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My husband is OCD and has depression. When I met him and fell in love he was taking anafranil. Do to sexual side effects he started changing up meds. One gave him a rash, another bad headaches, and finally he settled with Effexor. Key word settled. His personality totally changed, he was short tempered, agitated, numb, careless, and just floating through life and our marraige without any real feelings. He finally asked for a separation 4 months ago because he just doesn't care about anything or anyone.
He them admitted that for the time that he has been on Effexor, over a year, he has wanted to go take a shot gun and shoot himself in the face everyday. I finally got him to go back to the Dr. and switch back to anafranil. It's only been three full weeks that he has been on anafranil and I can see a bit of a change in him, he is happier and calmer and that glow in his eyes are back. But that lasts a few days and it's like a light switch and he is that careless person again. A few days later he is ok again. We are still separated and are trying to work it out except he is so back and forth. My question is, and I know it takes a few months for one med to get out and another to take full effect, but...when the hell is he going to stablize. I know Effexor is hard to get off of but it is like he is one person totally loving and then the next day could care less. Do I just blame it on the meds or do I just chalk it up to a failed marraige? I refuse to give up and am giving him his space to figure himself out but I just want some feedback from others on this drug what the real deal is. Thanks! Posted on 10/07/09, 07:10 pm |
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my husband was on effexor as well and was suicidal. He is now off of it completely but it took a while as they will have brain zaps from withdrawal.The safest way (so says the doctor) is to taper off of it. cut it in half for a week then half it again until you're down to 37.5mg. then take it every other day then quit completely. it is a very powerful drug so i would wait and see how things are after he has been off of it completely. Also Medication does take a while to work fully so he may not feel better right away. unfortunately no doctor knows what will work for a patient as each person is different so it is basically trial and error. i would be patient until he is off of the effexor and has just the anafranil in his system for a while and see what happens. 
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