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Oh, ADDled- the never-ending quest to feel “normal”. My life. God how I love those rare days where I don’t give a crap and actually feel comfortable with who I am. Ah well, it’s all about the journey, right?
Serzone. What lovely memories (insert sarcasm here). I haven’t met anyone face to face who remembers that joy. I remember being in my then-boyfriend’s parents’ living room trying to play some intellectual game, and things weren’t moving so quickly in my intellect (no doubt also due to the lovely depressive symptoms) but that was during the time that you tried an AD for 4-6 weeks (!!!!!). I quickly learned that was ridiculous. I wonder if that drug worked for anyone?
Regarding effexor and drug companies- I know they are shady in many ways and of course profit comes first. And you are taking a certain amount of risk with every foreign substance you put in your body. But…I am so grateful for effexor; it saved my life. And I have been taking it more or less continuously for the past 12 years with varying dosages (i.e. gradually tapering off as low as I could when pregnant/breastfeeding). I have been fortunate in being able to maintain a therapeutic dosage that worked and only needed to go up when life or hormonal stress got in the way. And I will happily take several months to go down on the dosage because of the benefits this drug gives to me. And I’m not writing this in any way to criticize your experience, just to provide my version of a slightly different perspective.
(I love your disclaimer!)
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