I work with as a patient navigator for cancer patients. I am not a doctor (and I don't play one on TV!). I could have finished training to become a therapist, but I wound up functioning as a social worker instead. In any case, I see some women prescribed effexor for true menopause and the menopause-like side effects of aromatase inhibitors for breast cancer treatment. How in the world did this drug get considered for something like that!? It seems pretty specific to this one antidepressant. HRT is better than effexor, of course, but if HRT is not safe for you, then effexor seems to make a positive difference.
Yes, how DOES one come off effoxer? I don't take but someone in my family has taken it for 25 years. It worked well. They are now never depressed. But do they have to take it forever? This needs to be discussed with patients--that you are stuck on the drug, possibly for life
14 years on it. Was at 375mg/day XR. Has taken me 2 years to get down to 75mg. Sigh. May have worked at one point (?), but not anymore. Side effects unpleasant, withdrawal when I forget it is brutal.
"Nemeroff a very careful academic." His financial ties to the drug companies are the stuff of legend, as well as him lying to his university about how much payola he was taking. He took millions of dollars from them.
I work with as a patient navigator for cancer patients. I am not a doctor (and I don't play one on TV!). I could have finished training to become a therapist, but I wound up functioning as a social worker instead. In any case, I see some women prescribed effexor for true menopause and the menopause-like side effects of aromatase inhibitors for breast cancer treatment. How in the world did this drug get considered for something like that!? It seems pretty specific to this one antidepressant. HRT is better than effexor, of course, but if HRT is not safe for you, then effexor seems to make a positive difference.
Yes, how DOES one come off effoxer? I don't take but someone in my family has taken it for 25 years. It worked well. They are now never depressed. But do they have to take it forever? This needs to be discussed with patients--that you are stuck on the drug, possibly for life
14 years on it. Was at 375mg/day XR. Has taken me 2 years to get down to 75mg. Sigh. May have worked at one point (?), but not anymore. Side effects unpleasant, withdrawal when I forget it is brutal.
"Nemeroff a very careful academic." His financial ties to the drug companies are the stuff of legend, as well as him lying to his university about how much payola he was taking. He took millions of dollars from them.