I just received an email from another individual (that makes a total of 7 that I have personally heard from) who told me "his story" in regards to what happened to him on Effexor. The Effexor made him an alcoholic! The number 7, is only the people that *I* have heard from. I have read much (on others) that this has also happened to and there is also research that documents that the Effexor (yes .. AND Mirapex) does this.
I think I mentioned sometime earlier in this thread that I posted my H's situation on a psychology forum. That is where I initially read about the terrible side effects of the prescription cocktail that my H's psychiatrist put him on. It rings true in my H's situation in that this happened (big time alcohol consumption) ONLY after H had been on these meds for just short of six months.
I think it is just way too much of a coincidence that my H did not become an alcoholic until AFTER he was on these meds for that six months.
In a situation such as this, whereby (IMO) my H "can't see the forest from the trees" is this really just HIS problem? There are people out there that have written to me that once they get off "the" meds they were perfectly fine.
Do I hang in there (at least until the end of the month when we see his doc again) and be there for H as his advocate? (I'm sure that H does not see it like this.)
My H thinks that he is on the "silver bullet" formula for depression right now. Apparently that is how he understood whatever his psychiatrist told him. He thinks that there is nothing else that will help him (??) and would not consider going off these meds UNLESS his doc was strongly advocating it. So (imo) he's done .. UNLESS I intervene.
At H's next appt. with this pyschiatrist, I''m thinking that my plan will be to tell him that H DID cut way back on his drinking, but that his outlook is still terrible. (I'm sure that H will agree with me.) Maybe THEN this doc will change his meds ..?
