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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)
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you are absolutely correct. I tried tapering (from 75 mg./day) over 3 months (but reducing the dosage by 18 mg. every 3 weeks). It was pretty rough. When I stopped all together on Monday of this week, I found I was experiencing nausea and brain shivers and fatigue like I had in the very early days. As much as I want to get off it, I realize slow and steady does the course. Fortunately I have not been on the XR so I can keep cutting the 75 mg tablets down into smaller chunks. I think I'm about at 10 mg. chunks which I will take for at least another month. At this rate, I have enough tablets for a year or more. I will take that long if I need to. I will increase the dosage slightly if I need to minimize the worst side effects. I am also trying L-Tryptophan, and a daily detox - not sure if they will be of any benefit, but it couldn't hurt. I am grateful for the information I have gotten here. I found nothing helpful in medical literature and my GP is clueless.
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Gp’s are in a tricky position and would probably prefer a psychiatrist deal with it. If anyone takes more than two psych meds they prob should see a Psychiatrist who is more fluent in the interactions and withdrawals. Monitoring those meds is all they really do anyway in this day and age. My FP saw me every 3 months, asked how I was coping and reduced by another quarter of a tablet. He dropped it by half a tablet last time but I didn’t do it. I didn’t want the sudden wallop I would get.
Proper sleep, nutrition, stress reduction and modest exercise is a baseline for anyone disorder or not. After that, it’s the brain, body med combo for those of us dealing with conditions. This med can override all the above. How much worse for people who don’t meet even those basics.