Posted by lorily on July 27, 2004, at 14:42:26
In reply to Effexor and Alcoholism, posted by Rockson on July 27, 2004, at 11:59:17
Rockson, I strongly recommend that you stop drinking. Are you taking this medication for depression? If so, why are you taking a depressant? alcohol. The drive to drink is not going to just go away on its own. Trust me, if you are able to stop and your life improves and you work a program of recovery, you will never honestly be able to come up with one good reason TO drink. I'm an alcoholic in recovery, I've had many excuses to drink, they were not reasons. Unless you consider the desire to slowly kill myself and sink deeper into depression a reason, then yeah, sure I guess I did have a reason.
It's extremely dangerous to mix the meds with alcohol. Just imagine how good you would feel if you weren't screwing up what good the effexor is doing for you? I doubt you would have had to increase the dosage.
Good luck to you!!!!
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