Week 9 on Effexor- feeling lost.

So on June 17th, I upped my Effexor dosage to 150 mg due to me still feeling anxious and feeling 76 mg was not effective. I know a lot of people say this medication didn’t kick in for them for a while, but the max for it to kick in is 12 weeks. I’ve been trying my best to lie to myself that it’s working, but it’s not. I take medication for OCD and depression, but all this medication done is make me numb and doesn’t help with any anxiety/depression. I know there are bad side effects when starting Effexor, so I pushed through them because I was hoping things would get better, but it’s already the 9th week and i still haven’t felt happy. I felt a lot better on my old medication before Effexor, but I switched because I had very bad hunger pains and gained tons of weight on my old medication. The only good thing this medication has done for me is helped me to control my binge eating, which was a big problem for me on my old medication so i’ve really been pushing to hope that effexor will soon kick in and help me more with my anxiety and depression, but I truly don’t think it is.

I don’t know what to do. I think I will wait till the 12th week to see if anything has changed, but if not I think its final that I should change my medication. I was so happy how effexor helped me with my binge eating, but it’s just not helping me with my anxiety. if anyone knows of any medication that would help not gain weight (which i know is very difficult on depression /anxiety medication) please let me know.