Posted by utopizen on October 22, 2002, at 20:09:49
I've been on Effexor XR for a month and a half now, and about to see my doc. I've been on 150mg, with absolutely no side effects at all. I got scary dreams for the first week, that was it.
I got another panic attackish event today, mostly resulting from my adderall 30mg, which I took because, um, dude, it's midterm week. Anyway, I don't get breathing problems or anything like GADs do, I just get noticably anxious to an embarassing degree that makes the people I talk to noticably distrubed by it. ("Freak!" is pronounced through their faces, silently taunting me). So hard it is to realize a problem and not have the control to correct it. This of course makes us anxious, as I don't need to tell the fellow social phobics on this board! =)
It's very, very embarassing, and I don't want to have to face the person I had it with as I talked to her today. Unfortunately I will have to tomorrow.
But since I haven't noticed anything more than the slight headrush now and then when I get up quickly, I'm wondering if 150mg is enough for me? I don't really feel anything, and I suppose it couldn't hurt to go up since I don't have any side effects yet. One person told me on this board, "Oh, Effexor, if you can tolerate it, it'll work for sure" (I'm paraphrasing).
Anyway, I think it's strange 150mg hasn't kicked in yet, you'd think it would. Should I wait another month, or up it now while I still can get caught up in my anxiety-driven race to chill? Wow, I sometimes write profound sentences when I'm on 2800mg single dose of Neurontin... wow.
Wow. anyway, thanks guys. Oh, in case you're wondering, Neurontin took me from "oh no, she's going to tell all her friends how much of a loser I am!" to "Wow, this is a cool sentence."
The word soothing is never more apt for this drug. It's like motherhood in a bottle.
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