Posted by Mud on September 2, 2001, at 12:52:45
I'm beginning my fourth year on effexor xr this month. The drug has been a lifesaver for me, taking away the depression that I'd lved with as long as I could remember, giving me a boost of energy that had been missing, just basically making life more livable...in fact, making life enjoyable for the first time. I've joked from the first that I know what would happen if I had to get off the effexor: Someone would have to go into my brain with a hammer, to that entrance to my depressive side, and pull out the nails that this medication used to keep that entry shut for these years. And that would no doubt give me an awful headache. But I guess I feel like it would be worth it, that these three years without depression have been such a wonderful glimpse of the life I imagined other people living.
So what I would like to start is a thread for people who are long-term users, who perhaps see themselves as potential lifetime users. Is this a good place for that, or is there somewhere else on the web where this thread would be a better fit?
I'm soon to be fifty-one, so began taking this at forty-eight, after too many years of depression, anxiety, etc.
Anyone interested?
poster:Mud
thread:77421
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20010902/msgs/77421.html