Posted by teetee on July 22, 2005, at 14:08:53
In reply to Re: Anyone had success on Effexor XR? » jp, posted by teetee on July 22, 2005, at 13:56:57
I made it!
I have been on Effexor for ten years and it changed my life. Before taking Effexor I could not take a single thought and work it through, I ruminated on situations over and over...I was raising three kid's and it felt like I was barely hanging on. After starting the medicine...One week later it was as if the volume had been turned down on the world...I had never experienced this feeling, I was scare it would go away but it hasn't. I still feel things but not to such extremes. Effexor enabled me to take thoughts in counseling and begin to deal with them one by one. I am now a very different person and I thank God daily for Effexor. Depite the stigmas that can prevail in religion and are deeply rooted in cultures, I am an advocate for medicines because I am living proof of the success they can provide along with hard work. I now work in the Legal field and am much more at peace. Continue taking your medicine despite the days when it seems a burden or you begin to believe that "Hey I don't need this anymore" If you do go off go veryyyyyyyyyyyy...slowly. And if your brain is not wired perfectly thank God there is something that helps...ps no side effects for me.
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