Posted by R.Anne on November 2, 2000, at 21:55:08
In reply to Re: Oops, I took too much Effexor! Will it hurt me?, posted by Shell on November 2, 2000, at 21:37:36
> > I'm interested in knowing what you did and what happened? How are you doing now?
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> I really didn't notice any difference. I kept waiting to feel funny, but nothing happened. I called a local teaching hospital's hotline and they told me that 600 mg is not an unheard of dose. They also said that I might expect any side effects that I normally experience with Effexor to be magnified. I never have had any side effects with Effexor and even at this dose I didn't have any.
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> I did read somewhere that people have taken more than 6,000 mg without any major problems. I went back to my normal dose of 300 mg without incident.
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> Thanks so much for all the help and concern.
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> Shell
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Hey, you're welcome! Glad to see you are okay and alive! If I took that much effexor I'd probably never sleep again and God knows what else would happen to me. I'm on a much lower dose because I can't take high doses of medicines. I'm happy that it didn't phase you.:-)
poster:R.Anne
thread:47874
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