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Venlafaxine 2016-12-21 Person 2 5 0

My father was prescribed this drug for anxiety and depression, but mostly for the anxiety. It made little difference to the anxiety but his side effects included sleep disturbance, increased heart rate, agitation and light headedness. After two months of taking the medication he decided to taper off which took 3 months of dizziness, and all the above side effects. His friend was on the same medication, had a heart attack and then was advised to cut the medication immediately as it has been associated with serious health risks. From what i have seen this medication should be reserved for very extreme cases and there should have been other medications tried before my father was given this one.