Posted by dancingstar on January 25, 2005, at 16:34:18
In reply to Re: A POSITIVE EFFEXOR XR EXPERIENCE~ » SLS, posted by FaithT on January 25, 2005, at 10:50:55
Am I misunderstanding the trial for efficacy to be based on four-week studies?
I surely hope that no doctor that I go to would base their decision to give me a medication based on such limited evaluation of a drug, an evaluation that does not include all of the possible side effects that begin to become apparent only after someone has taken a drug for three months, six months, or maybe even a year.
In some of the links I have posted doctors have found that Prozac only helps marginally in assisting patients to stop taking Effexor without having exteme pain. Some say that over 60 percent of their patients have trouble when they stop taking it. Some say that some of their patients will have to take it for the rest of their lives. I've previously posted those links.
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