Posted by bigcat on December 5, 2005, at 15:46:54
I started Effexor about two weeks ago and it kicked in after a couple days and remained great for about ten days, more or less. I started to slip a couple days ago, and now I am extremely depressed and defeated. I thought this was the one. It felt natural, I had acess to my brain unobscured from self loathing, OCD, awful anxiety and cognitive impairment and confusion. It was the best remission I've experienced throughout six years of med failures and horrific depression/anxiety.
This experience has happened many times to me, when a med kicks in very early into the trial, and then fades out just as quickly. I've had about two weeks of freedom on the Nardil, Serzone, partial response to Elavil recently, and a couple hypomanic weeks on Marplan (didn't respond to 90mgs of Parnate). Dexedrine actually gave me a couple great months and I thought I was healed, and then poopage happened again. What would you say this indicates? I've gotten my hopes up so many times and have been so excited to have my life "begin" (15 years of depression/severe anxiety/OCD, social fear, and mild paranoia. 16 ECT treatments failed. I'll stay on the Effexor for now and hope it may start doing something again after being in my system longer, but I'm doubtful this will happen. So much frustration, so many failures.
So an early response to meds (full remission, not feeling somewhat improved) followed by being in hell again just as fast has been my case. I've never had a gradual improvement while on a med, it's just been so fast in for a brief period and then out with a crash. Benzos do nothing for me; extremely high doses do nothing either. I suppose giving meds more time could help, but I just don't know. I frequently get much worse upon starting a new med. I can't read my history at all, and don't know where to go from here. I suppose I'll drop the Effexor dose way down from 300mgs to 150. I feel hopeless, please help.
-matt-
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thread:585804
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