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Just got home from a dr's appt and was perscribed effexor and ativan. Anybody have experience with either of these?
ativan....... Bad withdrawals ... Id rather kick myself in the nuts then take that shit again !!
DONT TAKE THAT SHIT! that my only OP fo ryou on this.Just got home from a dr's appt and was perscribed effexor and ativan. Anybody have experience with either of these?
Trazodone is a powerful sedative, and not nearly as addictive. Works great for me.
Ditto. 100mg of trazodone works wonders for sleep and is not physically addictive. I'm not aware of any anti-anxiety benefits from it though. It is an older generation quadracyclic anti-depressant I believe and is no longer prescribed for depression. Any return to market would likely be as a hypnotic-sedative.
Trazodone is a powerful sedative, and not nearly as addictive. Works great for me.
Ive heard good things about it, what dose are you on ? Thanks.
root is nto harmful. water root extract is fine . not use other parts or ethanol extraction like alot of companys started doing when they saw a pennie to be made.effexor is interesting from a chemist's point of view ( moi). At the low doses, 37.5mg and 75mg it acts almost as a pure SSRI like Lexapro and Zoloft , at the higher doses ( 100) it acts as both an SNRI and SSRI, then at the highest dose 150-300 it acts almost as a pure SNRI like its competitor Cymbalta. So at the lowest dose it is essentially a zoloft and at the highest dose it is essentially cymbalta. It is no worse or better than other antidepressants and docs can play with which side effects profile or benefits they want ( pure SSRI or more SNRI). It has a very short half life so stopping it suddenly causes more serotonin discontinuatin syndrome than prozac which has a 3 week half life.
For the record, most of the "bad" stuff with antidepressants were inappropriate prescriptions to bipolars who flipped into mania or psycosis on antidepressnats since most need mood stabilizers as well. ( my brother was one of them).
Ativan is the bad stuff and should only be used temporaririly, it is addictive and is abused and sequestered often so I hate giving that stuff.
Be careful with Kava kava, it causes fulminant liver failure and has been taken off the shelves in many european countries. St johns wort helps mild but not severe depression or bipolar depression. Also, if you have had a organ transplant, don't take St. John's wort since it causes acute rejection of the transplanted organ.
I thought the rhizome and root of Piper methysticum was not hepatoxic, but rather the leaves and stems contained liver toxic constituents.
root is nto harmful. water root extract is fine . not use other parts or ethanol extraction like alot of companys started doing when they saw a pennie to be made.
theses where the issues.
Currently 200 mg, but it takes awhile to build up to that.
Effexor is horrible shit. Felt like a zombie on it, forget about boners and coming off was like death. painful death.
supposedly you also can expect to gain about 40 pounds.