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If I had done that I might have saved bits of my soul. I was actually going to tell them that when I went to the hospital the day after the tetracycline reaction (my mother wanted me to go there for something else for the acne and see if the tetra was reacting with the Celexa, but they said that for my minor problem it was a 8-hour wait and so my mother said "Let's just go", and all I had to do besides was just call the psych department and ask for more Celexa, and I had so amny days to do this, but all that time I just didn't! Too panicked, ironically!

im on viagra and morphine.

I was put on Effexor and It worked wonderfully.
I was a complete mess and now I'm much better.

I have taken effexor for a long time I don't even remember how long. It worked fine for that time until I got in a discussion/fight with my brother and we had to increase the dose. Then the medicine (effexor) didn't work well and besides that I was experiencing some strange and disturbing side effects like nausea. So effexor was replaced by Pristic (I guess Pristic is a new drug) which was supposed to be superior to Effexor. Well it also worked well for a time but I got myself in a huge depression and now I am replacing it for Wellbutrin. Hope it works fine.

I was on effexor back in 1999-2002. it worker for a while, but then it stopped.When it was wearing off, i felt very suicidal and was even more depressed. I was never suicidal, never mind that depressed. It also caused me to not be able to concentrate my urine and I was having trouble with my kidneys. Then i got off it and the problem went away.
The lexapro made me a lot worse, where I was angry all the time and my thinking was way off. When it weaned off, I was so depressed and anxious, and I was practically "ret*d". i could not even do anything at all.
Pretty much, when I was medications, my thinking and learning and everything was so badly compromised, that i was not able to a single task. i could do the basics, like take care of myself, but I was not able to work,learn, and/or do anything that I used to do before I was on any medications. I started medications at age 20, and I stopped at 29. before age 20, i was extremely intelligent honor student, who would take on the world. When I was on those meds. I could not even take on anything.I had no motivation to even get out of bed, never mind get a job, go to school or live or even have any life.
Now that I am no longer on any medications, I am extremely highly intelligent again and have my extremely high motivation back, that I am able to learn and do more things than I ever was used to, even before I was on medications. That can also be because I am 30 now and back then i was 18-19. I am going back to school to be a Histology Technician, want a full time job, a big house, and I want be a single mother(relationships are out of the question because I do not have the skills that a relationship requires).

Tried citalopram a couple of years ago. It did zero, as far as I could tell- no positive effects, side effects or withdrawal. I still think I'm depressed or something of that nature (and have got worse), but the doctor didn't pay much attention the first time around so I'm not sure he's the right person to see.

Tried citalopram a couple of years ago. It did zero, as far as I could tell- no positive effects, side effects or withdrawal. I still think I'm depressed or something of that nature (and have got worse), but the doctor didn't pay much attention the first time around so I'm not sure he's the right person to see.

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I was on Effexor back in my teens. Turned me into a complete lunatic who was unusually aggressive, irritable, and outright cruel in my reactions to even the slightest provocation.

I'm currently taking Lexapro and Lamictal. Not sure if they're really working. Some days are way up, enough that I think I'm going to be ok, and others are so low (like today) that I'm close to suicide.

I first took cipramil (citalapram), thn I was on Effexor for 2 years, my side effects were a feeling of not really being here, hot flushes, blood pressure going crazy, very low at times and racing fast at others. I quit them about 8 - 10 months ago, threw them in the trash. Nothing seems to stop my major depressive attacks when they come on.

Effexor saved my life. I'd gotten to the point where I was a suicidal wreck. It let me be myself again. I took it for 2 1/2 years, and got off it in 2005.

Wow... my ancient thread is back!


I`m on Celexa again and maybe it`s doing something to me and maybe it`s not. Psygirl6, I was close to your age when I started on meds; I was 19; but the Celexa actually made me more motivated and ready to take everything on, not less. But the other meds (the antipsychotics, anyway, and I was mostly on antipsychotics) made me less motivated and I couldn`t do anything just like you; nothing at all, and I lay in bed for months when I was on Risperdal.

I take 300 mg of Wellbutrin a day, the only problem I have with it is that if I forget about it, it f**ks with my mood and I end up in a really bad temper.

I was on Effexor for about 6 months. I dont think it really did anything. Then I switched to Celexa and experienced a very severe allergic reaction. I guess I just have bad luck with drugs.

Wellbutrin had the exact same effect on me, but in addition to the symptoms you mentioned, I also developed tendency to talk to myself and I would get an absolutely horrid sensation throughout my entire body from time to time.