Frontline treatmetn for anxiety: Effexor

tcl18 · 02-08-2007, 12:37 PM

A doctor said this to me today. I went to see her because I suspect pre menopause (symptoms: insomnia, hair loss, cycle changes, mood swings, etc.)- but test came back normal - diagnosis was stress. I told her that I was working meditation, relaxation tapes etc, and she said that drugs like Effexor were the preferred frontline treatment for anxiety. I told her that i preferred natural drug free methods and would only take another drug if I was totally incapacitated. Surprisingly, she new about the difficulties with paxil but had no problem recommending a similar drug.

Homerbcool · 02-08-2007, 12:39 PM

...that is because doctors have always been the ones that we depend on for the ultimate answers, which we now know better of...so, a doctor can not, in their good consients (man I wish I could spell that)...a docotr has to have an answer..even if it means their answer is more medicine..it is what we have made them into being...make sense?

LCrawford67 · 02-08-2007, 02:53 PM

I think it's easier for doctors to prescribe this crap, because the majority of them don't take it. So, who cares? It doesn't matter to them how bad we're suffering, not their problem!

safarigal · 02-08-2007, 05:16 PM

My theapist has been better for me than any drug.

babs · 02-08-2007, 08:08 PM

Is it any wonder we are becoming a nation (or world) of medicated zombies? Doctors have become nothing but pill-pushers. I just get so mad when I hear stuff like this.

scotty · 02-08-2007, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by tcl18

A doctor said this to me today. I went to see her because I suspect pre menopause (symptoms: insomnia, hair loss, cycle changes, mood swings, etc.)- but test came back normal - diagnosis was stress. I told her that I was working meditation, relaxation tapes etc, and she said that drugs like Effexor were the preferred frontline treatment for anxiety. I told her that i preferred natural drug free methods and would only take another drug if I was totally incapacitated. Surprisingly, she new about the difficulties with paxil but had no problem recommending a similar drug.

Wyeth must have bought a nice lunch for the office!

elisa · 02-10-2007, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by tcl18

A doctor said this to me today. I went to see her because I suspect pre menopause (symptoms: insomnia, hair loss, cycle changes, mood swings, etc.)- but test came back normal - diagnosis was stress. I told her that I was working meditation, relaxation tapes etc, and she said that drugs like Effexor were the preferred frontline treatment for anxiety. I told her that i preferred natural drug free methods and would only take another drug if I was totally incapacitated. Surprisingly, she new about the difficulties with paxil but had no problem recommending a similar drug.

Did your doc mention that Effexor has a 78% withdrawal rate, higher than Paxil?

02-08-2007, 12:37 PM	#1
tcl18 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 657	Frontline treatmetn for anxiety: Effexor A doctor said this to me today. I went to see her because I suspect pre menopause (symptoms: insomnia, hair loss, cycle changes, mood swings, etc.)- but test came back normal - diagnosis was stress. I told her that I was working meditation, relaxation tapes etc, and she said that drugs like Effexor were the preferred frontline treatment for anxiety. I told her that i preferred natural drug free methods and would only take another drug if I was totally incapacitated. Surprisingly, she new about the difficulties with paxil but had no problem recommending a similar drug.

02-08-2007, 12:39 PM	#2
Homerbcool "colors outside the lines" Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 15,949	Re: Frontline treatmetn for anxiety: Effexor ...that is because doctors have always been the ones that we depend on for the ultimate answers, which we now know better of...so, a doctor can not, in their good consients (man I wish I could spell that)...a docotr has to have an answer..even if it means their answer is more medicine..it is what we have made them into being...make sense? __________________ That's one of the curses of anxiety--we make possibilities into certainties.....Tim

02-08-2007, 02:53 PM	#3
LCrawford67 Moderator "Everybody poops" Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 26,493	Re: Frontline treatmetn for anxiety: Effexor I think it's easier for doctors to prescribe this crap, because the majority of them don't take it. So, who cares? It doesn't matter to them how bad we're suffering, not their problem! __________________ aka LC aka Laurie C. Paxil, 20 mg since 1997, for IBS Two unsuccessful attempts to quit. Started tapering 11/27/06 PAXIL FREE 12/29/07 If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. ~Kevin James

02-08-2007, 05:16 PM	#4
safarigal Moderator Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Clearwater, FL Posts: 4,891	Re: Frontline treatmetn for anxiety: Effexor My theapist has been better for me than any drug. __________________ Julie Paxil free since Nov 2002! Forum Rules Withdrawal FAQ

02-08-2007, 08:08 PM	#5
babs Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 4,942	Re: Frontline treatmetn for anxiety: Effexor Is it any wonder we are becoming a nation (or world) of medicated zombies? Doctors have become nothing but pill-pushers. I just get so mad when I hear stuff like this. __________________ Babs Paxil 20mg 1994-2005 2 failed attempts to quit Tapered Jan-April 2005 Paxil-free since May 1, 2005 "Glinda the Good Witch informed her that she had the power to go home all along; all she had to do was click her heels together. Why hadn't she told Dorothy that in the first place? Because, explains Glinda, she wouldn't have believed it, she had to learn it for herself."

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