Mornings

Treatment and medication
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Q.

Is it a case of timing?

I sometimes forgot when to take VF, so started to get the brain zaps late afternoon . I would take the med and as long as the med worked before say 9pm, then I got a better sleep and therefore better morning.

I go thru a lot of sleep deprivation due to constant running thru problems memories etc. Nights of staring at the walls, and fading away then fading in at 4am ..

ALSO when I ran out of VF during rest - either during Saturday or weeknight, I would get some weird dreams - not bad as such but one of the weirdest was that my task to defend someones home was to seal the doors. We found some magic way that we later discovered involved using the energy of a giant mushroom just outside the door.. only it was too far for the other side of the home, but we finally discovered that urine fixed that problem. Don't ask any more cause that was the best of the dream. I'm sure it wasn't cola, or chocolate, or alchohol based.

I don't know if thats even Depression or something else.

The way Australian politics are going these days, someone who has these type of dreams could be Prime Minister.

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Hi valarie.

Take it at night. Venlaflaxine has a sedative effect and you get a goid nights sleep and wake up with the meds in your system.

You have to fiddle with when to take it....i had mine at around 7pm with my evening meal n went to bed at 10. i was sleepy but not incapacitated! 

If you have XL it then releases in the day and you aren't coming down in the day when most stresses in life happen! 

Helen 

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Well to update you.  I have been on 75mg now for 2 weeks and panic getting less. However still feeling very depressed. Am going to drs for review later and wondering whether I should up the dose until I can cope (did that last time) and then reduce again or persevere and hope I can kick the depression now the anxietys less. Thoughts? Also am suffering with my back again which triggers my mood.

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When you say brain zaps can you describe them?

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Valerie see what the doctor says about upping your dose.  Let us know what he says.  I was on 150mg daily for years, and it worked very well for me.  Know all too well about bad back too. !!  I found the 250mg dose worked really well for anxiety and depression.  

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Did you mean 250g dose worked well for anxiety and depression?

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Hi valerie,

I used 225mg XL (at night) for both anxiety and depression. My dose was slowly increased as 225mg is considered to be the theraputic dose for treating both anxiety and depression together.

I was upped to 300mg for a short period but found myself really sluggish on it and reduced back to 225mg and had diazepam (2mg) on my really bad days of anxiety. This suited me really quite well.

Goood luck and be patient! You need to slowly increase your dose to minimse the side effects you can suffer from taking it. In around 3 weeks things will start to seem a lot less of an uphill struggle.

Helen

 

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Hi Froggy,

I have re-joined Patient's uk, after stopping. I think I use this and another mh forum I'm on too much. Anyway I'm back. I don't know whether taking the venlafaxine at a different time will change things. I take slow release capsules. 75mg in the morning and 37.50 evening. I wonder if swapping round would make any difference to the really bad mornings. Scared, so stressed every nerve in my body tense. I am a senior citizen and use that as an excuse to take 1,25mg oxazepam. I need a bit of quality of life and try not to worry about addictions.

I know that you aren't supposed to keep changing when you take an ad as it "upsets" your brain.

I live in Holland..(ex pat)  How's Australia?

SWx

 

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Funny! my brother worked in Eindhoven for 5 years

Mate, Aussie would make you more depressed than you are already.

Don't go back! I'm seriously thinking of going to the land of the K-pop cause a country under *real* siege instead of press-siege is much more positive than where Aussie stands at the moment.

Yes the brain gets upset, but the question I asked myself is why am I taking something that affects my brain so much.

I am now enjoying eating food. I am looking forward to having a Chicken/Cheese/Lettuce sandwich in a couple of hours.

Before I was just taking on fuel as it were..

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I can associate with this and some things I cant do in the morning. I have just started Venflaxine, but in the past tried Mitazapine and Citalpram

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I think all these drugs effect us all differently 

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Hi ive been off for 6mths an beleive im still feelin withdrwal an i 2 have hell in the mornings confusion hard out