Your doctor is telling you that your not sleeping is your problem? Or at least that is the way I saw it.

There are, of course, many reasons that we don't sleep, medication being ONE of them. Anxiety - as you said being another.

My sleeping issues became a lot worse when I took Effexor and I firmly believe, in fact I KNOW it was the drug and not me!

Either way - you have said that you are feeling better and that Effexor is helping with our anxiety. It always amazes me how each and every one of us react so differently to a drug.