EFEXOR WEIGHTGAIN HATE IT

[bumble24]

Hi
ive been on exfexor 150mg now down to 75g  want to get off it due to the weight gain that is making me MORE depressed than i was before hand!! LOL aghhhh! bloody meds! i have found the withdrawals HARD man - dizzy - feel stoned etc - very hard to get stuff done...is there a MED that is a WEIGHT STABILIZER i could try - either DURING my withdrawal period or AFTER i have fully come off efexor?? i have been told efexor is KNOWN to put on weight.... & soome General anxiety disorder meds are known to NOT put on weight - can ANYONE HELP!?!? anyone had - done had this happen- putting on weight is a pain in the *** cos i feel so down about it.... any advice peoples? im new to this forum - im from AUSTRALIA & would LOVE to find someone HERE that actually is an EXPERT on this stuff- they are all so HAPPY to dispense it but - alot of docs have no idea what they are doingto our lives....

[BJ_1]

I too was on Effexor for over a year and put on approx 100lbs before the dr took me off.  I'm on Cymbalta right now and one of its side effects is weight loss, so I've taken off 65 of the 100 so far.  I'm not sure of the withdrawal since I took an OD and came off it in one nite.  But otherwise I can certainly relate.

[Brenndy]

Welcome,
You've come to the correct arena.
There are some of us who are currently forming an "Against-Effexor" posse.  I will be happy to speak with you via PM/email regarding this medication and all its deleterious side-effects, as well as why psychiatrists all over the globe have, in a jokingly fashion, coined it Side-Effexor (not funny doctors!).
Please PM//email me and join our united mission to have this drug removed from the world trade market by the FDA.