Does alcohol really counteract depression medication?
Monday, July 26th, 2010 at
10:33 pm
jhall20032003 asked:
I am on Effexor and am experiencing several symptoms of depression but I do drink several times a week so I wanted to know if it’s because of the alcohol or I am becoming immune to the medication (which has happened to me before.) Thanks!
I am on Effexor and am experiencing several symptoms of depression but I do drink several times a week so I wanted to know if it’s because of the alcohol or I am becoming immune to the medication (which has happened to me before.) Thanks!
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Filed under: Depression
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yes because ancohol effects mood
You need to seek a counselor that will not put you on medication. You need to stop drinking. If you do not your liver will decay. You need to seek counseling to help you mood not drugs (alcohol is a drug).
Alcohol is a depressent, so yes, it’s bad to drink if you are on antidepressants. If you’ve been on other meds, you obviously have somewhat of a problem with depression, but you aren’t gonna get better by drinking or doing any other drugs not prescribed to you, or taken not as prescribed.
It’s the alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant so yes it counteracts the effects of effector. Be careful, it’s very dangerous to drink while on effexor.
alcohol is depressant. it can affect
avoid alcohol
alcohol is a downer. Alcohol causes depression.
Well, Effexor’s prescribing information should state that alcohol shouldn’t be mixed with it. I have heard psychiatrists say that alcohol inactivates Paxil. If I was dealing with depression, I wouldn’t be drinking while trying to treat it with medication. Alcohol withdrawal can cause depression as well.
I’m not sure how alcohol effects effexor, but it probably isnt smart to take with booz, if the bottle says not to.
ask whoever gave it to you.
some medication just builds tolerance by itself, and you might need a hire dose.
just make sure your carefull, and if your allowed to drink, have a ***** time.
yes. and its also dangerous because it will both depress your respiration and it could kill you.
I don’t care what type of antidepressant you are on if you drink several times a week none of them will work, none.
This is actually relatively recent material in the scientific literature. The general consensus for quite some time was that moderate drinking occasionally combined with most antidepressants was acceptable – provided there were no interactions with the medication, and the alcohol isn’t being abused or complicating anything else.
More recently some fairly high quality material came out(within the last year or so) showing alcohol consumed at as low as a single alcoholic drink per week radically lowers the potency of antidepressants – not as much as some things, but it’s still cutting their efficacy in about half. From what I recall of the data it didn’t appear to be dose dependent (ie, more alcohol makes the antidepressants work more poorly) – the material they came up with showed that it was -any- consumption of alcohol created a moderate reduction in antidepressant efficacy.
So basically, the answer to your question is a yes.