Posted by winter on June 21, 2002, at 18:25:02
In reply to Effexor, can I alternate?, posted by Denise528 on June 18, 2002, at 15:06:57
I took Effexor for about a year and half I started at 100mg and the highest was 350 mgs. I know that for me at first it was pretty lousy but I just waited then it felt like nothing. Once it began feeling like nothing however I found out that if I missed a dose I got so sick I couldn't even move. I would have a terrible migraine, felt like my body was dissconneted from my mind by about five feet, too nausues(I cannot spell that word!) to think, cramps all over my body. I would just lay in bed and pray to sleep. I I tried to walk I would walk into things and sometimes fall over. The only thing that would make me better was taking a dose of effexor as soon as I could. Then the next day with next dose I would feel okay again. With a remainder headache. I went through the worst withdrawal getting off of the effexor I was so sick for six weeks. I felt like I was going to die.
Meds effect everyone differntly. Wait to see if it works wait at least 6 weeks. Listen to your gut instict. I wouldn't skip pills not based on my experience but because you are messing with the levels of chemicals in your brain when you do that. If you are depressed and need meds, the chemicals already might be unbalanced. Skipping pills isn't letting the medicine do what it needs to do, and who knows you could make things worse. Mon-thur your body expects something then fri it doesn't get it who knows how it is going to react? We just dont know enough to mess around like that.
This is just my opinion.
Winter
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