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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 428220" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Whatever you do decide to take, avoid effexor. I know it helps some people, but for MANY the side effects and withdrawal are enough to make you crazy. It caused social phobia in me and was pushing me into agoraphobia in a major way. Something I had NEVER had even a hint of. If I was even thirty minutes late taking a dose I would get brain shocks/shivers (feeling like you just licked a battery but in your brain and like you turn your head and your brain keeps turning a bit when you stop. You have to have it to understand what I am talking about but it is very very common with effexor.) There were other problems also. Mostly I felt horrible and afraid of everything. It didn't happen until they raised the dose the first time.</p><p></p><p>Stopping taking it was the worst I have gone through with almost any medication. Tapering it by the doctor's schedule was WAY too fast. MONTHS too fast. She wanted me to be totally off of it before I tried something else and that was a HUGE mistake. That is where I learned that prozac is awesome for dealing with withdrawal from these medications. Prozac has the longest half life of the a/d medications and if you take a small dose (20 mg) every week it makes a HUGE difference in withdrawal symptoms. It stays in your body and stops withdrawal but you don't have to take it daily or taper off. Effexor has one of the shortest half lifes of any medication (amt of time for half the medication to leave your body) so that is why withdrawal kicks in so fast.</p><p></p><p>If you go from one a/d like effexor to another in that class, tapering one down and the other up, it can stop/prevent a lot of withdrawal, so that is what we did when Wiz was taking it. He took it before I did and I had NO idea what it was diong to him. He became totally suicidal during withdrawal - ended up in a psychiatric hospital where a nurse told me it was likely due to the effexor. They put him on luvox and he did a ton better.</p><p></p><p>As for weight gain, you may want to consider topamax. It is often used with an antidepressant to treat resistant depression. It will usually help you lose weight also. I do the best on prozac though I may try luvox soon as prozac is hurting my stomach. Luvox is very similar to prozac but supposedly a bit stronger.</p><p></p><p>I am sorry you are struggling so with depression.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 428220, member: 1233"] Whatever you do decide to take, avoid effexor. I know it helps some people, but for MANY the side effects and withdrawal are enough to make you crazy. It caused social phobia in me and was pushing me into agoraphobia in a major way. Something I had NEVER had even a hint of. If I was even thirty minutes late taking a dose I would get brain shocks/shivers (feeling like you just licked a battery but in your brain and like you turn your head and your brain keeps turning a bit when you stop. You have to have it to understand what I am talking about but it is very very common with effexor.) There were other problems also. Mostly I felt horrible and afraid of everything. It didn't happen until they raised the dose the first time. Stopping taking it was the worst I have gone through with almost any medication. Tapering it by the doctor's schedule was WAY too fast. MONTHS too fast. She wanted me to be totally off of it before I tried something else and that was a HUGE mistake. That is where I learned that prozac is awesome for dealing with withdrawal from these medications. Prozac has the longest half life of the a/d medications and if you take a small dose (20 mg) every week it makes a HUGE difference in withdrawal symptoms. It stays in your body and stops withdrawal but you don't have to take it daily or taper off. Effexor has one of the shortest half lifes of any medication (amt of time for half the medication to leave your body) so that is why withdrawal kicks in so fast. If you go from one a/d like effexor to another in that class, tapering one down and the other up, it can stop/prevent a lot of withdrawal, so that is what we did when Wiz was taking it. He took it before I did and I had NO idea what it was diong to him. He became totally suicidal during withdrawal - ended up in a psychiatric hospital where a nurse told me it was likely due to the effexor. They put him on luvox and he did a ton better. As for weight gain, you may want to consider topamax. It is often used with an antidepressant to treat resistant depression. It will usually help you lose weight also. I do the best on prozac though I may try luvox soon as prozac is hurting my stomach. Luvox is very similar to prozac but supposedly a bit stronger. I am sorry you are struggling so with depression. [/QUOTE]
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