Venlafaxine
hot flashes
"This drug decreased my hot flushes by 2/3.  I figured it would be 100% but that was probably an unreasonable expectation. I've gone from 8-12 a day to 2-3.  I've suffered hot flushes since 1998 and the past 6 months they have only gotten more frequent and very annoying.  My husband says I'm nicer to live with after taking Effexor, so now I realize I really was irritable from the lack of sleep and night sweats this past year.  I tend to forget names or words more frequently but am not sure if the foggy brain has another cause. "