I'm just curious... sometimes these things can be hard to answer... i was on celexa 1st, which worked great, until it seemed to wear out after only a few months.

then i tried effexor, with only mild success.

now i am a few days on wellbutrin...

for now, id hafta say celexa...

I voted for Cymbalta and it didn't registure?  LOL!  Looks like your med is winning.  

well, that sucks...
i wouldnt know how to fix it, so...
i guess my experiment in startin polls is a failure! :o(

I voted WB. I am on a misture, and I wouldn't want to give up any of them. But if I did have to, WB is the one I wouldn't want to do without.

My vote registered just fine...maybe it is the post-er, Jkm!! ;)

Nothing, I mean no a/d has worked as fast, as good or as long as when I was on Effexor XR...
I had been up and down for 2 1/2 years, all different kinds of a/d's...I'd be okay for a few weeks, then back down. Then I went to a psychdoc and she put me on Effexor, and no kidding, within 5 days it was like I had never been depressed. I mean, I was my old, predepression days. That lasted for about 13 months - then BAM! Like walking off the edge of a cliff.

Celexa, Paxil and Prozac all worked well for me, but they pooped out. It was almost six years of searching for another AD that would work, and I may have found it in Cymbalta.

Prozac works great for me when I abstain from drinking.  It's also (imo) one of the safest anti-depressants since it has a half-life of 45 days.  This means it's the most gradual of impact within the brain.  So, it won't zap your brain like effexor or the other antidepressants that work way too quickly.

NO Antidepressants work for me... You left out NONE... :(  Some people... especially Bipolars, can't take AD's because they bring on mania....  So I would say, NONE, but I can't... alas. :;):

Zoloft...hands down for depression and anxiety...but that is just me....I'm also BP, so I can't take it for more than a couple weeks max...but that is all it takes for me.
    Lamictal is not too bad either; but is not classed as an AD.

voted wellbutrin, this is my SECOND time on it (so i know it works). you want to know the funny and STUPID reason i stopped taking it the first time? it made my cigarettes taste bad. in other words it messed up my smoking experience so i stopped taking WB! hoping this time i have enough sense to stay on it since it does help me feel better and doesnt take away my sex like all those other choices did. i also did not gain weight on WB like i did with all the others.

venlafaxine helped me,but i had to stop it due to severe night-sweats.

I voted Effexor. At 150mg I started feeling slightly better. The 75mg didn't do anything for me. I was on Zoloft before and that didn't do the trick either. On the contrary, especially in the beginning I was feeling anxious and my chest hurt (like I couldn't breathe properly). But those are common side effects I think. I gave the Zoloft about 12 weeks. My doc switched me to effexor then. After a while I felt worse again though and now I'm combining effexor with remeron. After about 2 weeks I felt pretty good. Last few weeks I'm feeling a bit low again (but pschotherapy could have something to do with that. I kinda went from emotionally numb to being overwhelmed by everything that was hiding inside of me). Seeing my pdoc next week so we'll see I guess.

I voted for effexor but getting up to therapeutic level was a S.O.B. Now, it has been working great. Paxil was o.k. but the sexual side effects I hated.

i voted efexor as thats been effective when combined with lithium

tried fluoxetine before and it didn't do anything

I,m another one that has to say no anti,d works for me after about 6 months giz

Effexor, as evil as it is, helped me tremendously. Horrible, horrible side-effects and withdrawals (excuse me, "discontinuation effects"), but definitely the only one that did what it was supposed to while I was on it. (I took it for over 4 years at various doses -- from 37.5 all the way to 300.)

Hi guys, I was on prozac for awhile and then I asked my doctor if I an switch meds and then the put me on 30 mgs of Remerom (Mirtazapine). I been on Remeron (Mirtazapine) for 6 months now and I like it better then Prozac. It does what I need it to do for depression, sleep aide, and stress relieve, plus... the gain weight side effects...works wonders for me.

This post has been edited by hbircharo: Feb 12 2006, 11:21 PM

I have to agree with blackcloud, venlafaxine has been the only med I have tried that has really made me better- but it does have horrible side effects and withdrawal is a nightmare. I was on 300mg for a couple of years and during that time I just felt "normal". The only problem was it completely abrogated my sex drive and eventually my husband had an affair and left me
So now I have been on a year long voyage of disc