Hi, I suggest you buy the book:’The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines for Anti-depressants etc.’. I’m nothing to do with it; I’ve just bought it for myself as I’ve been trying to reduce my venlafaxine. Anyway, I paid £45.00 so it’s not cheap, but it’s excellent. It describes how to dilute the medication so that you can take smaller and smaller doses. From 75mgs., it says that you should go slower and slower in time, with much less of a drop in dosage each time. What ever you do, do not be tempted at any point to take an amount on alternate days. That causes huge problems as I’ve found out. I went from 300mgs to 75mgs over six months. Everything was fine, but as I only had tablets of 75mgs,, my next step was to take one every other day. I then experienced the most appalling withdrawals, am now back on 150mgs, and will probably have to go back to the full 300mgs to get rid of these terrible effects. Having stabilised, I’ll then be starting all over again. Neither my doctor nor their pharmacist has any experience with this, so the book is a must for me. Good luck!!
Regards,
Zainah-Elizabeth Lovell