I just started taking it last week. Going off my other meds and changed to Efexor. Oh my gosh, I have been so sick. The other meds must have been doing more good than we thought, but still not effective enough. As we lowered the dose I was going back to my old self and I have been to hell and back this last week. Actually. I'm not back from hell yet but hopefully I will feel better soon. Effexor is supposed to work really well so I hope it's the right one for me because changing and swapping meds is very hard. One word for my life this last week or two...torture. I've been in the pits. I hope this was not too negative a reply. I am feeling so bad. I really feel like I wanna die. I wanna do bad things. At least that is what my brain is screaming out at me constantly. But I know it's lying like crazy. I don't wanna die. I know there are good things ahead even if life right now is more than I can handle. Somehow I will get to the other side of this.