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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: May 23 3:59am | Replies (6081)Comment receiving replies
Today has been the worst day yet with withdrawal symptoms. Headache, sweats and throwing up. I've been sick all week but today it was just sever throwing up. My throat is killing me, headache probably from the vomiting and the sweating!! My poor fiance is freezing and I'm laying under air vent with a big fan blowing on me. Even taking cool showers. I bet it's your withdrawal and not hot flashes.
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It could be both. I haven't had any symptoms today…and in many ways, the hot flashes are related to the withdrawal…and can persist in post-menopausal women. Effexor and other SSRIs/SNRIs are shown at low doses to decrease hot flashes. Using that as a starting point, had I not been on Effexor, I might have experienced hot flashes going into menopause…and after. They are related to withdrawal – because I am going off something that may have been masking them…although they may also be related to it. It's the dreaded correlation/causation conundrum. 🙂