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Effexor
by DH Bill, Jan 26, 2004 12:00AM
Has anyone experienced or have input on withdrawal symptons from stopping effexor cold turkey or tapering off slowly.
BTW I got a call from a branch of my insurance co. back east today telling me they didn't have enough info for the approval of my next 24 weeks of tx. I told them to talk to my Doc as I thought it was all taken care of and they didn't even have the docs name right so I gave info to them. Called nurse and she said didn't know anything about it. Asked if she found out if reduced dose of ribaviron was ok and she said it SHOULD be. Has anyone else been prescribed more than 1200 mg per day?
I HAVE LOST ALL CONFIDENCE IN THIS DOCTOR AND HIS STAFF!!!!!
BTW I got a call from a branch of my insurance co. back east today telling me they didn't have enough info for the approval of my next 24 weeks of tx. I told them to talk to my Doc as I thought it was all taken care of and they didn't even have the docs name right so I gave info to them. Called nurse and she said didn't know anything about it. Asked if she found out if reduced dose of ribaviron was ok and she said it SHOULD be. Has anyone else been prescribed more than 1200 mg per day?
I HAVE LOST ALL CONFIDENCE IN THIS DOCTOR AND HIS STAFF!!!!!
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I just had my first PCR test & after 25 weeks of Tx ... results next week, nervous but confident the Dragons butt is kicked haha .. try to stay sane Bill ... ...Steve...
I've only been on treatment 4 days and had a "heart recing" episode last night which lasted about 10 minutes.......180 pulse which slowly dropped to 90. Anyone else experience this?
I was talking with my Dr last night about which AD to use during treatment. We went over a list of ones he uses. I asked him about Effexor and he informed me that Effexor was in the catgory of the harder SSRI to withdraw from. Make sure you do a slow taper when it is time to come of of the Effexor.
God Bless.
Tony Z
RE: RIBAVIRIN: Dose reduction is the number one cause of relapse. Today's thinking is that it's better to cut back on interferon than ribavirin, if dose reduction is absolutely necessary. If your doc is talking about reducing ribavirin, it would mean either psych or blood side effects.
In the case of blood-related side effects, your doctor should be aggressive with anemia or low white cell counts. Procrit and Neupogen are generally used for this. If you're talking low platelets, dose reduction may be unavoidable.
Even though ribavirin is weight-based, I've always heard two doses for nonresponders - 1200 if you're over 165 lbs, 1000 if under. These days fewer docs are taking chances with anything under 1000 ribavirin.
Just keep in mind - interferon sucks as monotherapy when it comes to SVR. That's why we take ribavirin.
Miles Keaton Andrew
Positive thoughts your way, Annette
www.patientsarepowerful.org
I think it is back to normal now.