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Withdrawal from antidepressants
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Sep 1 8:43pm | Replies (24)Comment receiving replies
I am holding steady (more or less) at 25mg tablets twice per day for now. Because I have tried twice to stop Effexor, and succeeded for 2-3 months, only to "crash" and have to resume the drug, I am hesitant to start tapering again. When ready, I plan to reduce by 5% over as much time as I need to adjust without withdrawal symptoms, before tapering another 5%, etc. I need to look into obtaining titrating strips--or go back to the 37.5mg capsule so that I can count and remove 5% of the contents over time. Actually, I am hoping for a miracle in the meantime.... that pharmaceutical companies will be required to provide the drug in lower doses!
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The pharma companies doing lower doses! Can only hope they think this is as good an idea as I do. Keep trying. Is Dr. Mark Horowitz in the U.S.?
I would like to ask if you can describe what you mean by a crash (when you stopped Effexor)?
I believe I would need admission to a residential program to accomplish this weaning my psych drugs.
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There are some antidepressants that are harder to taper than others. I took Pristiq, for example, and it is very hard to get off because of the problems you mention with Effexor - they don't have low dose pills, and Pristiq is also time-released, so you can't cut tablets. My psychiatrist slowly traded out Pristiq for Prozac, and it was easy to taper off.