EFFEXOR XR Reviews (VENLAFAXINE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.0 (2225 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare EFFEXOR XR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR EFFEXOR XR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Depression and Anxiety | None | Its the best, works so well for me | M | 22 | 3 years 150 1X day | 10/30/2011 | 1 | PMS,PTSD,Mood Disorder,Depression | worse anxiety, loss of compassion, loss of memory permanently,inability to tell right from wrong, mania, insomnia, restless legs, OCD, could not sit still. | Lost ability to know how to cook or clean or organise and still can not 8 yrs later. Had horrible reaction to going off. Electric shocks in head and body with every step I took and every movement. Painful shocks! Lost who I was and put myself in bad situations with people letting them abuse me. Horrible drug for me. I am not the same person and never will be. Severe memory loss.I started doing bad things that were not me before and a few months after taking this med. | F | 38 | 6 months 150 mg 2X day | 10/28/2011 | 2 | Depression / Anxiety | Weight gain, blurry vision, constipation, bizzare dreams, insomnia, loss of sex drive | After being on Zoloft for many years, Dr talked me into changing to help with my anxiety. I wish I never had. It did help with my anxiety, but my depression is back with a vengance. Weight gain and loss of sex drive is enough to depress me anyway. Drs thoughts - go and get some exercise! I am wanting to get off it but I am scared to from hearing all the bad experiences | F | 42 | 5 months 150 1X day | 10/27/2011 | 1 | MDD | Anger, severe depression, crying spells, paranoia spells, hiding spells. | Horrible experience with this med. But everyone is different and reacts differently to meds. With that being said: I had intense anger, depression, anxiety, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, crying spells, and even spells of wanting to hide from the world (most likely because of the sever depression this med gave me). I slept pretty much 20 hours a day. No exaggeration. 20 hours a day. I was in my second year of college. I would go to class, come back and sleep, and sleep, and sleep.....All I did for six months was cry, sleep, get angry, want to die, want to hide. Horrible experience. I am now on cymbalta and absolutely love it. I have been taking this for 3 years now. No horrible side effects, great happiness and fulfillment in my life. Only problem I have with cymbalta, lowers your sex drive (like every single freaking anti-depressant). But it's worth it, to be happy again :) Thanks Cymbalta, DIE EFFEXOR! LOL~ | F | 26 | 6 months 60 MG 1X day | 10/18/2011 | 4 | depression | Dry mouth (first few months); night sweats (first few years); low libido | Effexor has probably saved my life. Effectively wiped out my obsessive thinking, thoughts of suicide, self-loathing, and dried up the tears that would overwhelm me all day long- at work, in the grocery store, etc. One thing it has not really touched is my social anxiety, which is pretty disabling, but at least I am less depressed about it. I have gone off of the drug twice in the 12 years I have used it. The withdrawal symptoms can be intense (mostly dizziness and brain zaps for me) but I found that if I tapered off very slowly they were tolerable. Unfortunately, both times the depression came back and I restarted taking it, and that is where I am now. Wish I didn't have to take it, but glad it's there when I need it. | 42 | 12 years 150 1X day | 10/1/2011 | 1 | Depression | Weight gain/Tremors/Restless leg | Am now down to 37.5mg and it's terrible awful to get off of. Would not recommend to anyone. | F | 67 | 15 years 225mg 1X day | 9/24/2011 | 1 | Bipolar 1 | rapid-cycling, mania | I was prescribed Effexor XR on two separate occasions. Both times I almost immediately switched from depression into rapid-cycling and the second time this developed into a full-blown manic episode that resulted in hospitalisation. Because of this my psychiatrist now says he cannot prescribe antidepressants for me as any antidepressant is likely to cause me to flip into mania. I never had any problems with anti ds (except for them not working!) before taking Effexor. | F | 55 | 6 weeks 300mg 1X day | 9/15/2011 | 3 | depression | I was part of the clinical trial for this drug. I never got to determine whether or not it was effective -- I had such severe night sweats, soaking the bed every night (not related to menopause!), that I had to drop out of the study. It was a double blind study, but there was no doubt that I was taking the drug and not the placebo given the severe side effects. Night sweats were the only problem for me. No other side effects, not even the dry mouth the tricyclic antidepressants had always given me. | F | 55 | 8 weeks 150 mg 1X day | 9/12/2011 | 3 | POTS | I HAVE ONLY BEEN ONE IT FOR 3 DAYS AND SO FAR SO GOOD THE FIRST DAY I WAS REALLY OUT OF IT SO DID NOT TAKE IT FOR 3 DAY AND HAD A HEADACE FOR 2 DAYS SO THAN I WAS FELLY REALLY PANIC SO I HAVE BEEN TAKEING IT 3 DAYS NOW 1ST DAY WAS UP ALL NIGHT AND THE 2ND I GOT SOME SLEEP AND I AM DONT SO FUZZY AS I WAS SO EVERY DAY IT GETS BETTER JUT GIVE IT TIME TO WORK I HATE TAKEING MEDS BUT I THINK I WILL STAY WITH THIS ONE | F | 31 | 3 days 37.5 1X day | 9/11/2011 | 2 | depression | made me angry- and cry, cry, cry, and angry, angry, angry! | The moment I quit taking it, the anger stopped! | F | 42 | 1 weeks 1X day | 9/4/2011 | 5 | Anxiety / Depression | only side effects i go through is if i forget to take the daily dose . go off with the fairies - light & dizzy & cannot concentrate at all & get BAD BAD Withdrawals. | Was second in charge of big motor company