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Re: Help! Anyone have problems with really bad dreams/night sweats on anti-depressants!exor
      10/31/04 05:43 PM
BarbaraS

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Sorry to respond a few days later and I haven't read the other responses to your post. I can't read close to a thousand e-mails.

My doctor took me off Effexor due to the nightmares. My were so vivid that I felt like I was losing my mind and getting little sleep didn't help.

Effexor works in the central nervous system, which has a higher rate for causing nightmares. Weaning off a drug you just started isn't that bad - your doctor should wean you off slowly and start you on a new anti-depressant before you completley wean off the drug.

Maybe you are not dealing with depression as much anxiety. If anxiety is more of a problem than other anti-depressants work better. I take paxil and do very well on it. There is a new Paxil call Paxil CR, which is suppose to be easier on the stomach.

Hope this info. helps and I didn't repeat any advice you already recieved.

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* Help! Anyone have problems with really bad dreams/night sweats on anti-depressants!
Vicam
10/28/04 08:39 PM
* Re: Help! Anyone have problems with really bad dreams/night sweats on anti-depressants!exor
BarbaraS
10/31/04 05:43 PM
* Thanks Guys - and anti-ds vs. anti-anxiety therapy
Vicam
10/30/04 10:53 AM
* Re: Thanks Guys - and anti-ds vs. anti-anxiety therapy
BarbaraS
10/31/04 05:46 PM
* Kelly
BL
10/30/04 06:37 AM
* Geez...
UrbanRain
10/29/04 10:10 PM
* Oh yeah...
atomic rose
10/30/04 03:23 AM
* Thank you, Rose.
UrbanRain
10/30/04 09:24 AM
* Re: Help! Anyone have problems with really bad dreams/night sweats on anti-depressants!
heather7476
10/29/04 04:41 AM
* Same here...
atomic rose
10/29/04 05:01 AM
* Me too
cailin
10/29/04 05:47 AM
* LOL!!
atomic rose
10/29/04 07:00 AM
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heather7476
10/29/04 07:03 AM
* Oh yep!
Linz
10/29/04 02:48 AM
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UrbanRain
10/29/04 12:29 AM
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