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[delight]

Dear readers, people who clicked on my name on network, etc,

Today my neurologist decided she really wanted to be able to make triptans accessible to me because of concerns about my abortive therapy availability. This means she has proposed switching from escitalopram, the 6th in a series of antidepressants I've taken for a long time and failed, to effexor, which ... I only trialed for three weeks and then got switched and was about sixteen at the time.

Because it's not an SSRI it's apparently triptan-friendly.

I'm confident I'd stay on Wellbutrin because I need that for executive functioning things too, the escitalopram is largely there just to counter the anxiety that the Wellbutrin makes worse, but --

But, I know quite a few people who read my DW at times take venlafaxine, so please tell me what you think of it, what the onset period was like, how it works in comparison to other things, &c? Much appreciated in advance!

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[weaver]

oh hello, I can help! I spent about a year, maaaybe two? or three? on Efexor, and I did not have any major problems. It really does let you know in no uncertain terms if you miss a dose, but I also came off it by just ... kinda forgetting more days than I didn't, and then deciding I didn't want it any more, and I didn't have any significant side effects for that, either. I can't really compare it to much - I think I tried Lovan and ... Cymbalta maybe? is that one? but nothing had any effect until Efexor.

I don't know that it did a lot with my executive functioning; I was then and am still absolutely balls at doing anything until it becomes so urgent I have no choice, etc etc. But that also wasn't a thing I even knew wasn't normal back then, and wasn't on my medical radar at all.

I hope it works out well for you!