Posted by Katia on April 23, 2003, at 13:47:02
In reply to Am about to start on Effexor XR after failed trial, posted by Jenne B on April 22, 2003, at 21:49:06
> Hi there folks,
> First of all I'd like to thank all of you for sharing your experiences ! It has been quite insightful for me. I have had a long history of clinical depression. About two years ago I stopped taking serzone because of the complete lack of emotion that I felt. For the last two years life was tolerable but recently i started having the same recognizable feelings, crying a lot, agoraphobia and little interest anything but sleeping. I was back to sqaure one. My dr. prescribed celexa 20mg Which had no effect then upped the doseage to 40mg which appears to be the same except I am having horrific dreams. I have a script for effexor XR waiting to be filled and am very contemplative as to whether I
> should give it a try - What if it doesn't work? Then, having to go through the withdraw? Does anyone feel positive about this drug? Has anyone gone from celexa to effexor Xr and noticed a difference?
> i also wonder if being on such a high dose of serzone 200mg has anything to do with my failure on celexa. Hopes are really down.Hi,
I actually started on ADs for the first time this past summer and started on Celexa. It didn't seem to work for me so I switched to Effexor. it seemed to work for me briefly (I got a taste of normalcy), but those w/drawal effects, mind shivers/electrical jolts started becoming a side effect for me and I slept way too much. I got off Eff. after about 4 months and those side effects got terribly worse. They lessen if you taper slowlllllly.
I have a friend who is on Effexor and has been over a year. She loves it and has not side effects. She almost doesn't believe me when I tell her the stories on this board re: Eff. She's had such good results from it.
I'm not sure if she's in the majority though.After Eff. I took Zoloft for three months, didn't work in fact made me worse. I was a complete zombie. I am actually contemplating (like you) whether I should start on Serzone, I've got a starter pack here. I'm afraid b/c I've had such terrrible experiences with the Eff. w/drawal then the horrible zoloft experience and now the horrible zoloft w/drawal. Were you emotionless the whole time? What were the w/drawals? Did you gain weight?
hope it helps and would appreciate your feed-back on Serzone.
Thanks.
Katia
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