Took me 6 months to taper off 150 ER...best thing I ever did!! And I second the CBD oil!

Been reading a lot I post back in the first part of June I believe I loose track of time so easily these days but was taking effexor about a year and a half and it seemed to stop working if it really did at all so my pcp sent to mental health where they uped my dose from 75 up it 37.5 week then to 150 with no real change in how I was feeling I have a lot of back pain stomach pain and had a heart attack at age 35 so I also take a lot of meds of the heart and stomach and pain meds all that alone is depressing only being 47 now my body is more of a 60 + year old because of the way my heart beats but needless to say I only look late 30s so I'm told but anyway we discussed switching to Cymbalta b3cause it is known to help pain so he started me on the weeping process which his order was 75 3days 37.5 3 days and start Cymbalta so by day 2 of no effexor I was a hot mess all around about ready to commit my self because of dizziness pressure in my head sweats shakes bad dreams lack of total concentration just felt totally disoriented so I call mental heath Dr he stopped the Cymbalta and put me on 10 MG Lexapro and 25mg Vistaril which I only took a few days of the Vistaril because it didn't help the panic attacks I was having I see this Dr tomorrow almost 2 months later I do feel better from the withdraws but still get the fuzzy head feeling from time to time and just no enegery or get up and go at all I'm hoping this comes back I want my life back so him and I are going to have a long discussion on what to do next I want off the Lexapro too but am terrified of what may come of that too no more meds for me until I get a genetic testing first wish me luck and from what I have learned about this drug is that you must I mean must take it slow and easy because that was one of the worst feelings I've ever had I would rather be depressed then withdraw from the evil drug