im on effexor and ativan?
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Just don't drink heavily. If you limit yourself to three 12 oz. beers or less you should be fine.
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The risperdal is usually coupled with the anti-depressant to stop you from becoming manic. Ativan is addictive but it's really not that hard to quit them when the time comes.
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I have found that Xanax works wonders when I have to fly. Talk to your doctor...
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seroquel although a new anti psychotic, made me feel like a zombie. I have been through so many diagnosis's over the past several months and low and behold I am no longer bi-polar 2!  Coming off it was a relief, I do however miss the sleep. While hospitalized they forgot to give it to me for a week and strangely enough the effects were minor.  Ask your doctor for a sleep med if only for a short term to get yourself back on track. The new ones are great but expensive and better yet non addictive... but then again they said effexor wasn't either.  Get some sleep meds.
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it would help to know the reason for your being on prozac....i was one of the first people to go on prozac many years ago......i have ocd and depression....i started at 20 mg and at the end of 10 yrs was on 120mg and had excellent results but some side afeects such as weight gain and low libido so i went off of it and tried luvox....DISASTER!..am now back on prozac 20mg...doing well and am loking forward to increasing dosage.i say go for it....
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crystal-hun i believe u need to c your doc asap these meds r serious and they know how to dispense them just b upfront with him and tell him all u feel dont hide nuttin from him dont think theres to many folks that are not on any antidepressant's drugs in this day and age...good luck happy holidays
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Try Wellbutrin XL, got of the other Zoloft b/c of the same thing, and the new med works good. Just keep an eye on it and switch slowly, reducing one while adding the other.
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Everyone reacts differently to combinations of meds. I take clonazapam and Paxil. I used to sleep really well,but it seems like the clonazapam or Paxil is disrupting my sleep lately and I always feel tired. I have an appt. to see my doctor next week. I suggest if you are having problems with your meds,to consult your physician and let him/her know what you are experiencing. You say,shut your brain down? Does this mean that you practice clearing your mind before going to sleep for the night? I do this also and it seems to help. Do you see a psychologist or psychiatrist to help you with this? If not I would suggest doing this also,as they can make you a CD or Tape,to help talk you through the steps at night. The calmness in their voice,helps too. Good luck with this. ZOYA\n\nEdit: I just read the other person's answer and please do not stop or start taking any of your meds without consulting your doctor first. Clonazapam is an addictive drug,that has serious and potentially dangerous side affects if stopped abruptly.
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i have a very similar problem. and i am being serious about this. i take Valium and klonopin, there is a big change. i do not take them everyday. you will have to talk to a doctor to get them. you might as well talk to a psychiatrist who knows new types of medications available. i found out my family doctor really did not know what he was talking about. and all of that happy feelings, deep breathing stuff did nothing for me except make me angry
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Prozac.  not kidding.
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Ativan (Lorazepam) is an anti-anxiety agent (benzodiazepines,mild tranquilizer) used for the relief of anxiety, agitation and irritability, to relieve insomnia, to calm people with mania / schizophrenia and intravenously as a sedative and for nervous tension or to relieve anxiety prior to surgery.\n\nYour second question (re FDA):  Well, they did tell you what chemical ingredient it was, so I suppose packaging of medicine is acually no different....
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do you mean ativan? if so, it is a prescription medication with a variety of uses, including anti-anxiety, anti-convulsant, muscle relaxant, etc. talk to your doctor, and check out ativan.com if you want the drug company's official information.
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These are questions only your Dr. can answer properly, however, if I were in your shoes, I would do some research on the different meds available for what you're experiencing.\n\nThere are mainly 3 neurotransmitters involved in treating depression, where one of the three needs to be regulated about 80% of the time to fix you.  They are neuropinephrine, dopamine and serotonin.  Effexor is a multiple reuptake inhibitor, which effects the reuptake of two neurotransmitters, namely dopamine and neuropinephrine.  At this point, if it's not making you feel better after 10 months 1) You're not targeting the right neurotransmitter (you may need to switch to a serotonin reuptake inhibitor like lexepro) or 2) The reuptake in Effexor is not working for you, which is not uncommon and you may need to switch to another MRI like Cymbalta or Wellbutrin.  \n\nThe constant fatigue is a normal side effect for Effexor, however, you should get past it in 2 weeks to a month.  If it's come back 10 months into taking it, chances are it stopped working.  Again, this is common for reuptake inhibitors.\n\nFrom what I've researched, Effexor is the hardest antidpressant to get off of.  75mg is a very small dosage, where you can take up to 375mg/day.  It may be a good idea to quit now and try something else.  The discontinuation dosage is 35mg per week; so if you increase the dosage and it still doesn't work, it will take you longer to get off of it.  However, you may need a stronger dose, based on what you discussed, but that is for you and your Dr. to decide.\n\nThese are just all theories, based on some research I've done on antidepressants - I always research drugs before I take them, based on my diagnosis.  At this point,  you haven't described your diagnosis, aside from depression and anxiety.  In most cases a simple SSRI combined with a theraputic does of a benzodiazepine (Ativan, Xanax, Klonopin) usually do the trick.  If you have Unipolar/Bipolar, schitzoafective, BPD, it's a whole nother ball game.\n\nI hope this helps and good luck.
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Get proffesional help at once if ur dr wont help get another TELL him exactly what u just wrote and ask for a stronger drug, like xanax or maybe prozac
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Yep - I've got it too.\n\nI used to take Effexor, but it killed my libido and the withdrawal effects are super-awful (I now kind of understand drug addiction - vomiting, dizziness, the whole she-bang) I took a lot, though, 150mg so that didn't help.  The med helped the anxiety a ton, though. So much that I thought I was better and decided to wean myself (bad idea - don't do it - you will be sorry 3 months later and have to spend another 3 months getting something new into your system)\n\nI am now starting Prozac.  So far the only bad side effect is I can't take it before bed or I don't sleep well.  It is too soon to tell if it is working - so it isn't helping much yet.  Hopefully soon.  \n\nGood luck.  Go to a psychiatrist - they can prescribe meds and have much more background than a family physician so they will have experience with lots of meds.
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I used Efexor and I would say after about 2-3 weeks it should be totally out of your system. However if you are having serious withdrawel symptoms, get thee to a doctor pronto and check everything is OK. I didn't get any - well none I noticed anyway - so I can't help you with that but I can say being off meds is the most liberating thing ever. My mind and my moods are my own again - hurrah!!
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i work in a pharmacy and i constantly see people prescribed some type of SSRI, selective seretonin re-uptake inhibitor, along with some type of benzodiazepine, which ares anxolytics.\n\nSSRIs such as \nProzac - Fluoxetine \nZoloft - Sertraline\nWellbutrin - Buproprion\n\nin combonation with benzodiazepines such as\nXanax - alprazolam\nValium - Diazepam\nAtivan - Lorazepam\n\nthese combonations occur quite frequently, you should definately ask your doctor or local pharmacist if there are any certain reactions you should know about, but from my experience in a pharm, those 2 mixes occur all the time.