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for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 11226

Your very welcome Breezin!

It looks like there are not too many people here today. It would be nice to see some of the new members start to post!

I think I am going to start a thread regarding this so I won't take away from your topic

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for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 57

Thanks for the advice and thanks for asking how I am doing Ashley!

for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 11226

That's great Breezin!

Drinking a good amount of water may help with all your symptoms as well.

Members, how do you manage your side effects to medication?

Ashley, Health Educator

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for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 57

Well for the ones I have so far...the constipation I'm managing with a fiber supplement, the sweating I can't do much about. Occasional nausea hasn't been too much of problem and for the nervousness my doc prescibed some lorazepam.

for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 11226

That must be frustrating!

How have you been managing the side effects?

Ashley, Health Educator

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for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 57

So far it seems to be going well. I do have a few side effects that are a bit annoying but I'm trying to manage those. Because I am going off Cipralex and starting the Venlafaxine XR at the same time, it's hard to tell whether the side effects are coming from one drug or the other or both LOL.

for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 11226

Hi Breezin,

How are you doing with the new medication and dosage?

Ashley, Health Educator

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for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 57

Thanks for commenting TigerT and thanks for your best wishes. It is interesting that your doc put your dosage up to 300mg. I think the manufacturer states that the max dosage is 250mg. But if it is helping you I think that's great.

for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 23

Hi,

I've been on Venlafaxine since late November. I started on 37.5 and moved up to 150 in the first month, stayed there until Feb when I was very quickly bumped up to 300.

Frankly my experience has been FANTASTIC! (hands up who is feeling great these days :-) )

Personally (remembering that everyone is different!) it only helped a little until I hit 300 and then WOW!, within a week I was feeling so very much better.

With regards to side effects, I've had a few, generally when I have increased doses and they have only lasted a few days (headaches, yawning etc). My only big problem has been a bit of "gastrointestinal slowing" but I have found my increased appetite and taking a bucket load of fibre and some docusate has helped a lot.

I've read a lot about the withdrawal, but I suppose I won't know until I go off the drug. My GP has suggested a very long and slow decrease in a year or so, and personally at this stage either a bad withdrawal or a life on Venlafaxine is a lot better then experiencing depression again.

Good luck with the switch over, I hope you feel better soon.

And I hope that if you do get any side effects they don't last long.

for 14 år siden 0 +0 / -0 57

Beginning my second week today on the switchover to Venlafaxine XR. This week the Cipralex is reduced to 5mg per day from 10mg and the Venlafaxine XR is increased to 70mg per day for one week.

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