Are you a medical professional who prescribes Effexor?

You should have your medical license revoked you piece of ****.

My fiancee is staring down the barrel of trying to ween herself off this stuff and has been a couple days without it because we're unable to find the bottle in the mess of a house we're remodeling. The insurance company won't even cover it anymore (they put up a bitch fit about this bottle as it was) and it's monthly cost without insurance is in the hundreds. Just reading the stories of people out there has us very anxious about facing this period. If we're reading about all this crap, how do doctors not know? And the medical community wonders why people are turning to the internet and their own research... PEOPLE WOULD RATHER ATTEMPT TO SELF-MEDICATE THAN TAKE YOUR POOR-ASS ADVICE! GET A DAMN CLUE!!!

I think a combination of the prescription industry and laziness has contributed in a large way to the uselessness of doctors. It's all about how many people they can fit in in a day, and handing out meds like it's goddamn candy.

As a final note, I know there are a lot of kids on this site and I KNOW the medical industry just completely gets off on diagnosing things like ADD and depression (especially to gradeschoolers). If you're taking Effexor and haven't done research, you should really do some research on it, show your parents, and talk to your doctor. How does garbage like this even get approved? Someone at Wyerth must have really been greasing palms...

Pisses me off how the drug companies:

1) Lobby Congress

2) Pay kickbacks to doctors for prescribing their stuff

3) have more money than sense

Medicine for depression and anxiety have a lot of sides effect because they increase the level of serotonin in the brain. An increase of any neuro-mediator cause dependence. When patient cut-off their medicine, they suffer.

That's the most common that basic doctor (even specialist) make. Because they want to treat w/o knowing the consequences.

Her doctor was a generalist, a neurologist or a psychiatrist?

Seriously, the best person you should visit for problem like that is a good neurologist, not psychiatrist.

Does she take IMAO? (I hope not)