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 | anxiety, panic, dysthymia | became a vegetable, lethargic, unable to do anything, tired all the time | THIS SHOULD BE BANNED. Getting off Effexor XR was awful. Absolutely awful. Hell is a mild word for it. It is a poison that you cannot stop. | F | 58 | 4 days | 8/19/2006 | 1 | paxil had pooped out | Effexor XR is a very ADDICTIVE DRUG that the psychiatrist would not admit is MORE ADDICTIVE AND MORE DANGEROUS THAN Benzodiazepines. It has no worth whatsover for depression, anxiety (made it worse), fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, dysthymia, panic or anything else it is being promoted for. IT IS A WORTHLESS DRUG BEING PROMOTED BY THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY TO STUPID PSYCHIATRISTS WHO HAVE NO CRITICAL THINKING. | Never start it. It is impossible to stop. My idiot female psychiatrist (how did she make it through Medical School and Internship and Residency????? Money? Her father a doctor)would not believe how addictive it was. She only believes what the drug reps tell her. She had no critical thinking and did not pay attention to what patients say (a person may be "crazy" but not stupid. I have my Ph.D. in Biochemistry and she did not believe me..... Also retired University Professor.... | F | 58 | 5 years | 8/19/2006 | 1 | anxiety, panic, dysthymia | became a vegetable, lethargic, unable to do anything, tired all the time | THIS SHOULD BE BANNED. Getting off Effexor XR was awful. Absolutely awful. Hell is a mild word for it. It is a poison that you cannot stop. | F | 58 | 4 days | 8/19/2006 | 1 | menopause-night sweats & hot flush | confusion, nervous tention, depression, insomnia and vivid strange dreams, nausea, headache, shakes,tingling skin and blurred vision this is after only 7 days. This is on 1 per day 75mg efexor 75mg. | My doctor advised that i cut back to 1 every 2 days when i told him of the effects on the 4th day. I did this and now i have made the decision to stop all together as the cure is far worse than the complaint. I was not advised that the drug should be taken with food and there was no warning about alcohol consumption- tho i found out the hard way by having a glass of wine!!! I have just found out that the side effects i am experiencing are all listed on the internet....and in a strange sort of way i am relieved to hear it as I had thought that i was just going mad! My greatest concern now is that i have taken it long enough to have to go through withdrawls??? Surely they cant be worse than the drug itself which has been a pure week of HELL! Can anyone tell me if I will experience withdrawl symptoms after only 7 days on the drug? | F | 48 | 7 days | 8/19/2006 | 3 | depression and anxiety | vivid nightmares, night sweats, loss of libido, other sexual dysfunctions, horrible withdrawel symptons, very little emotions regarding sinificant others, still have sleeping problems but i don't think effexor made it worse.. | i started on 75mg and made my way up to 150. i may have gone too fast though becuase i got numb in my face and hands with tingles that sometimes would move up my arms and shoulders. i didnt think it was the drugs at the time. after i got used to it 150mg was great. I stoped hating myself, and depression subsided. Yet i had vivid nightmares that were really horrible and i started to get night sweats real bad. showering at night became useless. after a while though 150 started to lose its effectiveness and subsequently i got moved up to 225. now i feel like an emotional wall. i am happy though which has never been the case. It comes at a price though; nothing penetrates the surface, i don't care really about anyone for more then a minute. music doesn't sound as good. i still have anxiety; no panic attacks. NO libido, fo anything/anyone. nightmores have subsided. The real problem is the withdrawel. within a few hours of missing a dose i start to feel weird. within 24 its an all out acid t | F | 20 | 2 years | 8/18/2006 | 2 | Depression, chronic | GI problems: nausea, diarrhea and/or frequent bowel movements. Feel like everything I eat goes right through me. Have lost weight. Feel I've lost my mental sharpness, short-term memory loss (but could be age-related, too), slower