Posted by europerep on July 6, 2010, at 12:06:39
In reply to Re: where to go from here?, posted by emilyp on July 5, 2010, at 23:14:53
hi,
just to add the info I should have included in the first post, in case anybody else wants to answer:
venlafaxine is helping me a great deal. the other doc I used to see wanted me to go down with the dose, thinking that would solve the problem, and in order to be compliant I did it. at 375mg I was feeling soo awful that I decided to up it again myself.
if I could start out "clean" right now, I would try something else, but I think that I am not able to get rid of venlafaxine outside of a hospital environment (at least without anything else that would make up for it). therefore, now that I am already on venlafaxine, I want to check out all the possibilities I have, so that if I decide to go off it, I won't have no thoughts like "hmm I could have tried this and that with VFX, it might have done the job.."adding something, like agomelatine, would take four weeks, six maybe, while tapering off venlafaxine would be a VERY huge step I guess..
also, it's not about switching to self medicating for good, just about trying one other combo until I find a good doc.. just to not lose the time, because time is sooo precious!
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