Results showed that discontinuation of any SNRI was associated with withdrawal symptoms, with the highest prevalence linked to venlafaxine and desvenlafaxine. Serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’m taking an antidepressant and am concerned that when my doctor instructs me to quit taking it I’ll go through withdrawal. Can this happen? What can I expect? It can happen, but ...

Medically reviewed by Alex Yampolsky, PharmD Key Takeaways Pristiq and Effexor are both SNRIs prescribed to treat depression ...

When Gina O’Brien decided she no longer needed drugs to quell her anxiety and panic attacks, she followed doctor’s orders by slowly tapering her dose of the antidepressant Paxil. The gradual ...

Dear People's Pharmacy: I have a caution about Effexor, which I took for hot flashes. I had to go out of town suddenly and ran out of pills because I couldn't get the prescription refilled before ...

Philadelphia, PA, May 21, 2002 –Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE), announced today that 67 percent of patients with depression maintained remission of their symptoms, a critical ...

Depression is one disorder that can completely change a person's life even before it is diagnosed. A human who could once be the most joyous person in the room could suddenly be so shut off that ...

Doctors across Britain will soon be told to warn millions of patients taking antidepressants that ending treatment can cause “severe” adverse effects and last much longer than previously advised. “We ...

Ryan Yorke, now 21, started taking Paxil after an out-of-the-blue panic attack his freshman year of high school. At first it worked great. But he gained weight and had other problems -- he started ...

Madison, NJ, February 11, 2003 -- Wyeth (NYSE:WYE) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved EFFEXOR (R) XR (venlafaxine HCl) for the treatment of patients with social ...