Posted by Sad Panda on March 13, 2004, at 4:06:14
In reply to LINK: We are all amateur psychopharmacologists, posted by PsychoSage on March 12, 2004, at 18:27:53
http://www.puredirectory.com/Health/Medicine/Pharmacology/Psychopharmacology/
Some really good links there PsychoSage, I am just reading through Jerod Poore's http://www.crazymeds.org/
It has some good reading for the Layperson's such as myself. Here is a snip about Effexor:"Pros: If anything is going to cure the deepest, blackest depression, it's Effexor. Perhaps Effexor in combination with an antipsychotic, but for deep, despairing clinical depression that is going to respond to the standard tweaking of the popular neurotransmitters, Effexor pulls people out of the abyss.
Cons: The absolute worst discontinuation syndrome of an antidepressant. Effexor is a medication people utterly loathe to have taken. It is not uncommon for someone to change doctors during or immediately after Effexor discontinuation."
Pretty much sums up the good & bad of Effexor.
Cheers,
Panda
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