Posted by metafunj on November 1, 2009, at 23:47:24
In reply to anhedonia possibly induced by remeron, posted by Stone on November 1, 2009, at 20:31:57
If you read about someone experiencing that with prozac there is a good chance it may have been me. I tried to avoid drugs completely after that experience of losing part of myself. Only after 6 years of getting worse and experiencing less and less emotions did I consider trying drugs again. For me I believe its a dopamine problem. Ironically I was considering Remeron for the problem.
Antagonizing the receptors you mentioned should increase hedonia not decrease it. However coming off SSRIs can cause anhedonia. Its possible this was a delayed reaction after tapering effexor and just started noticing it while on Remeron. Perhaps your body got used to the strength of effexor on norepinephrine and dopamine and Remeron isn't boosting them enough. 15mgs really isn't even a dose that would touch depression or anxiety, but would just make one sleepy. I have a friend who takes it for really bad depression and he takes 45mgs.
Personally I'm very tired of all this. I don't wanna have to try every SSRI, SNRI, what have you before I find something that works. I'm really gonna push to try to get a prodopaminergic drug, but my doc is reluctant to prescribe.Its ashame what these meds can do. I wouldn't even be trying another one if I hadn't discovered that for me, exercise, diet, meditation, chinese medicine, etc does nothing for anhedonia or my cognition. Its like a lobotomy with chemicals.
How long were you taking effexor and was it helping at all?
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