Posted by sid on February 19, 2002, at 18:35:30
In reply to Re: Success with Effexor Sid I Apologize!!, posted by Reneeb on February 19, 2002, at 12:00:33
> Hi Sid, I need to apologize for coming on so strong. I felt a little offended by your remarks, but thats not your problem.
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> I hope that you continue to do well.
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> Renee
Well, I was hoping you wouldn't feel offended, but you did...I do read things about problems with Effexor, and I certainly appreciate the info I get here. But we do hear a lot of negative things about it on this web site. And many people here have treatment-resistant depression too. They've tried many things which have not worked. I still believe that the success stories don't get written much here. There's not much to say: you go back to work, family, whatever kept you off the streets before the depression, and that's that.
I did not mean that people with depression don't have a life. It's good for them to write here, get info, share info and also for the mutual support. At some point however, when people get better, they move on to other things simply because this web site is not as useful to them as it once was. Plus they enjoy life again, so they want to bite into it as much as possible, and the computer screen suddenly is not so appealing. Depression is so tough, if you can enjoy life again, you jump right into it, it seems to me.
So yes, many people here are weaning off Effexor, like you, but I still don't think they constitute a representative sample, simply because success stories are not reported as much. I did not mean to trivialize what you wrote, I wanted to give a different opinion. So far my experience with Effexor XR has been good. I'm very aware that this could change however.
I do appreciate all the info I've gotten here. For example, I would have stopped taking Effexor XR had I not read here that what I was experiencing initially was normal. And you are certainly right when you say that one person's experience is not enough to make up your mind about an AD. Different people in different phases of depression react very differently to ADs, so ultimately, one needs to try a med to see if it would work on him.
Anyway, I'm sorry I offended you, it was not my intention at all. English is not my mother-tongue and sometimes the tone of what I write is different from what I meant.
I hope you feel better soon.
- sid
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