Posted by SLS on October 16, 2010, at 6:31:41
In reply to Re: Effexor: is it worth it?, posted by bleauberry on October 16, 2010, at 5:28:22
> Statistically speaking, effexor has no more of a chance of getting you well than anything else.
http://www.biopsychiatry.com/veneffex.html
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/178/3/234
There are more.
Venlafaxine is not a perfect drug, of course, but studies have indicated that it will get more people well than SSRIs, and that the quality of response is greater. Studies are not perfect either. I would want to do more research before guaranteeing somebody that all antidepressants are therapeutically equivalent.
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but in how hard the climb.The measure of success lies only in how high one feels he must
climb to get there.
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