EFFEXOR Reviews (VENLAFAXINE HYDROCHLORIDE)

Average Rating: 3.0 (925 Ratings)

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EFFEXOR  (VENLAFAXINE HYDROCHLORIDE):  Venlafaxine is used to treat depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and social anxiety disorder (social phobia). It may improve your mood and energy level and may help restore your interest in daily living. It may also decrease fear, anxiety, unwanted thoughts, and the number of panic attacks. Venlafaxine is known as a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI). It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (serotonin and norepinephrine) in the brain.   FDA Approval Date: 1993-12-28 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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Key to Ratings: 1=LOW (I would not recommend taking this medicine.)
5=HIGH (this medicine cured me or helped me a great deal.)

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RATING  REASONSIDE EFFECTS FOR EFFEXORCOMMENTSSEXAGEDURATION/
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 5  depression & anxiety not as hungry works great for me F 3 years
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3/24/2013
 5   Oy vey - previous post should say 75 MG !! Can you imagine 75G??
4/14/2006
 5  
11/14/2006
 5   previous post should say 5 months, not 5 days 5 months
7/26/2005
 5   My post should say that I have been taking it for 4 years F
10/7/2006
 4  depression, anxiety, panic dry mouth, erection and orgasm problems, numbness and tingling in the toes and hands, only sleep 3 hours a night and that is with taking ambien or lunesta, tremors, headache, ringing in the ears, sweats and chills, night sweats, acne breakouts, increased heart rate(100bpm at rest) and high blood pressure(138/98 at rest). effexor worked for my depression when i got to 150mg a day. side effects have been horrific. now trying to wean off with augmenting of prozac. hear prozac is just as hard to get off with alot of the same side effects. not a happy camper except that i don't want to become "worm bait" anymore. if anyone was really told about the side effects and withdrawl problems of this drug they would never start taking effexor. good luck to all of you and hopefully god will help me through this. M 2 months
7/9/2006
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 4  Recurrent depression difficulty with erections and ejaculating; "driven" hypomanic feeling. Effexor was a godsend for the 8 weeks it worked, because I had about given up. I came on to it like a ton of bricks, which was fun but eventually trying to my friends who thought they were dealing with the second coming of Jonathan Winters. Driven and hypomanic, but very happy guy for 8 weeks. That's why a give it a 4 despite the short duration. M 2 months
3/24/2006
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 3  Anxiety Fatigue and Depression Definitely I've lost my sex drive but that was going downhill with my depression before I started taking Effexor. I have a comfortable content feeling where ever I go. No matter what I'm doing i find no reason to socialize or do anything drastic because I am too relaxed to care. Most times it's nice, but sometimes it's very annoying especially when no one around you knows your taking the drug so they don't understand that it's not that I dont care. Rather it's that the drug is makes me zone out. I have mixed feelings about Effexor because it helped me feel less depressed but at the same time I know I'm missing out on a lot of the world that others are experiencing. It's like I'm in a complete daze 24 7 and in order to break that daze I have to do some drastic things like smoke pot or try to relax to the max by listening to enya in bed trying to stir up any emotions I can get. But in the end it did it's duty and I'm thankful for that. M 4 months
3/7/2007
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5/17/2003
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1/21/2005
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11/13/2004
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7/26/2002
 1  depression, ADHD, anxiety suicidal thoughts did nothing but worsen my depression M 14 days
11/3/2003
 1  chronic depression The effectiveness of this drug drops off precipitously. Then when you try to go off it, you discover it is highly ADDICTIVE, with withdrawal effects that rival those of some street drugs. Already a person who tends to be underweight, it caused me to lose nearly 18 pounds, and devastated my immune system. Wyeth-Ayerst, the maker of Effexor, has suppressed or deliberately misinterpreted the test data for this drug. Already 5 years ago British medical journals warned about the danger of DEATH from overdose. Now for that reason a public warning has been issued in British Columbia, Canada. It is UNSAFE at any dose! M 18 months
2/28/2007
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 1  depression headaches, heart rate increases, sweating, high blood pressure i developed high blood pressure on effexor. how long does it take for the meds to leave the body? 3 weeks
5/17/2005
 1  Bipolar manic depressant When I first 🌟 taking effexor I was in a Florida prison they did not say it was an addictive medication then I was transferred back to county to clear up some loose ends immediately I started having withdrawals and bad night sweats diarrhea headaches throwing just to name a few I rode it out and never took it again ask plenty of questions before taking this medication 100 days
9/11/2019
 5  Depression None, no weight gain or loss, no loss of sexual desire, no particular physical problems. I took it in conjuction with other medications: Lamictal (mood stabilizer) and Adderal (adult ADD), with only a weight loss (not unhealthy), which was due to the Adderal. The combination was one that worked for me extremely well, and my family and friends also saw a very positive change in my behavior, as well as in my outlook on life. F 5 3 years
2/12/2007
 5  Depression F 14 2 days
150mg
7/9/2015
 1  major depression nausea, dizziness, headache, constant sleepiness at the beginning- those went away after a few weeks, but sexual side effects continued- if i ever missed a dose i would get dizzy and sick and i had electric shocks within a day- also messed up my concentration pretty badly, and i was pretty hyper this drug seemed to work for about two weeks, but then completely stopped- quitting was a nightmare, it's been four months and i've finally stopped feeling side effects- since effexor and lexapro after that, i've been tentatively diagnosed with bipolar 2, except that it might have been caused by the effexor- i wouldn't recommend effexor to anybody F 15 2.5 months
6/27/2004
 5  depression restlesness, jitteriness, more energy, weight loss, loss of concentration, temporary insomnia this worked for me immediatley. Within a couple hours of taking my first 150mg dose, i felt jittery, truly happy, peaceful, and energetic. i havent felt this way in years, before effexor i felt socially withdrawn, suicidal at times, and i always felt alone and hopeless. i finally feel like i can go out and solve my problems and face the world head on!ive been of effexor for a week and i continue to feel wonderful! note: im very thin, im 16, and i dont eat much (modeling)so the effexor probably got in my system a little too easily so it worked right away...my doc said that it takes a full week usually to really start working, so maybe i'll be feeling even better eventually! good luck!! F 16 1 weeks
11/10/2006
  

EFFEXOR  (VENLAFAXINE HYDROCHLORIDE):  Venlafaxine is used to treat depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and social anxiety disorder (social phobia). It may improve your mood and energy level and may help restore your interest in daily living. It may also decrease fear, anxiety, unwanted thoughts, and the number of panic attacks. Venlafaxine is known as a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI). It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances (serotonin and norepinephrine) in the brain.   FDA Approval Date: 1993-12-28 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

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