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Re: Effexor added..success stories please!

Posted by Dauphine on May 4, 2004, at 15:05:06

In reply to Re: Effexor added..success stories please! » Sad Panda, posted by SLS on May 4, 2004, at 14:39:38

Hi All,
I started Effexor about 7 weeks ago and I am very pleased with the results. Effexor is my first AD, and I had no idea what to expect. I remember posting about a month ago asking what I would feel like when it started to work. The responses I got back were basically that it would be very subtle. One of the ways that I knew that it was working was that I was asking strangers (cashiers, waiters, random people) how their day was going. I would NEVER do that before. When my friends would call up to see I how I was, I would talk for hours about the small things that have happened to me recently (not just the horrible big stuff). And I started laughing again, not just at the sarcastic, dry stuff that I usually laugh at, but at lots of little things that I barely would have cracked a smile at before. I feel like it has brought me out of my head and more into what's going on around me. I have basically no side effects (sweating in the night mostly and increased BP) and am at a low dose 75 mg. My doctor said that the "theraputic dose" (150) is basically just the average dose that most people respond to, and that I could be on the bell curve in a different place -- I think he is right. I am also seeing a therapist and that is going really well. I feel like I can finally start to look at my life a little more objectively, so that I can learn how to deal better and not settle into the same patterns I always have. I know that Effexor might not work for everyone, but I feel that right now it is certainly working for me. It does make me a little miffed when I see some of the exaggerated posts about Effexor being such an evil drug. I'm sure that people have had serious problems with it, but that doesn't mean that in all cases you will be miserable on it. I found this board after I made the decision to start Effexor, and I'm glad that I didn't find it before, because there are more negative posts about Effexor than any other drug on here.
So with that, I would like to add a positive post to this thread -- Everyone is different, but sometimes it just takes a little kick in the butt that an AD can give you so that you dig yourself out of your hole and start experiencing a thing called hope again. I don't think I will need to continue Effexor for the rest of my life by any means, but for my situation, I certainly needed something to help me realize that my life is not something that I should consider losing. I actually look forward each week to meeting with my therapist!
Dauphine


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