We started with 2 weeks with 37.5 mg every day, then switched to double the dosis (75 mg) when I told my psychiatrist that there was no noticeable change in my behaviour. About the time I began taking the double dosis, I noticed that I began abnormally sweating, way more than usual (just walking down the street or putting on a pullover makes me heavily sweat).

1 week later, I asked my psychiatrist to stop taking the antidepressant because all it gave me was heavy sweating, so she agreed and told me to switch back to half the dosis (37.5 mg) for two weeks, and then I finally stop with the medication.

The problem as stated in the title is that one month later (or 28 days to be precise), I still experience this side-effect. It's become unbearable to the point where I have to change T-shirts almost twice a day, I get literal drops of sweats running down my armpits despite being in a slightly cool environment and not doing anything physically demanding. I went last week to see a regular doctor (my psychiatrist is on holiday) who told me it could take some time for me to stop experiencing the side-effect, and assured me that she was "certain it will go away".

Well, I'm not so sure as I'm beginning to think I'll just have to endure that sweating problem for the rest of my life, seeing as there's a number of posts on here which talk about Efexor's (other) permanent side-effects.

I can't keep living on sweating like that, it's utterly insufferable...