Posted by zinya on July 23, 2003, at 11:35:23
In reply to Re: Effexor...p.s. » Daphnis, posted by mercedes on July 23, 2003, at 11:13:24
mercedes, Daphnis, and all..
mercedes, you crack me up!! your "Self..." talk and borrowing toes ;))
plus i do relate. And my beer now sits in my fridge too, undrunk for ages. Last time i had one - just before starting Effexor - it had too weird an effect on me anyway - part of what made me realize my biochemistry had gone haywire and part of what made me realize it was time to try Effexor.
Twice, i've gone to dinner with friends and had one sip of their drink and that was all i wanted. I hadn't thought about it, but now that you mention, i think my 'taste' for drinking has diminished too. Or when it pops up, it also goes away rather easily.
I want to at to Daphnis too (welcome!) that i also am so sensitive to such drugs that i'm the one here who took it super slowly... I split the 37.5 in half and started at 19 for 2 wks, then 37.5, then 56, then 75, then 100 -- taking 2 months until just last night i finally took a 150. I've had some side effects at each level but they've been manageable.
I totally agree with mercedes' advice to you. I would add that i do think even if you're going to take only part of a capsule, you need to be consistent or you won't know and you'll possibly have MORE ups and downs as your body goes in and out of adjusting. If you read the posts about dosage levels i've written in the past week with mercedes and noa, you'll see some of what i've learned now too about an additional problem i hadn't thought of -- assuming you have the XR (time release) capsules rather than the regular ones.
hugs to you both,
zinya
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