Bayside, Regarding your concerns about your medication and dosage, please keep in mind that everyone is an individual and will be on different dosages. From your posting it sounds like you are questioning your doctor - if you are unsure of their actions, your pharmacist can be a really great resource to find the information you are looking for. Then you could go back to your doctor with the pharmacists' findings if you still had any concerns about the doctor's prescribed dosage. Please keep us posted. Melanie ___________________________________ The Depression Center Support Team This message was edited by Melanie on 8-27-04 @ 10:17 PM

----- Original Message ----- : support@depressioncenter.net Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:19 PM Subject: Meds I just wanted some advise about my meds I wasn't sure if I should put it on the discussion board or not. I am currently taking 375mg effexor-xr, 3pills of (7.5mg )zopiclone, and 6 topamax 25mg every day. I have recently be on the net and do some reading and have not heard good things about effexor. by the way I have been taking this for about two years except for the topamax, that I have been taking for the last couple of months to counter act my significant 80 pound weight gain. Just looking for advise, I made an appointment with my DM but we did discuss this before I kind of feel like he is getting tired of me because I am still not feeling better. And now I want to go off the effexor because of side effects. I am also in a realationship and basicly have had no interest in sex for two years, not any relation at all, that is starting to get hard for my partner to be as wonder as he has been for so long. I also recently got into a car accident and feel the medication had something to do with it. I having been feeling beating by I wasn't trying to commit suicide, but I blacked out or feel a sleep at 8:30am in the morning going to by flowers at the local gardening place after driving my husband to work, and drove off the road and off a 8 foot bank and drove straight into a telephone pole. It was just me and my two little dogs and not I was not trying to kill myself by of course everyone thought I was or try to imply I tried. Any way the stroy goes on and on , I think it was the meds. I think I should change to something different. I becase of the side effects I am afraid and think maybe I should go into the hostipal. I am not sure and confused on what to do. Bayside Thanks Bayside