Effexor Anyone?? - Anxiety Message Board

cocohoney · 03-16-2004, 06:28 AM

Hello everyone:

Anyone here ever been on Effexor? Tell me what you think about it and what kind of side effects you had.....thanks!!!

hry33 · 03-16-2004, 10:35 AM

it had no effect on me but it often helps for stress and anxiety, its a different type of antidepressant to prozac and can be tried if prozac doesnt work

pixiedust71 · 03-16-2004, 05:01 PM

i was on effexor xr 75mg and it was real good for me. the side effects it had on me was it made my head and chest feel as if they were on fire. that eventually went away. i've tried several other antidepressants and effexor was the only one i liked. hope it helps.

BlueBee · 03-18-2004, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by cocohoney

Hello everyone:

Anyone here ever been on Effexor? Tell me what you think about it and what kind of side effects you had.....thanks!!!

cocohoney,
I've been on effexor about 3 months. I started out on 75mg day, after a month it wasn't working so my doc raised the dose to 150mg. It is effexor xr(time released). I feel some difference. I notice that I speak my mind, which is something I never really did before. As for the anxiety, I still feel anxious, but some of the depression is gone. I didn't really have any side effects with it, but sometimes I have trouble sleeping, not every nite.
I think I need to have my dose raised. I need help mostly with serious anxiety.
Don't let anything I've said stop you from trying something that will help you, medicine works differently for everyone.

lori j · 03-19-2004, 03:51 AM

It made my heart race all the time & made me very hyper, I am hyper anyway, so I need a med that kind of calms me, like I told my pdoc, I'd rather be dopey from the med than hyper with my heart racing.