Venlafaxine

[beaglemum]

First time posting and really hoping for some advice and experiences of others!

I was diagnosed with 7mm DCIS in July, lower than low grade and (I heard) precautionary op to prevent becoming cancerous in the future. Reality was 29mm high grade, have had 2 WLEs and radio to come, and the realisation it’s actually an early cancer.  Thanks to this wonderful forum I’ve read my experience is not unusual and my conflicted feelings of great it’s been caught early to it’s awful to have had it at all, to the constant concern of what’s next from appointment to appointment and the frustration of time seeming to stand still when you’re waiting! 

Having been on HRT for 6 years (I’m 53) for horrendous hot flushes and night sweats and having to come off and the flushes returning with a vengeance has just added to this whole awful experience, I was prescribed Venlafaxine 37.5mg dose which initially helped but the flushes have returned, I’ve now been on a 75 mg dose for a week but seen little difference. Does anyone have any advice in whether persevering with this dose may still lead to the flushes reducing, or would this have happened (they dropped off within a day when I began at the lower dose), or If it can be prescribed at a higher dose and is it just trialling until the correct dose is reached? I have a review with GP next weeks to see how I’m getting on with this dose.

Thank you xx

[svedija]

Hi

i also have tried this med- dr said it takes up to 3 weeks to see full effect, from the info i had one week is not enough . there are other things to try such as  Oxybutynin. It has not worked for me(also i know someone, who thinks it is an amazing med), so i am waiting for the progesterone coil(mirena) to start with(both gyno and oncologist has finally agreed it is pretty safe and works in a lot of cases , as well as seems to improve the sleep quality ) and hoping to have some life back…