Posted by steve3590 on January 14, 2006, at 18:22:41
In reply to help asap - effexor dosages, posted by ace11 on January 14, 2006, at 9:10:08
It would be amazing that in the first week of effexor dosing you would experience that dramatic a reversal of symptoms. My feeling is that you had a placebo effect that waned, then you went back to your normal self. It took a good 5 weeks for me to get any relief with effexor. Around the 5th week I started to feel REALLY GOOD. My sleep returned to normal (after 20 years of insomnia). The really good feeling left and now I just feel normal for the first time in many years. I sleep. Using AD's is nothing but a crap shoot. One may work for you, one may not. You are able to get the effexor without a doc, so play with the dose. Run it up to 225 for a few weeks and see how you feel. That's all the MD's are going to do. If you get no relief titrate it down, use some prozac at the end for the slow taper and try another one. Only you can tell if it works. Psych docs are not doing nothing but magic. They have no more idea than you do what will work.
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