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#51
Mar 19, 2017, 03:15 AM
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almost 6 weeks on 45mg. 2 days ago I started taking also the Effexor 75mg.
Blood Pressure is high. Need ways to control it. Mood is terribly low. Probably from adding the effexor. |
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#52
Mar 19, 2017, 01:11 PM
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Today I have just got my 3rd Effexor pill.
This time I started feeling pleasant tingling sensations throughout my body minutes after taking it, mostly in my head. These pleasant sensations signal that the pill is kicking in nicely. I am here sitting and I am enjoying these sensations. Before taking the pill (and after 2 consecutive days taking it), I was feeling really low. I am not sure about my sexual drive. It really worries me. I feel a bit like emotionally numb. I feel I will ask my doctor to decrease the 45mg of mirtazapine into 30mg while maintaining the 75mg of effexor. |
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#53
Mar 20, 2017, 02:42 AM
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I feel like a sweet spot is coming with these dosages (45mg Mirtazapine and 75mg Effexor). Nevertheless I feel my desire for women (=libido) has fallen since taking the 3rd pill and while this makes it easier to forget the one I had in my mind, it does not make me feel proud as a man. It is like I don't feel my penis any more which is strange.
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#54
Mar 28, 2017, 01:42 AM
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Ups and downs keep coming. I am definitely not at my highs. I Keep paying for a psychotherapist and doctor.
I think I don't need to visit the doctor once every week. Too much money. I will self regulate my doses. I don't need a doctor. |
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#55
Mar 29, 2017, 12:57 PM
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****ing waiting for the pill to kick in further. Seen the doc. I asked to drop the mirtazapine dose from 45mg to 30mg.
Not the best, nor the worst day. It can get better. |
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#56
Mar 29, 2017, 01:13 PM
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Anybody there who wants to add something? Anybody reading my posts?
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#57
Mar 29, 2017, 06:40 PM
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I read them but don't have anything to add. I've never taken that particular med.
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#58
Apr 03, 2017, 09:40 AM
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2½ weeks on effexor 75mg (along with 45mg mirtazepine) My doctor is off. I am going to self regulate at 150mg effexor. |
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#59
Apr 10, 2017, 02:24 AM
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3 weeks on effexor 75mg and counting. After taking todays' pill I felt good.
Very good feeling. Coffee and effexor combined. Problem is that some veil still exists in my mind. There is something like an obsession with some belongings in the house. Troubling questions are still coming in my mind like: Why have I bought that stuff? Why have I spent so much money on gear. What am I going to do with the gear that I bought. This is why I am planning to sell things. All my belongings that cause my obsessed thinking to come. Nevertheless. Today, 1 hour after taking the pill I feel ok. The woman I like does not respond and she is planing a trip to some distant destination with somebody who paid the ticket for her. I feel betrayed while she is asking me not to comment what she does in her personal life. Nevertheless, the pill is kicking in nicely and soothes a bit my pain. Yeahhh. Definitely. It is kicking in. And I am just taking the minimal dose of 75mg. |
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#60
Apr 12, 2017, 01:32 AM
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Self upgraded effexor from 75mg to 150mg. No doctor advice because he is absent in another country. I had to upgrade by my self.
This is the 3rd day on 150mg of effexor and I feel I am doing well despite the outside emotional disappointment. I don't feel normal, but at least I can cope. I can afford life. I can't do my job. All the sickness I feel comes from woman's disappointment. But it does not come near to the bad situation I was before the pill. I pray for me and everybody here. We deserve a better quality of life. Because we live only once. |
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#61
Apr 13, 2017, 03:05 AM
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I got late to sleep yesterday. Haven't exercised this morning. I am feeling a bit sleepy. Not good not bad. Some bad thoughts come and go. The shlthead in the office is making lots of noise. I can cope.
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#62
Apr 14, 2017, 08:41 AM
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Feeling a bit strange. Instability is probably due to the dose increase. Expecting things to get better in the coming days.
150mg effexor. I self regulated mirtazapine from 45mg to 30mg because I was feeling it did not make any difference. |
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#63
Apr 14, 2017, 10:14 PM
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Mirtazapine - I just looked it up: Remeron, SolTab (other names for this)
Look it up in drug.com My provider wants me to start taking it and having it read about it I am going to refuse. I'm pretty sure I've already tried it as the names that I posted above. I can't believe she wants to put me on something where the common side effects are already symptoms that I deal with on a daily basis. I emailed her and told her and she emailed back that it can change with different med combinations. I didn't bother to write back and tell her that I refused to fill it. In fact I was just coming in to this blog to check on this very medication.
