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 |
| 4 | Panic Attacks, Generalized Anxiety | At first, serious sweating and then a feeling of euphoria. I think I feel more depressed somehow but also more level. Sometimes a giddy hyperness soon after I take it. Occassional leg cramps, jumpy legs -maybe not related. Sometimes a very strange thing when I walk and I feel like an adrenaline rush and my eyes can't keep up with my walking- very hard to explain-NEVER experienced anything like it befor- but pretty rarely happens. I am at my heaviest ever and attribute about 10-15lbs. to the med. | This pretty quickly and effectively cured me of my severe anxiety, panic attacks and especially effective for social anxiety. I no longer get severe depression, but sometimes feel like I am more depressed in general. STill have some occassional anxiety which is probably not normal, but I can live with it. I am terrified about the possible difficult withdrawl but feel that I don't want to be on this drug forever. Getting married soon and will have to get off when we plan to start our family. Do not want the panic attacks back- I just don't know what to do. | F | 34 | 1 years | 7/11/2005 | 5 | Anxiety/Tics/ADD | Weight loss- 20lbs the first two moths. Decreased appetite. Orgasm difficulty, Mentally I'm a little slower, but my brain isn't going 1,000 MPH with ADD/anxiety so it's a trade off. A little tremor, but if I lay off caffeine/alcohol it's not bad. | Don't believe the hype, this pill isn't the devil. It killed my anxiety/ADD and I don't tic (I was blinking a lot) anymore. I love this stuff. Highly recommned it. I've also talked with 2 other people who have gone off effexor and didn't have any problems. Any pills that change the chemicals in your brain are going to be magic for some, and hell for others. This has been magic for me. I just need to quit losing weight because I can't afford to get my clothes resized again. This won't make you fat either. I actually a forget to eat sometimes, I never did that before. And I went from a strict low carb diet to eating whatever I want. Since I eat less on Effexor, I still lose weight, love this stuff. | M | 6 months | 6/28/2005 | 2 | depression | Jitteriness, can't concentrate, no ambition, decrease in sex drive, increased anxiety, feel 'flat' | Initially helped my depression-been at 225mg for almost 2 years. I increased to 300 but became extremely jumpy. Worked OK for a while but have been feeling 'zombie-like'. I am not depressed, feel 'detached' and no feelings. | F | 51 | 2 years | 6/28/2005 | 4 | depression | constipation, dulled emotions, loss of libido | I had thought effexor had fewer sexual side effects than the SSRIs, but I have not found that to be the case. I added Wellbutrin, which helped to increase my libido for about 2-3 weeks... then, nothing. | F | 42 | 2 days | 6/23/2005 | 5 | Depression | Insomnia, dizzyness, upset stomach | After I had taken It for a month I was too dependant on it and I missed 3 days worth of pills. Me not taking those pills for three days resulted in vomiting, extreme dizzyness, nervousness, shaking, and bad dreams. | F | 17 | 3 months | 6/21/2005 | 5 | Depression/anxiety | Nausia, constant sweating, constipation | The best antidepressent for me. Like everyone else the withdrawal feels like a nightmare. Went off once cold turkey and thought I was in another planet. Went into a real high for a week as if I were on cocaine - felt fabultous - then started to crash. Ended up driving to a client literally bouncing off the walls. Horrid. Missed a dose a couple times and my whole body felt like it was shutting down - bowls went out of control and had dry heaves . Took a dose and was | F | 44 | 8 years | 6/21/2005 | 5 | Depression/anxiety | Nausia, constant sweating, constipation | The best antidepressent for me. Like everyone else the withdrawal feels like a nightmare. Went off once cold turkey and thought I was in another planet. Went into a real high for a week as if I were on cocaine - felt fabultous - then started to crash. Ended up driving to a clinic literally bouncing off the walls. Horrid. Missed a dose a couple times and my whole body felt like it was shutting down - bowls went out of control and had dry heaves . Took a dose and was | F | 44 | 8 years | 6/21/2005 | 5 | IBS caused by Anxiety/depression | It was tough to get started, and took almost three weeks for the severe stomach pain to go away, and then it did, completely. It makes me sleep very deeply, which I never did before and I've gone from being awake at 6:00a.m. to happier sleeping until 9:00a.m (in my case this is a good thing). I am also must less preoccupied with sex. I didn't think this was an issue for me at all until I found what it's probably like for normal people. I have no performance problems at all, in fact I think my wife is enjoying our sex life more than ever before. But I am not constantly horny, which I was. I am enjoying sex much more. I am more patient with everyone and much more able to focus on my work. The major side effect for me is that I sleep deeply. | Saved my life. I was in a downward spiral and feeling like an old man. Sad, and in pretty much constant pain from various things. I was down to eating plain meals of only easy to digest food. I didn't go out much. Now I'm like a normal person again. Since I've been on this treatment I've come to understand that I was probably suffering from severe anxiety for the last 20 years, with depression and physical symptoms of the anxiety setting in since I was about 40. Now I have the outlook I did when I was 25 (if not the energy). I look forward to all the things I can do in life. Effexor has turned off the background of worry that was always dripping in my head. | M | 47 | 16 months | 6/14/2005 | 3 | Social Anxiety | Night sweats and I start sweating a lot with minimal activity. Semen in urine, hard to retain erection, low libido which makes my wife wonder why any man would be given this