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 |
| 1 | depression/anxiety | Withdrawal from this drug is horrific. It's been compared to heroin withdrawal. Severe sweats, chills, nausea, electrical shocks in the brain, indigestion, to name some. Oh. .. and my blood pressure shot through the roof for a few days. I'm on week four without and my brain is still trying to recalibrate itself. Not sure how long it's going to take to be better. Hopefully soon. The worst of the withdrawal is gone. My moods are up and down which is normal. Hopefully they'll stabilize soon as well. Good luck to everyone trying to get off this drug. Hang in there. It WILL get better. | This drug was a miracle for me. It did what it was suppose to. But trying to get off it is pure hell. | F | 51 | 10 years 150 | 7/14/2016 | 4 | ADD, depression, anxiety | exessive sweating when sporting, sleep interruption | My diagnosis was ADD with depression and anxiety, my main complaint was feelings of chronic fatigue. Having tried many drugs (stimulants, citalopram, escitalopram, Wellbutrin, sertraline and even Parnate), psychiatrists wanted to give up medication therapy. After much insistence the psychiatrist finally agreed to prescribe venlafaxine. And with success, finally an antidepressant that helped! Less tension, less social anxiety, less often sick and almost no suicidal thoughts. Especially in combination with sporting, I feel much better. Side effects are excessive sweating when sporting and every night I wake up halfway. I now take 112.5 mg (75 + 37.5 mg), if I take a higher dose I feel very sleepy. I took venlafaxine twice previously and when I felt better for a while, I quit. Reducing gradually went fine without any severe withdrawal. For tapering I used venlafaxine of the brand Bluefish (available here in Europe). The capsules do not consist of granules but of tablets with each 12.5 mg. Every week I took one tablet less and I didn’t experienced any severe withdrawal. Only at the end a bit of the common “electric shocks”, but I didn’t find it very disruptive, more like you had a glass of wine. | M | 35 | 4 months 112.5 1X day | 6/20/2016 | 1 | migraine prevention | This medication cut my migraine episodes down. However, every afternoon I would suddenly become extremely fatigued and get a tension headache. I gained 10 pounds, was always fidgeting and biting my fingers, and made the most impulsive decisions.My thinking was very relaxed...easy and breezy. I actually quit a job with good compensation and benefits.I got married to an individual that I would never of considered . I did not even want to get married previously. This medication put me in a fog. It took a month of withdrawl . I am now attempting to resolve all the issues and rebuild . DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. I PREFER TO SUFFER A MIGRAINE SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK . THE CONSEQUENCES ARE NOT WORTH IT!! | F | 47 | 3 months 37.5 1X day | 6/20/2016 | 5 | Depression/Social phobia/Pain | None, because I take my dose everyday at the same time in the morning and that I'm a responsible person. | Very useful for chronic pain and social phobia. Before Effexor XR, I was avoiding social situations and I was so nervous in public. It also helps my depression and anxiety but if I increase my dose above 150 mg, it has the opposite effect and I become wired and emotionless. It's more effective than SSRIs beside Prozac. I tried Zoloft, Celexa, Paxil, Lexapro, and I felt like a lethargic zombie. | M | 37 | 3 years 150 1X day | 6/12/2016 | 1 | as an antidepressant | i am crawling out of my skin!!!! itching!!!hot and cold, chills,flu like symptoms!!!halucinations!!! vertigo!!!migranes!!! euphoric feeling in an out ,paranoia,sleepy but insomnia!!!sore muscles..my face and neck and brain feel like shocks of electricity in my nervous system...missed dose for four days craving more effexor...shows up as "lsd" on my u.a.'s...ive never tried lsd but could only imagine with what im going through right now...im begging God to please intervene and heal me and also seeking medical help... | F | 34 | 2 months 150mg | 5/20/2016 | 5 | Anxiety | Initially only - dry mouth, felt a bit lightheaded | Makes me feel normal and clear headed. Extremely satisfied | F | 33 | 1 years 75MG 1X day | 4/20/2016 | 3 | Hemiplegic migraine | Absolutely shattered! | F | 21 | 3 days 75mg | 4/11/2016 | 3 | mild depression, anxiety and fibrom | Erectile dysfunction, delayed ejaculation, abnormal dreams, can't stay asleep,forgetting to eat, extreme nausea, headaches and reoccurence of ocular migraines. | Intially worked great for pain. Still works for the other two. Thought most side effects would be gone. Instead most seem to be getting worse. | M | 60 | 3 months 300 mg | 4/8/2016 | 1 | Depression | Restlessness, anxiety, persistent thoughts of death and suicide. | The withdrawal symptoms were unbearable. This drug should not be given to anyone. | F | 41 | 3 years 150mg | 3/2/2016 | 1 | Chronic ptsd depression anxiety | It was working until i start having rash hair loss tooth 32 of them need to be extracted black heads blisters | I don't know for a fact that it's from meds they still try to figure it out, but I read the article. | M | 43 | 5 days 225 | 2/17/2016 | 1 | Depression, anxiety | Beautiful teeth destroyed in only 6 months - gums had huge recession,teeth became loose, cracked and moved in the wrong direction, skin became terrible after having normal skin, new ugly bumps and age spots appeared daily, blackeeads and whiteheads all over face, terrible ringing in my ears, sounds like sprinklers in my head, terrible dry eyes,red and cannot wear contacts, terrible constipation, major hair loss, still depressed, so totally useless. | This drug should be against the law to prescribe - psychiatrists say nothing about side effects or the horror of withdrawal - NEVER TAKE THIS DRUG!!! | F | 55 | 6 months 225 1X day | 2/15/2016 | 1 | Depression, extreme anxiety | If I could go back, I would have never taken this drug. At first it was okay because I didn't feel as anxious as I usually did. Eventually, I began to have hand shakes and once in a while my body feels