Posted by owensmar on August 25, 2004, at 23:16:22
In reply to Re: To Scott, posted by SLS on August 25, 2004, at 20:47:48
Scott,
Thanks for the input. Effexor brings me from severe clinical depression (horror, despair, suicidal ideation, chronic weeping and crippling anxiety) up to being able to function most days. I remain apathetic, lethargic, anhedonic - make that severely anhedonic- and emotionally blunted.
Side effects = no libido, mild anorgasmia, dry mouth, inability to cry (even when I desperately need to)and the one I hate most - tinnitus. What scares me about the tinnitus is that the last time I d/c'd the Effexor, the tinnitus didn't completely go away like it had in the past. I'm afraid I'm doing irreversible damage by continuing to take it but the side effects from the others I've tried have been intolerable instead of just unpleasant.
So I always end up going back to Effexor. Lesser of the evils, you know? I have high hopes for Cymbalta when I see my new p-doc next Thursday.
Here's hoping that by then, your Cymbalta will have kicked in and you'll be out organizing a community softball league or something.
Marsha
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