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--- home:othertreatments:antidepressants [08.25.2017] – [Notes and comments] sallieq
+++ home:othertreatments:antidepressants [04.13.2020] – [Types of anti-anxiety agents and antidepressants] sallieq
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   * venlafaxine (Effexor, Effexor XR, PMS-Venlafaxine XR, Venlafaxine XR)
+<blockquote>I became increasingly more and more irritable and angry on St. John's Wort, and I kept raising the dose, trying to compensate. When I finally got up to the maximum dose after about 9 months on it, and figured out it was the St. John's Wort that was responsible for my anger and irritability, I stopped it cold turkey. And ended up in a psychiatric ward two days later from being suicidal, with very disjointed and slow thinking processes, and a lot of confusion/brain fog and severe depression.
+//L.J.//</blockquote>
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 <blockquote>Brand name Valium product does not seem to be addictive in our cohort, whereas there are problems weaning off some of the generics.</blockquote>
+==== Valium ====
+<blockquote>[[https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/valium|valium]] produces anxiolytic effect and CNS depression by stimulating gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors. Relaxes skeletal muscles of spine by inhibiting polysynaptic afferent pathways. Controls seizures by enhancing presynaptic inhibition.</blockquote>
+It is okay for patients to take:- Only the brand name, Valium, has seemed to work for patients with Th1 inflammation.
+  * half the 2mg (white tablet, the one with the V cut from the center) seems to often be enough to reduce anxiety and calm restless muscles.
+  *
+  * stay away from the generic diazepam and the higher strengths.
+  *
+  * make sure your doctor orders Valium 2mg to use “as directed” and writes “no substitutions” on the prescription; Valium is usually taken 1-4 times per day.
 ==== Lithium  ====

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