Hey everyone,
I just want opinions.
Has anyone here/is anyone here on effexor, what were your side effects like, and if you stopped taking it, how bad was the discontinuation syndrome?
I studied it for a while back when I was doing pharmacology and I know a fair few people who have taken it, and I know people who have piled on the weight, other's who got a bit pudgy, but all say trying to stop taking it was impossible. Some took up to 2 years to completely wean themselves off it.
I've hit a brick wall. My meds aren't working anymore, and we need to find something before my fantasies of jumping out the window at my office job becomes something I can't resist.
But with everything that's messed up in my head, something that makes me gain weight and feel detached (what I've had with other meds) isn't going to improve my mood because the side effects themselves will make me more depressed. And if it doesn't suit me and I can't get off them, well that's just not ideal either.
So has anyone had any experience with it? (I don't have wellbutrin options here either, it can only be approved for prescription here if proven to be used for a smoking cessation treatment).
TIA xxxx




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Prozac I tried and HATED. I slept like 12 hours a night and then had to take naps during the day. I didn't feel like doing anything.

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