Posted by Mr Cushing on October 23, 2002, at 0:15:54
In reply to Anyone else have heart racing on effexor?, posted by Murray on October 22, 2002, at 21:33:23
Tai, that's a normal start-up side effect of the medication. You didn't think you were going to get away scott free from taking this stuff, did you? lol... Anyways, slow down your workouts for the next 3-4 weeks significantly. You'll SLOWLY gain your energy back within about a month's time frame. It's only your 2nd week now so I'm pretty sure that's what it is since I went through the exact same thing when starting on the drug.Murray, I also wound up having that racing heart after doing just about anything physical. I would get dizzy and my body would be pouring sweat over just the slightest thing that I used to be able to do with ease. I was also extremely restless, had TONS of energy, but that could be because I was diagnosed as being Bi-Polar II and the Effexor was making me just a tad hypomanic.
Now you didn't say what your dosage was of the medication. I was taking 75mg every day when I was experiencing the same thing. In order to solve this problem, I increased the time span of my dosage to 36 hours. For the next week that symptom seemed to disappear almost immediately. Couldn't tell you what happened after a week though since I finally added a Mood Stabilizer along with it (Depakote). Every day now I'm getting closer and closer to that "even keel" that Doctors are always talking about though.
How does Effexor work for depression anyways? I know for anxiety it does wonders if you stick with it, but I never heard of it doing anything significant for somebody suffering from depression as of yet.
lol... as a side note to that 36 hour thing, it can be kind of a pain in the "you know what" after a little bit. Tonight I was exhausted, fell asleep at 8PM while watching TV. It's now about 1am and I was supposed to take my medication tonight. Woke up having a minor panic attack so now I'm surfing the Net waiting for both the Effexor and the Klonopin to kick in so I can get a few more hours of sleep. But if you take the drug exactly on a 36 hour schedule, you'll find that the racing heart seems to disappear almost immediately. Doctor never really gave me any explanation for that though.
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