Posted by Dunder on May 12, 2006, at 9:37:11
In reply to Effexor with alcohol, posted by sfred44 on May 7, 2006, at 20:44:29
Hi,
I am in the process of coming off effexor after having taken it for about 6 years. For that time I have been a student and now work in a university in London. The drinking culture here is pretty intense so I have found avoiding alcohol an impossibility. When I drink on effexor, I find I get quite hyper and over excited. I experience non of the sedation effects you usually get after consuming many drinks. I just get more and more energised. When I was on 75mg this was manageable but on 150 mg I found that I felt very anxious and irritable and thus I had to avoid drinking very much. Also I found that the next day after a big night out I felt pretty good. But by the following evening and the day after I felt anxious, irritable and very depressed. Another thing I noticed is that if I drink within only a few hours of an effexor dose then the anxiety/irritability from alcohol was much worse. I hope this is of some help to you
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