Posted by baracuda on September 6, 2008, at 16:41:49
In reply to Re: Effexor + Zoloft - together!, posted by Baracuda on June 13, 2008, at 19:49:14
hi - i'm back to give my review. I've also come back to read my past experiences so that I can make some decisions based on my outcome.
I'm up to 150 mg of vexafenaline - generic for effexor. For some strange reason, my pharmacy gave me the generic version even though the rx was for effexor xr and not knowing, I took it, and felt amazingly amazing. I had a huge sexual drive (which I haven't had for almost 7 years) but it was gone after 1 day.
I have felt so good on effexor, it has been amazing. I'm much more focused and able to do alot more things and live a much more robust lifestyle, although for some strange reason, when I take my 2nd afternoon dose of 75 mg (I take 75 mg in the morning) my afternoon dosage always makes me need to lay down for a couple of hours every afternoon, but even with the mandatory downtime, I still get much more done during the day than I ever did without it.
I'm weaning off the zoloft now - I am on my first week of taking 25 mgs daily, and tomorrow starts my first day of actually not being on it at all. I've had some minor side effects from the weaning off, day 1 and day 2 had irritability issues and day 3 I had another sexual surge which lasted only a day again. but hey, 2 sexual surges in less than 1 week is better than the none I had in the last years lol.
my hair loss has pretty much tamed down, I think I am still getting a bit thinner hair than I had but its slowed down.
ok more later.
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