are you depressed?.....is that the reason cause I have never heard of effexor being used as a sleep aid.
 
no it was not given as a sleep aid... the trazodone and seroquel are meant to help me sleep amongst other things.. he said to take the effexor earlier as it was more of a stimulant but I felt sedation and heavyness a few hours after taking it. iv had zopiclone and benzos in the past but they wont give me zopiclone anymore and im banned from benzos now. getting a good nite sleep rarely happens anyway.
 
It is absolutely nothing like the other phenethylamines listed. It can make you feel tired and agitated at the same time so you cannot lie down. It is called akathesia, which is a horrible side effect involving internal feelings of restlessness. Prepare for your sexuality to be annihilated as well.
 
im thinking today is the last day I take it tbh... lol.
plus I think its affecting my memory somehow too.. and its already terrible.
 
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Effexor..? They should dish that shit out instead of the lethal injection.

Awful stuff. Threw away 2 years of my life on that shit. Stay the fuck away from it is my only advice. I'd sooner chew on my own nut sack instead of ever taking that again.
 
no I dont think im gunna continue this one... two days in and I feel.... weird as fuck. more so than usual. I dont want to eat. my stomach is cramping up. I feel like just lying about. feel very distant from pepple. I think its possibly making me more depressed. and my memory has got far worse than it already is... I dont think continueing these effects much longer are going to be any way useful at all.
thank you for all the info people . appreciate it.
 
d3rf said:
no I dont think im gunna continue this one... two days in and I feel.... weird as fuck. more so than usual. I dont want to eat. my stomach is cramping up. I feel like just lying about. feel very distant from pepple. I think its possibly making me more depressed. and my memory has got far worse than it already is... I dont think continueing these effects much longer are going to be any way useful at all.
thank you for all the info people . appreciate it.
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Honestly, you'll most likely feel like this on any 'anti-depressant' whether it's an SSRI, SNRI, TCA or similar. With any of them, you've just got to hold on in there and *hope* you can benefit from them once the side effects subside.

I hate the drug, but everyone's different and I'd actually plead for you to try and stick with it. You may, as others have, find it very helpful once you're in full swing.
 
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Honestly, you'll most likely feel like this on any 'anti-depressant' whether it's an SSRI, SNRI, TCA or similar. With any of them, you've just got to hold on in there and *hope* you can benefit from them once the side effects subside.

I hate the drug, but everyone's different and I'd actually plead for you to try and stick with it. You may, as others have, find it very helpful once you're in full swing.
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iv been on so many different ones over the years now its annoying... sometimes I wonder what the point in all these drugs with all their side effects is..
 
d3rf said:
iv been on so many different ones over the years now its annoying... sometimes I wonder what the point in all these drugs with all their side effects is..
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I know how you feel. I kicked years of 'anti-depressants' use out of my life on Jan 1st of this year and my life's never been better. I relied on radically changing my lifestyle based on Dr. Steve Ilardi's 'Six-Step Programme to Beat Depression Without Drugs'.

www.amazon.co.uk/The-Depression-Cur...01128840&sr=8-1&keywords=depression+dr+ilardi
 
does he cure insomnia and schizophrenia too? lol. I think that would make the depression go away..
 
I think the trick with antidepressants is that they cause a vague change in consciousness along with a general flatten affect. Once a person gets tolerance to the side effects at a specific dose they can then by coaxed into believing the original effects they cause amount to an improvement in their depression. Call me cynical but I think the whole concept behind antidepressants is a mind trick designed to take advantage of vulnerable people to make money.

At least the original antidepressants were combinations of drugs that can actual cause an increase in one's sense of well-being. There was a so-called rudimentary antidepressant Dexamyl that contained a combination of dextro amphetamine and amobarbital.
 
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