for 23 years when i got anxienty / depression . eventually couldn't function etc & ended in a heap . was on & off many different types of drugs & then 2 years later ended up in mental hospital . they took me off everything & started me on EFFEXOR XR. within a month i was starting feeling a lot better & then started working a part time job about 2 years later which i still do today. If it wasn't for Efexor Xr i wouldn't be here today . i have tried many times to slowly come off it with no success. For quality of life & my family i have decided to stay on it . I was in a bad place for about 5 years all up & i never want to go back there. EFFEXOR XR is good shit as far as i am concerned | M | 45 | 5 years 300 1X day | 9/2/2011 | 5 | depression & anxiety | Increased blood pressure, increased sensitivity to heat | I've been on and off anti-depressants since 1995 and this is the only one that has consistently brought great results. I tried going up higher than 300 MG to combat depression, but there was no real payoff with this increase, so I went back to 300 and started a secondary anti-depressant on a lower dose on the side in addition to Effexor. This was after 4 years of being on it. I'm very, very very happy with Effexor, but I will echo two things that have been said here: 1) Eat it with food! Nausea isn't fun. 2) Do not skip your pills or quit this cold turkey. If I miss a day I get edgy, if I miss two days I turn into a monster. Through all the side effects, even having to take a small dose of blood pressure medication, I happily take Effexor XR. It is critical to my well-being and it's the only anti-depression/anxiety med that has given me these results. | F | 33 | 4 years 300 MG 1X day | 9/1/2011 | 5 | grief then because i liked it | low libido,dry mouth, | initially took this for grief,after stopping it i noticed my behavior was more agressive,impatient,negative attitude. told doc i wanted it again. it produces a kindler and gentler me which i prefer. however,if i miss a dose or stop, my evil twin emerges and it is not pretty. can not stop taking it now as my behavior will spiral into a very negative,uncontrolled state. i am afraid to stop taking it. i also tend to procrastinate which i never did before. it is excellent for changing self defeating behavior. | M | 51 | 6 years 300 1X day | 8/30/2011 | 1 | Depression | Where to start? Chronic constipation, aggressive eczma, a spiky feeling like stinging neetles when I got hot, memory loss - could never remember names or big words in coversation; loss of sex drive; verbally aggressive if I missed med or when I tryed 60 mg of drug. | I was told by my physhciatrist this drug was the next big thing and that I had tryed most everything else so I put up with all those side effects for 3 freakn years!! My wife got fed up with my aggressive verbal behaviour on this drug. Then my new GP sayes try Cipramol and then suddenly the adverse effects all but disappear. Im over the moon with Cipramol - the only side effects I now have is same low sex drive. There was also no withdrawals moving between these 2 drugs. | M | 40 | 3 years 40 MG 1X day | 8/22/2011 | 2 | depression | Hospitalized with serotonin syndrome. Suicidal. | F | 56 | 30 days 75 mg 1X day | 8/10/2011 | 4 | At first, Effexor XR | I later switched to Venlafaxine, a generic form of Effexor. The side effects have remained consistant. They include, daily nausea, unless taken with food. Mild sexual side effects, and horrendous withdrawal symptoms, eek! Pretty much everything others have mentioned- vivid/disturbing dreams, brain zaps, mania, emotional instability when you miss a dose or attempt to quit. | The manufacturer understated the side effects and I curse the day they developed this particular SSRI but it works, what can I say. | M | 39 | 10 years 75-150 1X day | 7/20/2011 | 5 | Depression | I haven't experience any side effects. | I tried several anti-depressants before sticking with Effexor XR. One thing I learned real quick was not to miss a dose. I did that twice for a couple of days and ended up in the ER with nausea, pain all over my body and DEEP depression. I wanted to die. I'm grateful for this drug. I have gone through counseling and feel very well. I would like to get off but the withdrawl symptoms stop me. I don't even want to think of the darkness that could take me to. I guess I'll take it forever but that's alright. IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE IF YOU DON'T HAVE INSURANCE! | F | 50 | 20 years 150 mg 1X day | 7/18/2011 | 3 | depression anxiety | long term use effected liver functions | Horrible withdrawal symptoms from drug: extreme anxiety and brain zaps | F | 49 | 2 years 600 1X day | 7/13/2011 | 1 | Depression | Excessive weight gain (30lbs), horrible night sweats, agitation, dizziness, crying all the time, lack of interest in things I used to love to do, decreased sex drive | F | 33 | 3 months 75 MG 1X day | 7/7/2011 | 5 | Major Depressive Disorder/Anxiety | In beginning: Constant yawning, racing heart, weird dreams, dizziness, mania; after a few weeks: NONE :) If I forget to take for a couple days, I do get heart palpitations and bad dizziness but easily cured by taking my missed dose (good reminder!) | Effexor obviously works GREAT for some people and for others it doesn't...for me it has been the best thing EVER! I have no desire to stop this one, although the effectiveness does seem to wane after a few months, and now I am at the highest dose...so I do worry it will stop working, but hoping for the best. I have tried everything and it all works for a while but wanes. So far this has been the best...2nd choice is Prozac FOR ME but everyone is different so its worth a shot! | F | 38 | 1 years 300 mg 1X day | 7/5/2011 |