Posted by Sad Panda on July 15, 2004, at 17:55:49
In reply to Effexor and my blood sugar » Sad Panda, posted by Racer on July 14, 2004, at 13:31:10
> That's one of those stories that proves I'm not a scientist: While I was on Effexor, my husband started testing my blood sugar pretty frequently, because he thought he recognized signs of variation from his own experience. I did notice a *lot* of variation -- off meds, I'm pretty consistently in the low to mid 70s, but on Effexor I was anywhere from high 30s to low 180s -- but only put it together with the Effexor much later, after reading something that said it was one of the effects of long term, high dosage Effexor use shown in a very small number of studies. Light bulb moment for me. Until then, I just thought that I was probably developing some new, weird health problem! Since stopping the Effexor, I'm back to low to mid 70s on the rare occassions my husband checks me.
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> But, scientist or not, I did figure out that checking things like that and *asking* my doctor about weird changes correlating to beginning a new drug were both good ideas.
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> (And, further proof that I'm not doing all that well with The Good Doctor EyeCandy, when I was on Strattera and my periods changed radically, I didn't think to mention it to him -- just assumed that I was heading into menopause a bit earlier than expected! Gotta remind myself sometimes...)
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> You can have all the wishes of luck I can send you, buddy -- you've been so helpful for so many people, you've certainly earned it all.
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>Effexor is definately not for you then! What are you taking at the moment?
Cheers,
Panda.
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