Posted by Onestone on January 20, 2009, at 8:56:17
In reply to Re: Venlafaxine. :-((((, posted by Neal on January 19, 2009, at 20:33:43
> Phillipa's right. Sometimes cocktails do work better, but you're still early in your trial of Effexor, 17 days is a short time.
I've stopped it. It was intolerable. It made me stupid, it drained away what feeling I had, it had banished me to the the land of the shades.
Nobody told me that these effects would go away soon.
>Anything almost, is better than crippling depression so don't give up without another plan.
Sorry, have to disagree! Feeling nothing is worse than feeling misery. After all, nothing is what you feel when you're dead (I hope!). Just because things are very bad is no reason why they can't get far, far worse.
Still, I've learnt something - never start on an antidepressant without having a good understanding of why, and what it is supposed to achieve. Venlafaxine suppresses misery, but it doesn't seem to put anything positive in its place.
My plan is something which includes dopamine-reuptake-inhibition. I have to persuade a doctor to prescribe this (or try and get it illicitly).
>Having said that, you may want to do a search (the link is at the top of the page) of Effexor to see what others have said about it. Remember, though, that those with success rarely post, while those with complaints post often.
I've just had a look there, but there's too much stuff there too diffuse for me to focus on anything. Maybe later.
> Some Pdocs are very into "control". Others not as much. There's lots of Pdocs out there. Most will not be a good fit. When I found that one in a hundred - I knew.
I have a healthy sense of autonomy, and because it's about the only psychic thing I have which is healthy I will fight to the death to preserve it.
> I'm not a Pdoc just spinning ideas
Appreciated!
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