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Re: Can an annoying side effect that you had once. » honeybee

Posted by yxibow on June 12, 2006, at 6:05:04

In reply to Re: Can an annoying side effect that you had once. » yxibow, posted by honeybee on June 11, 2006, at 11:06:26

> Jay,
>
> I think you're giving good advice. Probably what happened is that, in the midst of the worst, absolute scraping my belly on the bottom of the ocean bad, depression of my life, I went on effexor, had an elevated heart rate, and then went bonkers for the next million or so months (basically until now) monitoring it, following up on it, trying to figure out ways to lower it (on the one hand, while avoiding activities that raise it--stupid, I know).

The more you hit your head against the wall... no, its not your fault, you may be very sensitive to Effexor. And if you think about purple elephants enough....


> My pcp is wary of me trying effexor again, and I have to say that Cymbalta was my other of my choices. I don't mind the activiting antidepressants--in fact, I *loved* the way that Effexor made me feel--it's just that I would like to avoid that slightly exhausted feeling of having run up the stairs when I've only moved part way across the room. That was a little annoying (and the last time, when it caused tachycardia). Other than that I've really only tried SAM-e and Lexapro, which made me super tired.


Some people respond to stimulants for anxiety, some respond to calming agents -- I tend to be more to the down of things. I must say that (well I do take a fairly substantial amount of benzodiazepines so that may partially cover up things) even at 110 I'm just starting to barely notice effects of Cymbalta.


From what my psychopharmacologist has said actually a lot of people find Cymbalta sedating. I have found it neither way really -- maybe a minor elevation from say 75-80 to 85bpm, but nothing significant. I do have propranolol on hand though for those emergency situations where one of my countless medications does something wierd.


> Basically, I'm looking forward to the change in my hair color from brown to pink, the warbling of canaries that will follow me wherever I go, and whatever other side effects I'm *guaranteed* to get by going on Cymbalta or Luvox or whatever.... hah. When I can fly, I'll make sure to let everyone know.

Yes, please do give us the secret to zen levitation... j/k... no, that's a good outlook on things

-- tidings

Jay

 

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