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Re: Anyone had success on Effexor XR?

Posted by michelle a. on January 13, 2002, at 13:00:14

In reply to Re: Anyone had success on Effexor XR? , posted by Paulio on January 12, 2002, at 13:57:36

i did the same as you, did some research on effexor before taking it and stumbled upon this site. i was looking for an alternative to paxil because of the sexual side effects, and had heard that effexor was better in that area. so i tried it. i found that it was no different as far as the side effects, and when i missed a couple of dosed by accident, boy, what a freaky feeling!! my doctor prescribed wellbutrin to help with the sexual side effects, and it did help a little. but then i thought, why take this if it's not helping the problem i had in the first place? so i asked my dr. if i could just wean off the effexor and do the wellbutrin by itself. i had taken it before but had headaches, but this time around wasn't getting them. so she agreed. but the weaning off!!! i was on 150 mg (xr) and went to 75 for a week, then 37.5 for a week, and stopped (her directions). way too fast. very dizzy, to the point of being nausious (sp). so i then did 37.5 every other day for a week and then stopped. STILL had the side effects. so it came to just taking it when i couldn't stand it anymore, and now i'm off of it, but not without a lot of frustration and dizziness. i still get that feel-like-i'm-falling effect sometimes, but not as bad as before and very few and far between. to sum up: i didn't like it, but a lot of people have had success. if you do go on it and then decide that it isn't for you, just make sure to wean off, and it would be a good idea to have a psychiatrist do it, not a gp like i had. they go by the "book" and the book isn't always like real life. but my gp didn't know that because she's not a psychiatrist. good luck!!!!


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