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Does Ativan Help With The Side Effects When You Start Taking Effexor?
I’ve been on Ativan for Anxiety/Panic…and my therapist wants to start me on Effexor this week, but I’m concernced about the side effects.
Will/Should the Ativan assist me through some of the rougher initial side effects?
Anyone experience this combo?
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Effexor is an antidepressant. Anxiety and depression go hand in hand, so the mix of the two is extremely common. Side effects you can expect from Effexor are:
Dry mouth
Decreased sex drive/difficulty to orgasm
Insomnia
Weight gain/loss
Dizzyness if you miss a dose
Weakness/lethargy
These are typical side effects for antidepressants. If you are getting any of these from your Ativan, which is usually a pretty side effect free drug, this may not be for you. I’d recommend getting a 2 week dose, and if you don’t like it, ask to be switched to another anti depressant, there are tons of them out there.
No it won’t assist you in side affects,You therapist thoul slowly ween you off the ativan & add effexor. The goal of the experiment is to see if effexor by itself will help your anxiety. If it works – great. If not, go on to the next plan
The only real side effect symptoms that bothered me were headaches,sexual dysfunction and profuse sweating when it wasn’t even hot. All the ativan in the world isn’t going to help that.
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