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Originally Posted by splitimage
I take Effexor and am on 375 mg of it. I like it. I had some start up side effects that were a bit unpleasant, but they went away - about the only one I have left, is it raises my body temp, so I'm almost always hot.
I do think it also helped me get through menopause symptom free - it's prescribed at low doses for helping some women with menopause, so it could very well help with pms.
Good luck with it.
splitimage
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Anecdotally, an NP prescribed it to my mom after her cancer diagnosis, treatment, and pretty immediate stoppage of HRT (which obviously uncovered the hot flashes). Suffice to say, it didn't do anything and when she listened to the stupid NP instead of me and stopped it abruptly, she got brain zaps for some time.
I have seen at least one incredibly small study (n=6 maybe?) showing venlafaxine having some effect on hot flashes, but it was impossible to tell if it was a truly significant result that could be applied more broadly, placebo effect, or some other artifacting.