out of sync. I no have problems with anemia because I am always bleeding.Dr's have not suggested effexor as the culprit, but it is the only medicine I take and it will not go away. I just keep bleeding and Noone knows why. After attempting to wean off of this medicine it feels like you are going to die. It does give you flu like symptoms and they last so long. The worst part is that I began to gain a lot of weight once I went without medicine for two weeks. I am the biggest I have ever been. I will give the weaning another try, but with my job and kids I am scared to. I get so irritable and aggressive when I don't take it. I need to wait for the perfect timing. | F | 32 | 6 years 150 mg | 2/1/2016 | 4 | Major Recurring Depression | If not taken early in the morning, I can have sleep problems. When I first began taking Effexor, I had a racing heart but after a few months that subsided.I had been on several other anti-depressants before Effexor and they never helped at all. I really like this medication because it had minor side-effects and it actually worked, for me. | F | 60 | 10 years 150 1X day | 1/19/2016 | 1 | Depression | Dry mouth, insomnia, nausea, tremor, constant brainzaps, sweating, more suicidal than usually, easily irritated, changes in personality, headache, sleep paralysis and so much more | When my doctor prescribed Effexor to me, he said that there weren't a lot of side effects. He was so wrong. It was the worst six months I have ever been through. I felt like I couldn't control my own body, and the constant brainzaps almost drove me crazy. The worst part was if I missed a dose, or took it later than usual, I would throw up the whole next day,and the tremor in my hands made it hard to do basically anything. After a while on Effexor, I started worry about the fact that I was way more suicidal than usual. My mom told me that she was terrified every morning to go into my room, in fear of that I had hurt myself. Quitting Effexor was hell. Out of nowhere I would start crying like crazy, hyperventilate, and even pass out. It took almost 3 months to get off of it. I warn as many people as I can about this drug. After quitting I started taking Wellbutrin, and it changed my life. Please don't poison yourself with Effexor. | F | 19 | 6 months 300 mg | 1/19/2016 | 3 | Depression, GAD, Panic Disorder | EXTREMELY dry mouth, bad constipation, irritability, loss of sex drive , withdrawal side effects. | This was the most effective med for depression that I've taken... it stopped my suicidal/self harming urges as long as I didn't have a reason to feel suicidal. However, the constipation and dry mouth became too much and it wasn't helping my anxiety at all, so I stopped it. I had the withdrawal side effects (brain zaps, pins and needles, dizziness, stomach flu like symptoms, irritability, increased anxiety/depression) 5 days after I stopped taking it. They were/are pretty brutal, but this is my first time not being on anti depressants for SIX YEARS, so that might be part of the issue. That and buspar is making it worse. | F | 20 | 4 months 37.5 MG 1X day | 12/27/2015 | 5 | clinical depression/general anxiety | I have never had any negative side effects while taking Effexor. STOPPING it is kind of painful, especially if you do it cold turkey instead of weaning off of it. You get weird electrical like zaps all over and feel kind of goofy. | This medication saved my life. I've had to stop taking it a couple of times due to insurance issues but I would never do it voluntarily. When I stop taking it, not only do I have to go through the withdrawal, which is not fun, but my depression and anxiety increase 10-fold. | F | 55 | 10 years 225mg 1X day | 12/23/2015 | 1 | Depression | This drug is TOXIC. STAY WAY. I took it for depression and it worked well. HOWEVER. The withdrawals are horrendous. Brain zaps like electric shocks, severe aggression and irritability, flu like symptoms, and at times self harm as the aggression would turn inward. This drug should be banned from the PBS. I am still suffering withdrawals after a month, although the physical symptoms have almost gone, I now feel depressed but I wonder if it's from the horrendous physical withdrawals. I just hope it hasn't caused me permanent brain damage. | In my experience over 30 years of taking various anti-depressants SSRI's are toxic. Doctors are always praising their glory as they say there is less side effects. But this is not true unless your happy having insomnia every night and shoving more Valium into your system in order to go to sleep and this results in having to take more and more since lower doses no longer work. If you want a crappy sex life hence contributing to additional problems in your relationships go ahead. Never again!! Yes the old tricyclics also have side effects such as dry mouth and slight weight gain but at least you sleep and your relationship is in tact. Never will I take SSR's again! 😡 | F | 56 | 12 months 35mg 1X day | 11/25/2015 | 5 | Chronic migraine | In the beginning heightened anxiety, stomach upset, drowsiness | This drug saved my life! For 9 months I had daily, constant migraine activity (lightheadedness, head pressure, felt like the floor would drop sometimes, visual disturbances). I was diagnosed with migraine by a neurologist and he prescribed this medication. I started "low and slow" because I was petrified from the reviews I read. After 2 or 3 weeks I started noticing improvement. God I'm so thankful for this drug!!! Been taking it for about 1.5 years. Pretty much brought me back to normal after about 6-7 months. | F | 42 | 1.5 years 75 1X day | 11/21/2015 | 1 | Depression | Please do not take this drug, I started taking it for depression and after just 5 days my hair has fallen out at the front I now have a huge bald patch. It should be banned. One of the side effects is Alopecia. I have thick long dark hair and am devastated. | Horrible drug. I have since read a lot and found many people experiencing hair loss, some now are having to wear hair pieces or wigs. | F | 41 | 5 days | 11/21/2015 | 3 | Memory loss low sex drive | Hate the feeling if iv mist a dose head feels strange | F | 10 years | 11/14/2015 |