Posted by 4WD on June 30, 2005, at 22:10:30
In reply to Re: side effects to effexor, posted by Jdresa on June 30, 2005, at 12:33:56
> Hi,
> On my third week now. Im still at 75mg. I seem to have a lot of the pre listed side effects as well. The dry mouth has been awful espeacily being a smoker. The constant feeling of needing to urinate was deffinetly anoying. I even took meds for a bladder infection before I knew it was just a side effect. I also feel the constant twitch of my feet & legs. The two worst problems I've had though were the insomnia & and not being able to ejaculate at all. I want to feel better but I also want to sleep and be able to enjoy the sex. The insomnia was taken care of by the risperdal they perscribed me. That knocks me out cold. I have no dreams, no thoughts, no nothing now when I sleep. What I really want to know though is, if the problem with ejaculating subsides. This is perticulary difficult because My Wife and I are both on effexor. She is having similar problems but has a much better success rate than I have had. Also I wanted to know if anyone here is Bi-polar and taking this drug. From what I've read it doesn't seem like a good drug for that & that was what my wife was perscribed it for. Im lucky enough to just be irritated with everyone I don't know and not wanting any of them to interact with me. Depression and Anxiety are just so fun. No wait, not fun but certinatly make things interesting.
Hi. For me, the sexual side effects did lessen with time but never went completely away. The dry mouth lessened with time also but never went away. The restless legs thing did eventually go away completely except for very occasionally.Effexor never caused me insomnia. In fact it relieved the insomnia I had been having on Prozac. It took a couple of weeks to do that, though.
Good luck.
Marsha
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