Effexor experience- advice needed
I have been on SSRIs some years back (Lexapro), gained a bunch of weight, didnt give aflying fuck about anyone or anything, couldnt orgasm. But hey wasn't depressed!
My job has recently made me very very anxious and depressed and I have decided to try going back on antidepressants but was deadset on avoiding SSRIs. I was going between Wellbutrin and Effexor. My psych said Effexor is the better one of the two since it acts on the depression and anxiety. She also gave me some benzos to manage the increase in anxiety effexor can apparently cause short term
What ensued was the following
Week 1: complete emotional flatness to everything. lowkey loved it but not forever
week 1.5: headache, sweats, high then crash (like with Ritalin)
Week 2: Extreme suicidality, relied on triple doze of benzos and had people monitor me so I wouldn't take more pills. Multiple panic attacks
Week 3: Taking propanolol for anxiety at night, have anxiety every morning after i take effexor and have added wellbutrin (which surprisingly makes me less anxiou who'd say) to come with how shit effexor makes me feel. I'm tired on it but anxious as fuck
My psych is going to be 100% convinced I need to give it more time to act and that these are normal side effects. What does Reddit think?