to process things mentally, feel like my demeanor is flat or depressed mostly. | When I see my psychiatrist for med checks and tell her I still feel depressed and unable to find pleasure in many things I used to, she just wants to keep raising the dose. At 225mg/day now, for past 3mos. No improvement. GI problems worse, feel depressed still. Sex drive good but always has been. I do drink alcohol. | F | 43 | 4 years | 8/17/2006 | 1 | depression | I gained a tremendous amount of weight and my legs/ankles swelled to the point I could not get my shoes on. I also had a bad shortness of breath. My regular MD told me to tell my psychiatrist to take me off effexor immediately as it was causing all the fluid retention-turned out I had an enlarged heart also. Regular MD said doctors give effexor to cancer patients to help them gain weight. I don't think it is weight they gain - it is fluid. Very dangerous. | Effexor made me gain between 40-50# which didn't help my depression. Made me feel worse about myself and my life. | F | 63 | 8 days | 8/17/2006 | 4 | social anxiety and depression | fatigue, prolonged orgasm, memory problems, disorientation, gas, frequent urination, excellent relaxation, calmness, very chilled out | The first day I sweated a lot and thought I was going to catch on fire. The next day I felt manic but still very overheated, especially when outside (I garden a lot). My libido has decreased a lot and have delayed orgasm, but this is getting better. I am only on 37.5mg/day and notice a significant decrease in the drug's effect (I go back to the dr. this week and probably need an increase in dose). The main side effects this entire week are feeling very tired/sleepy/lethargic, bad gas/bloating, increase blood pressure (from 120/80 to now 160 or 180/67, but pulse good), sweating a lot in afternoon, forgetfulness (I just put my daughter in her crib without a diaper on and now have to change her bed linens!), and feeling like in a trance (everything moves slowly around me), some itching. Overall, my muscles feel relaxed for the first time in over 20+ years. This is the first antidepressant/antianxiety that has not "flipped me out" and made me aggressive/worse. I am going t | M | 40 | 8 days | 8/15/2006 | 5 | depression and anxiety | well ive taken this medicine for ten years my sexual drive has come back, i do have hand tremors and night sweats. I take 150 mgs. I was suicidal when i began taken this medicine, it has calmed me and got rid of any such thoughts. | If the medicine is the right one for you, you will know, if it is not, your doctor may need to try others, I got bounced around for 3 years until i finally found the right one which is effexor xr. If you take this at night, before bed, alot of symptoms will go away. | F | 38 | 10 years | 8/14/2006 | 3 | DEPRESSION | I HAD TO TAKE EFFEXOR BECAUSE OF MY DEPRESSION. ME BEING I DUMB THOUGHT I DIDNT NEED THE MEDS ANYMORE AND MY DOCTOR AGREED TO WEEN ME OFF. I DIDNT LIKE THE FEELING. I WAS ON 150 MG. I THEN WENT ON 75MG FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS THEN 37.5MG . BUT THE WHOLE TIME I FELT DIZZY AND IT FELT LIKE I HAD ELECTRICAL SHOCKS GOING THROUGH MY HANDS,ARMS AND HEAD. IT FELT LIKE MY HEAD WAS PULSING. I FELT SICK ALOT TOO, I JUST WANTED TO HUG THE GROUND. WELL I WAS WRONG AND I COULDNT GO OFF THE MEDS . A WEEK AFTER TOTALLY STOPPING, ALL THE SIGNS WERE BACK THAT I NEEDED ON IT .TWO MONTHS LATER I WAS BACK ON EFFEXOR XR. IM TRYING TO FIND AN ALTURNATIVE. ANY IDEAS? IVE TAKEN WELLBUTRIN . I WAS ALLERGIC TO IT AND PROZAC I GOT AMMUNE TO IT.. THANKS FOR LISTENING. | F | 32 | 2 years | 8/14/2006 | 5 | reactive depression due to a trauma | First day I was shakey and had such a dry mouth, disrupted sleep and loss of labido also occured in following weeks. It also forced me to drink lots of water throughout the day but thats a plus. | After a few weeks everything levelled out except the dry mouth and being on Effexor (75mg) once a day has given me an immense sense of function back. I'm also 3 months pregnant and was wondering if any other women have gone through a pregnancy on Effexor? My Dr wants me to stay on the medication the entire pregnancy but I cant help wondering if i'm doing or going to do any damage to the unborn