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[bubba727]

i was prescribed effexor 75mg 2x a day they make me feel like a drank tons of coffee and make me very irritable. ihave cut the pill in half and its still the same. i tried taking a quarter of a pill today that seems better but will it work taking that small of a dose?

[4Maddie44]

Now isn't it strange how different meds work on different people?  I am on 150mg Effexor a day and it calms me and gets rid of anxiety and panics.

Once I was put on Prozac and it is the worst thing that ever happened to me.  I could not keep still.  I ran around crying all the time, hated being alone, was climbing the walls.

Seroxat gave me jerking spasms when I was on holiday and I had to see a doctor stright away and had to have an injection and stop those pills.

The old pills made me very agressive, which is not me at all.  I could have killed people it was so bad.  They got thrown away.

We have to keep trying different anti-depressants until we find the one that suits us best.  Effexor works for me.  No side effects at all.

Talk to whoever prescribed it to you.  Some people are on 10mgs a day some on 350mgs a day of anti-depressant.  We are all different.  All our bodies are different.

[remar]

It may work. It's so hard to say because we all respond to these meds differently. You may want to let your Dr know that you've lowered your dose.