Honesty, this medication made no difference for me. Seems like it only affects those that are affected by the placebo effect.
The most horrible medication I have EVER taken. I do not know how anyone can get through the horrendous side effects. Took first dose yesterday morning and I was sick all day and also today. I'm not taking another dose . When I yawn I feel like I'm going to vomit. Then I shake and my jaw tightens up. Horrible horrible drug. Don't do it.
For the first few weeks I was very very sleepy and numb which went away however they worked amazingly for a while but the physical side effects are awful I am on 112mg and just constant sickness if you miss one dose god I pray for you when you take your next one
I have very treatment resistant manic depression. I feel like I have tried everything under the sun. I also take Lamictal which is amazing.Well I thought this was working until it got worse and worse, which I think was from quitting Lexapro.I quit taking effexor a couple days ago after taking for three months (No withdrawal whatsoever, which obviously means it wasn't working) Quitting my Lexapro was harder than any medication I've ever quit and I have realized how good it actually does work for me. I was at the lowest I've ever been after completely tapering off of Lexapro. I wish all of you the best of luck!
I take 150mg in am and 75 at night. My only issue is the symptoms i have when i miss a dose. Within hours i am scatterbrained light headed and feel like i am going to pass out. It is scarey being physically dependent to a drug.
My experience with Effexor has been pretty good with exception to a sexual side affect. You can’t get hard! That’s my only complaint.
It made my urine go green. My speech became slurred. Like Muhammad Ali in later life. Worst drug I ever had.
Venlafaxine gave me my life back. It’s changed my life for the better. I would recommend to anyone. Only challenge is I feel Emotionally numb but in a strange way it’s not bad as with panic disorder I cannot take anxiety on from others so it is great but it does make me feel emotionally void...however...I’d rather feel like this than suffer without it. I fought for this treatment as in the uk this isn’t first line and it’s definitely worth it.
I have ptsd and autism and I take 375mg venlafaxine as well as 3.5mg risperidone twice daily and 30mg mirtazapine at night together this really helps me it took a while to get me on the right meds but now it seems to be working really well I have tried sertraline and fluoxetine which didn’t work that well for me
i had a mental breakdown in september. i couldn’t sleep. i couldn’t eat. i was having panic attacks every day. uncontrollable crying. and the panic attacks seeped into my sleep which led to insomnia. the psychiatrist i saw prescribed me venlafaxine. started me with a low dose and gradually increased dosage. i’m at the max now which is like 225? i don’t experience anything like i’ve gone through during the time of my mental breakdown. however emotional blunting is real. i can’t cry. i don’t really feel much. i guess it works lol. rather than me feel up or down, i’m very flat. not reactive at all. and i’m a naturally hot person and this medicine makes me sweat and so hot to the point i’m going to die of a heat stroke lol. venlafaxine helped me though. so much.
I have depression and anxiety. I have previously been on mirtazapine but had weight gain so wanted to try a few one. I do not recommend this drug whatsoever. After taking it for the first time I had to visit a&e due to my jaw gurning, pupils being dilated, shaking in my whole body and intense feelings of happiness/disassociation. I was told to come off the drug by a&e doctors but instead my psychiatrist just upped the dosage. This made it worse. I started being woken up every morning at 7am to voice saying “Hello.” I then began to have intrusive thoughts all day long which made my anxiety worse. I had never had OCD symptoms before so this scared me. I began to taper myself off the drug as I felt I wasn’t being listened to by my doctor. As I came off the drug all my symptoms went. I was so relieved but so angry that no one is told about this drug and what it can do. My sister a year later after my bad experience was put on venlafaxine forgetting what it had done to me and she experienced the exact same side effects. This drug needs to be discontinued.
I have been on this drug for 20+ years. It is impossible to wean off of, causing severe, severe vertigo. I remember being told they were not addictive, yet I am now reading that to get off them, they recommend rehab centers. I would not recommend long term use to anyone!
Sometimes I forget what hate is than I remember Effexor exists. I geniunely cannot explain to you how horrible skipping a single dose of effexor is. I dont think an anti depressant could possibly work well enough to make up for these horrible withdraws.
This Drug gave me my life back ??
This drug is horrible. It's the worst antidepressants I have ever had. I wish they never put me on it. I was on 75mg and was ok. But they upped my dose to 150mg and everything went south. I makes your anxiety 100 times worse. Makes everything worse. I had also blacked out. Do not touch this drug
The only way I would describe this stuff is "utter garbage". It did nothing for my overall mood, but it did plenty to make life more difficult. Problem is, once you're on it, you are NOT getting off of it without a fight. If you miss a dose, or even lower your dose, game on. Enjoy days of head zaps, nausea, shaking, irritability, depression, uncontrollable tiredness. Basically being a zombie minus the desire to eat people. Had I known what I know now and been through what I've been through now, I would have tossed the first box in the trash where it belongs.
Beginning doses made me really nauseous but after a week that went away. I upped my dose by 37.5mg every 7 days until reaching 225mg. By the 4th week I was having brighter days for the first time in a long time. Though the increase from 150-225mg made me exhausted for awhile. I did get increased suicidal thoughts for two days every time I upped my dose but surrounded myself with people or work to distract. Only other side effect is my period has stopped but I won’t complain about that yet.
两个月后,我的慢性疼痛感觉贝蒂r and my mood lighter. Also, I've lost ten pounds that I needed to lose. My problem is the jitters and nausea all day, even with food. Do these go away? I will switch my dose to PM. As for those who give up on medicine after one dose or call several days of withdrawal unbearable, you need to expect these at the very least when on neuro drugs. You must be willing to work through some tough side effects to get the benefits. This is part of the club.
Right now I'm on Venlafaxine (effexor) I've been on it for about a year. Before that I was on zoloft for 20years. I have no depression just "anxiety and I feel like I want to cry for no reason when I'm not on my pills". My problem right now is I'm on 375mgs and I'm 90% sure my hormones are making the pills not work the week before and the week of my period. Those weeks I feel like when you drink to much coffee just a jittery feeling in my chest. My hearts been checked so I know its anxiety/hormones. This is why I switched to effexor cuz zoloft stopped working. I'm all really at 375mg, so to up it seems like to much. Do u know of any drug I could take with this to tame down the hormones? Or made effexor is the wrong pill for me??????? my hubby thinks I should try nothing and just exercise and eat better, but I know my body and I'm pretty good and I'm sure I need something. ??????? I'm so dreading menopause ??
To some degree the problem with effexor and pristiq they can be absolutely considered genetic warfare agents this has been proven. Several times. look at the old pritiq adds from 2010 look how they marketed the stuff to middle age women . This how america works sometime. I wish i did not know this .
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