baby so if anyone has any feedback for me dont hesitate to drop me a line. Thanx. | F | 29 | 2 months | 8/12/2006 | 5 | M | 2 years | 8/11/2006 | 3 | Post Partum Depression | Horrible night sweats, slight weight gain, headaches, small memory loss, inability to think of certain words. | I was put on Effexor XR 9 months after my baby girl was born. I have been on Effexor for almost a year and a half now and have had only minor side effects. I take 150mg daily. Don't ever forget to take your pill. I skipped one day a few days ago and felt completely strange. I was so dizzy I could barely walk, was nauseus, the whol nine yards. I am seriosuly considering getting off of this drug since I think my post partum has subsided by now, but am seriously scared about the side effects from coming off the med. | F | 28 | 1.5 years | 8/11/2006 | 1 | GAD | Insomnia, loss of appetite (I'm all but a skeleton now), decreased sex drive, delayed ejaculation, sweating, dizziness, lack of concentration - just felt drugged. | Absolutely useless. Was on Paxil for 5 years and am going back. Sexual dysfunction is worse on Paxil but at least you get your life back. | M | 34 | 7 weeks | 8/10/2006 | 3 | depression | The intial dry mouth and headache went away in a few days. But my blood pressure (which had always been lo or lo normal) rose to 148/80 so I had to discontinue. Oh, and did I mention the vivid dreams and nightmares. Like Stephen Spielburg had moved into my head! | F | 47 | 6 weeks | 8/9/2006 | 3 | depression | headache, sugar cravings, nightmares, elevated blood pressure, dry mouth, nausea at the beginning and at every dosage increase - 2 or 3 days of vomitting. | The vivid dreams were interesting. The nausea was not. I finally had to discontinue the drug because it seemed to seriously raise my blood pressure. I'm not sure if it helped my depression or not. Didn't end it but might have blunted it somewhat. No sexual side effects for me. But the 40 lbs I put on while taking it affected my attitude about sex... | F | 42 | 6 months | 8/9/2006 | 1 | severe depression | no sex drive, weight gain, memory loss, difficulty concentration, feeling the drug in the brain, don't give a damn about anything, feeling the dependency on this drug, like it thinks for me - terrible feeling, acting slow | Side effects are not worth it. Effexor if #1 THE MOST ADDICTIVE DRUG,(Paxil is #2). Be carefull before taking it. | F | 25 | 2 weeks | 8/9/2006 | 4 | Mostly Anxiety; little depression | At the very beginning of taking Effexor XR (75 mg) I had more energy, sweaty palms, jittery legs, hot flashes. After about two weeks, the side effects settled down and I thought I was doing alright. | But then I felt almost the same as I did before Effexor XR. I started thinking maybe I had to increase my dose but then about a month and half before I went to see my psychiatrist, I started excercising a lot and now I feel great. I'm not going to change a thing but I think it was a combination of the Effexor XR, the summer starting, taking walks during my work days, and generally excercising more. I haven't had this much confidence and self esteem in so long. I can finally talk to my best friends like I used to and I can't tell you how good that makes me feel!!! I feel like myself again, and I'll tell ya, it's been close to 10 years!! | F | 29 | 4 months | 8/8/2006 | 5 | Depression, Epilepsy | Night Sweats, Restless Legs | Take 150mg, and that, along with Provigil that I started a bit later, appear to have given my regular epilepy meds a push to stop my seizures, that were previously at 4-5 a day. I do sweat like a pig at night, am very flat emiotionally and have zero sex drive, which is good, because it also keeps my johnson from working very well. May sound like a crappy drug, but I'll take the side effects for no seizures any day. | M | 39 | 6 months | 8/4/2006 | 1 | Major Depressive Disorder | This withdrawal is terrible. This is the 5th time im trying to get off it went down from 225-75. Im in great difficulty but have decided to be resilient. I am extremely worried about lasting side effects. | Anyone feel free to contact me about this It can really help having someone who understands what is going on. [email protected] | M | 20 | 2 years | 8/4/2006 |