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#64
Apr 15, 2017, 06:36 AM
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Hi Kiya. Despite taking 45mg of mirtazapine, I don't think it has done any good to me. On the higher doses 45mg+ it over stimulates me. I haven't gained weight while on it, I can control my food cravings. The only good with mirtazapine I felt, was that it helped me to focus at work and sleep at night.
Now with the effexor upgrade from 75mg to 150mg I don't feel particularly good, but I am sure it is because the upgrade hasn't kicked in yet. I am waiting. I am sure in 1 or 2 days I will feel good again. I live in hope. Some obsessive thinking comes in my mind but I have been much worse before taking the pill. Hope it will kick in finally. Take care |
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#65
Apr 15, 2017, 02:38 PM
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Mirtazapine was the only antidepressant (besides Wellbutrin) to help me mentally and it actually made me sleep. The problem with it was that I gained weight rapidly due to weight retention and I was severely constipated. If it weren't for the water retention I would have stayed on it. I wish you the best of luck with it!
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#66
Apr 18, 2017, 12:06 AM
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I can't take Effexor or Welbutrin, I can barely tolerate 25 mg Zoloft. I'm on lamictal and Valium and trying to taper down trazodone. She wants the Remerol instead of the trazodone. Mind, she's taking legalized speed (adderal) just to get through her days and keep up with her patients. She said so. "To have enough energy to do it". Great.
I've tried 24 other various Meds, can barely tolerate SSRIs and can't tolerate any version of antipsychotic. I honestly don't know why we bother anymore.
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#67
Apr 18, 2017, 01:18 AM
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Mirtazapine in doses above 30 MG should be avoided it can cause or exacerbate existing cardiac problems .
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Apr 18, 2017, 11:46 PM
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Good to know. I just checked my rx: start with half a 15 mg tab then move to whole. Then she would increase later.
I have an irregular heart beat with PVCs (I never remember which is the flutter and which is the dropped beats but I get both).
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#69
Apr 19, 2017, 03:09 AM
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I dropped the mirtazapine dose from 45 to 30mg. I am keeping the 150mg of effexor.
The good news is that effexor has started to work. The bad news is that high blood pressure has skyrocketed. This is a major effexor side effect. It has really devastated me. Now I also have to worry about my physical health. With a blood pressure which is high I can't enjoy life. I worry about tomorrow. I will have to consult another specialist today in order to control my Blood Pressure with another pill. What else can I do? It really sucks guys. Really. |
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Apr 19, 2017, 03:26 AM
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PVCS are Premature ventricular contractions which very often lead to missed or dropped beats.ďo you feel allright ? Are you leading a normal life ? |
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#71
Apr 19, 2017, 09:45 PM
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All these meds really do suck. It's such an imperfect science and we are nearly guinea pigs. Then once your blood pressure goes up to give you a blood pressure medication and then one that screws up your thyroid to give you a thyroid medication until you're on so many medications that your health is horrible. I'm really sorry
 especially since there seems to be no other answer.  Quote:
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#72
Apr 19, 2017, 09:48 PM
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I am at a loss when it comes to medication. I feel like no one knows what they're doing but I'm just supposed to take it because they say so. The end. Good girl. Grrrrrr
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#73
Apr 19, 2017, 11:39 PM
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If I don't know everything there is about a drug and approve of the science behind it , they can prescribe till hell freezes I'll never take it , and many doctors have tried to get me to take something that I was completely against , they all find I don't compromise my beliefs because they have 5 cents worth more degree than I do , and I fire them , in my area the only specialties that I have not burned through is urology & proctology , the people I have I think are the best and amazingly have never given me a reason to fire them or doubt there skills which is no easy task. Stay strong and don't ever feel you "have" to take there advice, they are paid consultants just like the plumber or any other trade or skill. Yeah I take heart med's and thyroid and a cornucopia of other junk to prolong my life ( you develop a strange attachment for the grass in your own yard ) .
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#74
Apr 20, 2017, 06:37 AM
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On effexor 150mg since 10/04/2017. 10 days and Feeling average. I feel worried about the girl not replying my messages.
The pill definaly needs other week or 10 days to start showing its teeth. Waiting. I had some blood pressure issues. |
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#75
Apr 20, 2017, 06:44 AM
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I try to keep a diet and keep my mind as sane as possible in order to keep the blood pressure as low as possible. Let us all pray ! |
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