What is Effexor?
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Effexor (venlafaxine) is an antidepressant structurally unrelated to other antidepressnants. It blocks the re-uptake
of Serotonin and Norepinephrine and Dopamine to a lesser extent. Can be very useful in treating depression and anxiety together. One major downfall is that once this medication is discontinued, you will then suffer hellish withdrawl effects for weeks.
"I woke up this morning feeling great like I'm ready to take on the world! My Effexor must be working!"
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Happy pills that kill your happy drive.
All in the name of feeling happy, Effexor took away my ability to orgasm!
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antidepressants, first you get headaches, then you can start feeling like you're not every full meaning you feel like eatting all the time meaning weight gain. Then the pill can also raise your blood pressure. Sometimes you get depressed after taking it for a year. It's also recommended to stay on for a year so if you start and don't have serious problems with it then you're probably going to be stuck with it. O and when you don't take it then you get really bad headaches or just feel like you have a fever the whole day.
I hate taking effexor!
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Medication created by pharmaceutical companies to hook 'depressive' patients. If the medication is stopped, all hell breaks loose in the body's chemistry. Electric shock sensations, fevers, headaches, dizzyness, insomnia and general "kill me now" feelings are common. Get off it while you can!
"I'd love to talk to you but my brain is frying internally, my legs have decided to take a vacation and my bank balance is low, but I feel great on effexor"
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yes, it's an antidepressant. yes, it works; yes, it really does. especially at the highest doses. yes, it works when nearly everything else doesn't work. even the most emo of emo kids will cheer up and stop cutting themselves at 450 mg/day.
the only things more powerful are:
1. ect, where they fry your brain with electricity; it does work; but the downside is that you lose any recollection of the past few months, and you have to keep getting it for it to work
-or-
2. the maois; of course, with the maois, if you drink wine, beer, eat aged cheese, or take any other sort of medication, your blood pressure goes to 300/240 and your head explodes, so they have to keep you in the **happy**place** while they use the maois on you.
downside to effexor:
1. if you're taking a low dose, and you're a man, forget about getting it up easily. on the other hand, at a high enough dose (300-450 mg), the problems actually seem to go away.
+and+
2. it has the absolute worst withdrawal of any antidepressant. you feel brainzaps for a few weeks to years, in addition, you're woozy and f'ed up. you're an addict, or you're miserable.
conclusion:
it's the bomb in the war on depression. like THE BOMB. the big one. the one with a big red button. it will fuck your depression over. just remember that it comes with fallout. you'll probably be taking those pills for the next 50 years or so.
is it worth it? maybe. if nearly everything else doesn't work.
you can take the blue pill, and go back to the matrix, or take the red pill, and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
but don't say i didn't warn you.
omg i only have one day left of effexor! (call pdoc frantically: NEED REFILL NEED REFILL!)
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An anti-depressant that goes well with THC and whisky. If you try to get off of it once, and if successful, you'll never get on it again!!!! It's the hardest thing to do, getting off of this stuff. It ain't worth it. The withdrawal will put you in bed for weeks, and not sleeping a wink, and freaking out racing thoughts to entertain you while your up. If you have anxiety, or stress, or depression, fix the whole picture, whether that means getting a new job, or start meditating, or try more thc, or something, but stay away from these designer drugs!!!for real!
Effexor is like a hammer to the head for a sleep remedy.
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The anti-depressant I'm currently on. It doesn't do jack for me, though. Same family as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, etc.
Effexor doesn't work.
