Posted by carsan01 on January 27, 2003, at 13:31:03
In reply to Re: EFFEXOR - The good, the bad and the ugly, posted by Scot_lass2003 on January 27, 2003, at 13:20:30
Very curious........
I am currently on Effexor XR, 75mg per day.
I have endometrosis...which i take lupron depot..it has really helped me a lot. One of the side effects that lupron depot causes are hot flashes...because of this, my doctor has prescibed Effexor XR...i started off taking 3.75mg for about a week and then taking 75mg. I have been on it now about a month...i did notice a difference right away as the prior medication that i was taking for the lupron depot side effects was norethin...a.k.a. Aygestin. It definitely adds to my mood for the better. But when i first started taking it in the morning...it would wake me up at night....like 4:30am...and i would not be able to go back to sleep......so then my doctor said to take at night, right before i go to bed, well that worked for a few days....now i take it around 3pm in the afternoon...it seems to be working..well...it does really wake me and if it does it's around 2:30 am...only for like a minute or too. Oh..when i took at morning times...it got me very gittery...like my metabolism was going a mile a minute. But....i get alot of headaches, i am starting to get more hot-flashes now. Needless to say i am very frustrated...i know that i need to get some answers.....i am 29...obviously the hotflashes are brought on by lupron and not normal, the headaches were like when i took aygestin...but worse...does anyone out there have any ideas.....or if Effexor xr...mixes bad with other medications..appreciate the advise!!! :0)
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