Re: Well here we go... 150mg
Originally Posted by
Paradise10
This is really hard but I am determined to try this before I ask for a medication review as it seems every year I am having to increase the dose. I do wonder how effective the ven actually is for me as I never had to do this on Citalopram and then ven has never really improved my mood.
It might be that venlafaxine is not the right med for you, Ava, but it could also be that the dose has been inadequate all along too. It only begins to function as a SNRI at doses around 225mg/day, albeit being still only a weak noradrenaline/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor.
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