Posted by Caleb462 on May 2, 2003, at 23:52:43
In reply to Did it really Poopout? » Caleb462, posted by jack smith on May 2, 2003, at 12:38:34
> > Last visit... my doctor wanted me to up my Effexor to 225 mg a day. I said ok... but quickly changed my mind after I left. The reason for the dosage up is that Effexor has pooped out... it probably won't poop back in after a dose increase, that rarely seems to happen. But it's not just that... I don't want to get the "SSRI effect"... the flattening, you guys know. Besides, SSRIs/SNRIs have never been fully effective for me.
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> How long were you on it before it "pooped out?" The reason I ask is because a lot of people get an initial positive effect then it wanes and they call this poopout. It's not. This is when dosage raising is the most effective when an initial response fades. Poopout usually occurs after at least a year of positive response at a level dose.
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> Also, an increase to 225 is significant because at that level Effexor starts to significantly affect norepinephrine so it's not the same as just raising the dose with an SSRI. Just some thoughts.
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> JACKAha! Well I guess it didn't poop out then... it worked fairly well for a month, and then bam! nothing. So I just took my first dose of 225 mg, I'm gonna go ahead and see what happens until I switch to an maoi or anafranil. I told my doc I was also interesting in trying Provigil, and he said that's fine... so perhaps that will combat the "numbness" I would otherwise feel. I sure hope so... I've always liked the ways SSRIs and Effexor made me feel in some ways - more confident, more stable, more able to react to things appropriately, but I also despise the feeling of "not being able to feel." Like if I know I should be sad or mad about something, and it just won't happen.. my mind won't let me care about ANYTHING. It's disturbing... .but well, we'll see what happens.
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