I've been taking it for about 4 years and it's 100 mg. I can deal with it.

Hey tshere95! I am a medical professional, which angers me even more that I even allowed being put in Effexor. I do agree to a point that big pharma has a lot to do with things, but with Effexor, you have to be careful with things like your blood pressure, heart rate and a multitude of other issues, even if you’ve never had an issue before. Effexor raises blood pressure in many when they’re routinely on it. The stress when going cold turkey after your brain has become used to it (in just a couple of weeks) is in for a shock just stopping it. Please speak with your pharmacist and have them send recommendations to your physician. There’s no shame in going slow. I thought I could handle it too. Tho I’m through the worst of it now, I could have gotten something to help...but I didn’t. You don’t feel like yourself at all when coming off this horrible drug. Just my 2 cents. Good luck! 🙂

Thanks for the post. I have been cutting my 100mg tablets in half for a few days. Other than feeling really out of it, I'm ok. I've also used Kratom for those days as well. That may be curbing the withdrawal symptoms. I will continue this until I run out of pills which will be a few weeks. I'm not refilling my script.

@tshere95 I hope all goes well for you and that you will be off of pills with few of the difficult side-effects that some have mentioned.
JK