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Re: Effexor XL

Posted by Mick3000 on March 5, 2005, at 8:59:42

In reply to Re: Effexor XL » broken, posted by WellaGirl on March 5, 2005, at 0:40:19

I clalled the pharmacist and she said I couldn't go on both at the same time but your doc knows better. I am now on 75 mg and feel better pretty good. If I go higher I have anxiety. The side effects all went away in one week. Call a couple of phamacies and see what they say. Good luck. Sometimes depression just happens, and there is nothing to be ashamed. I too now have a great house, husband and "dog" but I still miss my parents and its been 3 years. We were really close and they were my foundation. Let me know how you do at the docs, ok. My e-mail address is mick3000@msn.com.

Mick


> I stated on effexorxl at the 35 mg dose for 1 week then went up to the 75mg for a week. My doctor wanted me to come back at the 2 weeks mark to tell her how I was feeling. Well,I am a naturally a high strung person and after 3 years of one tragic thing after another I just thought I was sick. I was always in the gym, ate pretty good and have always been health and happy. When I had a hard time getting to the gym and felt irritable, lack of drive and short tempered my doctor ran every test, thyroid, hormone (to make sure I wasn't going into early menopause), blood sugar, you name it and they tested for it. After a week all tests came back great, but some how I felt sad because I wanted to know what was wrong so I could fix it.
>
> I was shocked when she said the test I took said I was depressed, I hadn't had time to be depressed and thought depressed meant in bed all the time. I have everything I have ever wanted a great husband, great parents, great career, financially secure, thin in shape, and I was the one people wanted to be like so how could I be depressed?
>
> So anyway, after the two weeks I felt kind of like a zombie-not as sad, but not really happy, almost numb. I went back into the Dr. and she said I should try Wellbutrin XL, but she did not want me to stop the effexor cold turkey so I took 1-150mg wellbutrin with 1 effexor 35mg for 1 week and for the first time I felt great, my sex drive was back (my husband liked that part ha ha), I was in the gym two times a day, my drive was back and I thought wow! I forgot what it was like to feel good. But then when it was time for me to be on only wellbutrin 150mg for 1 week I felt more anxious, aggressive, short tempered. She said to go 1 more week on just the wellbutrin and see how I felt because she want to make sure I wasn't having a withdrawal from the effexor. She said they can bump up the wellbutrin to 300mg which is the standard but I am afraid I would become a raving lunatic. There has been no change in the way I feel just taking the 150 mg of wellbutrin. My doctor said that it is perfectly normal to be on wellbutrin xl and effexor xl at the same time but I do not see anything about mixing these two drugs on any websites. All I know is I felt great, lost 2 pounds (I only weigh 107 lbs. so I don't want to loss weight) I am not as hungry, and I seem so much calmer.
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> Sorry this is so long but I wanted to see if anyone else has gone through something like this. I am only 4 weeks into this and I am supposed to tell her on Tuesday if I want to add the effexor back in with the wellbutrin, and I feel I do. Are there any thoughts or advice?
> Thank for reading this
> WellaGirl


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