medication as that alone could cause depression to a guy. | I have tried to get off this medication several times, but the side effects are so bad I couldn't handle it. I am down to the lowest dosage, but would like to get stop taking it. If anyone has successfully stopped taking this medication please send me and email with how you did it and the symptoms. | M | 36 | 3 years | 6/13/2005 | 5 | depression | no side effects | I have been on effexor since it first came on the market. When XR came on the market I transfered to it. I cannot find any long term research on this drug. ASnyone out there who has been on it as long as I have + 10 years? | F | 60 | 10 years | 6/12/2005 | 1 | Major Depression | Hypertension. Extreme anxiety attacks lasting for 3 full days and nights - after only 3 x 75mg tablets of effexor xr | I have been on Avanza (60mg) for about 18 months, and the doctor recently recommended adding 75mg of Efexor in the morning, and reducing the Avanza to 30mg at night. First day (Wednesday) was fine, second day (Thursday) i started getting anxiety attacks every couple of hours, leading up to around lunchtime when i found myself to be extremely agitated and in a permanent state of anxiety, the likes of which i have never experienced before - shakes, very panicky, extremely agitated and nervous, etc. Friday i was in two minds about taking the pill, but did it anyway, and the anxiety just didn't stop. I have not taken the effexor since Friday morning, it is now Monday and i am JUST starting to lose the anxiousness, not to mention the feeling of total exhaustion and loss of sleep. It was that bad that i basically have hidden all weekend, didn't answer the phone and was very apprehensive about even going downstairs to do the washing. At least i finally managed to get some sleep last night, with the help of 2 stillnox tablets. For me this drug has been shit and i will never take it again. The side effects are easily found on the net, so if you are a first timer, be wary of the side effects. | M | 43 | 3 days | 6/12/2005 | 5 | sleep problems during menopause | I'm only taking 37.5 per day so I don't seem to have problems like weight gain that I've read about. But everytime I try to stop taking it, I have trouble sleeping again. | F | 51 | 1 years | 6/8/2005 | 3 | depression | Broke out in a terrible rash, started on my back and went all over my body. Completely killed my libido, no desires in that area whatsoever. | It was great while I was able to take it. I felt so much better, I started enjoying life again, it was like my brain | M | 39 | 2 months | 6/7/2005 | 3 | depression | Broke out in a terrible rash, started on my back and went all over my body. Completely killed my libido, no desires in that area whatsoever. | It was great while I was able to take it. I felt so much better, I started enjoying life again, it was like my brain | M | 39 | 2 months | 6/7/2005 | 5 | depression (familial) | None except nausea, so I now take it right before bed. | It has changed my life--I am so much more energetic now! I feel like a huge cloud has been lifted. I thank God for my doctor who diagnosed my depression! | F | 48 | 18 months | 6/5/2005 | 2 | Anxiety;night terrors | This drug works great as long as you don't plan on getting off of it...EVER. As soon as you try, you experience nothing like you have ever felt before. The tremmors in my opinion were the worse thing. | I think I will stick with being scared in cars and the night terrors. This is an extremly addictive drug and I feel like an addict trying to get off of it. They can keep it. Oh yea, and sex? HA! forget it. | F | 36 | 1 years | 5/31/2005 | 4 | Long term anxiety and depression | Intensified anxiety. Terrible hostile thoughts (short term) and felt could lose control. Sinister & negative outlook,seems to take you lower before bouncing back up. Yawning, constipation (short term). | Have gone back on Eff after 6 month break.Initial withdrawal done slowly was fine, however gradually spiralled down without it. The initial side effects are terrifying but thankfully past experience told me to | F | 43 | 3 years | 5/29/2005 | 5 | major depression, general anxiety | once missed two days' dose--started to experience the famous | this is an excellent drug for some people. it is very effective in controlling my GAD, which had made life miserable for more than a decade and is now essentially in abeyance; it is very effective in maintaining me in a robust remission of major depression. i was depressed for almost two years during which i was quite disabled. i experienced slow, steady but ratcheting progress toward wellness on celexa. it was not clear that i would approach anything like comprehensive recovery. i was switched to effexor because i asked to be--it's effect on norepinephine in addition to serotonin made it of special interest to me. it was markedly more effective than celexa, quite quickly, within two days. i've been on it for a year and a half, and since i'm high risk for recurrence of depression, will probaly stay on it indefinitly. i appreciate the withdrawal problems, but at present find it to be an almost unalloyed good. | F | 48 | 18 months | 5/28/2005 | 5 | Panic/Anxiety Disorder | None. Side effects only occured when I tried to get off of the drug some years ago. ( | Had severe panic attacks that would last up to an hour at their height. Effexor has completely stopped my panic attacks and reoccurring thoughts. LOVE IT! However, remember: Everyone's chemical makeup is unique and will react differently. You can't anticipate side effects. It worked for me - however, getting off of it is not pleasant, for me. If I am on it for life, I am okay with that. Diabetics take insulin, I take Effexor. | F | 29 | 5 years | 5/28/2005 | 1 | depression | It made me crazy.I felt weird on this medicine and wanted to die.I took an overdose of water pills just to see what would happen to me.The pills should be taken off the market. | F | 55 | 60 days | 5/27/2005 |