I was curious as to how your feeling since posting this. I am going thru a similar situation for a month now. Thank you
It's 1 + years on for me. It's so difficult to say anything other than anecdotal experience. I'm now on Ven 225,g + 15mg Mirtazapine and I think latter (known to help with sleep) does indeed help me sleep well. What they are doing to my brain I don't know! We all don't know (ordinary mortals and researchers). After all, these drugs hit receptors that have functions too myriad to consider. BUT although I personally feel that drugs have their place, for some people, and that some drugs work well with some people and poorly (or nastily) with others, I don't fee that anyone should neglect the others choices of help alongside drugs.
To hope that a drug alone will `cure' is (IMO) too much to hope for. So consider other `add-on' non-drug things e.g. talking therapy, mindfulness, whatever. An in the case of anxiety, find a way of exposing yourself to the anxious situations rather than avoid them.
Maybe u know something about how u got into this state, and so it may help to do something addressing that.
You don't have to do everything on your own too. Look for support places (self-help groups)
I've just been away to a place for a few days, and I was scared about how I would feel on this remote island a long way from home. I turned out to be a lot better than I had imagined. I know if someone told me what I've just said, that I'd still think `0h they don't know me', but at least on this occssion I was wrong
Not meaning to sound lecturesome!
Cheers
P.S. Feel free to ask anything else
P.S. Although the people saying ( X or Y drug stopped working), bear in mind that this may appear to be true, but could be because it's your mental state that has got worse so the drug dose may no longer be sufficient. in depression this is termed `breakthrough depression'. I'm just saying this as something you need to consider. It's damn hard. Our mental states make it hard to be objective.
Hi, i know this is an old feed but I am going through this just now. I was on fluoxitine for years for depression but i started getting bad anxiety so docs put me on venlafaxine. Thought I was dying at 1st until they put me on prolonged release lol. Anyway, they are great for anxiety but awful for my depression! I made the decision to go back on fluoxetine, even though I knew the withdrawals would be terrible as missing 1 was unreal! Im now down to 37.5mg venlafaxine XL and got 20mg of fluoxetine which doc says I can start just now. I'm a bit worried about it because i had to stop fluoxetine for a week before starting venlafaxine lol but that may have been because it wasn't the prolonged ones! Kinda feeling ok about it now as I see most of you were given the same. Anyway I'm babbling lol just wanted to put my bit in for future readers. I am so dizzy it's unreal, But i am getting there lol Doc says she'll give me propanadol along with the fluoxetine if my anxiety flares up...Wish me luck!
I am switching the other way. Stayed on Prozac 20 for 8 weeks it didn’t help me. Started Effexsor 75 been on the drug for 12 days. Hope it works for me and Prozac works for you.
Hi Vanilla, as of 2 weeks now I'm off of effexor, and been on 40mg prozac , still feeling rough. But I am going to see a psychiatrist in a few weeks. It doesn't seem like the prozac is doing the job. And maybe the dosage needs to be adjusted. I have worked with my family dr throughout this for the past few months, and was getting nowhere fast, as far as the symptoms I'm having. My suggestion is see a specialist if you're not feeling better after so much time. I think i.should have felt some improvement by now, but havent. So that's what I'm doing. Good luck to you, this is no fun, and I sympathize with all going thru this.
Long story short was on 150mgs of ven for 10 yrs was able to wean my self of by taking it every few days over the span of a couple months. Was in a good mental state of mind and honestly don't remember the wds being to bad. Was med free for the past few years. And maybe not that short of a story after all. Over the past few months anxiety followed by depression returned. I went to my gp we tried Lexapro for a month didn't help. So I stupidity suggested to just go back on ven again. It's been a month on 75mgs with little to no improvement. My question is could I just replace Prozac for ven to try and avoid wds and possibly just give Prozac a chance?