Posted by 3djp on March 28, 2006, at 9:44:48
In reply to Re: This is my first time taking anything » Aim, posted by CEK on March 28, 2006, at 9:05:47
> I too was just like you with the Effexor. It took away my irritabiliy and stressors seemed not to bother me so much. Effexor was the first antidepressant I had ever taken. When I got up to 75mg I felt really good but it made me crave food all the time and even though I did not want to gain weight I was like" Hey, I feel so good, lets go get pizza and ice cream!" I'd say heck with it and eat it anyway. It also was hard to think on the Effexor. That was good in the sence that I was not able to dwell on my problems, but bad if I needed to learn how to do something. I also got very nausiated on 75mg and found if I only took 37.5 I would not have the nausia or feel like I wanted to eat all the time. I didn't feel so elated on 37.5, but I got enough effect to be able to handle things better. Four months after starting it we started to go through the process of buying our first house, which was very stressful and I felt like I needed more than the 75mg because the stress and anxiety was getting so bad. My doctor upped the dose to 150mg to see if that would help. On 150mg, I couldn't even remember what I ate for breakfast by lunch time and I gained 5lbs a week for 2months. I could not get satisfied when I ate and never felt full. My doctor started to ween me off the medicine slowly and added Buspar to help when I told her what kind of side effects I was having. This was my experience and everyone is different so you might not go through this. They say that higher doses are suppose to be very helpfull for people that are bad off, but if 37.5 was working for you then I wouldn't change it. I wouldn't want to risk loosing my brain function. If you feel good why tamper with it.
When I started I too was only on 75mg, and yes some of the anxiety were still hanging around. I spoke to my Dr. and he up to only 112.5 mg which seems to helped alot. He didn't want to up it to 150 mg he felt that was too much for my attacks. The anxiety have slowed alot it just picked up alittle these past couple of weeks, I am waiting to hear from a job interview I did a few weeks ago. But all in all I feel pretty good.
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