I'm really lost and trying to get myself off venlafaxine. My psychiatrist did not care about me at all - he worried about me getting addicted to 0.5mg of loratadine and then prescribed me venlafaxine! With zero mention of how addictive it is. For other reasons, I fired him a little while ago. A few weeks or like 2 months. I'm not very good with time.

How can I get myself off it? My PCP is ignoring the pharmacy (for over a week) and all I have is about 60 of 75mg tablets. I'm lying in bed now, dizzy and feel horrible. I was on a dose of 150+37.5 when I stopped seeing my psychiatrist. Currently, I'm down to 75mg a day, last taken a bit less than 24 hours ago. I have to do this on my own because my doctor doesn't care either. I'm one of thousands of people who use the health care center and I'm not worth the time apparently. My doc didn't even bother to follow up on diarrhea that left me seriously dehydrated - just tried to pin it on depression instead of treating me. Ordered tests and then no one gave me instructions and didn't do all the tests. Never did find out what caused it and thankfully after nearly a month straight and some antibiotics 'just in case', it went away. Of course, they did have time to file the paperwork to bill me for it.

I would get a new doctor but I can't even pay the bills I owe - $150 per appt to not help me.

I live alone and have no family. I have to do everything myself and there's no one to rescue me from being homeless again. I'm a transsexual so my options for any medical care (or employment, housing, people treating me like a human being) are very very limited, and I've been in treatment for over a decade despite not turning 30 yet. But I get told I'm too young to possibly be depressed, until the assumer asks me about my past and then I always get the same shocked look.

Does anyone have any advice on how I can stop feeling so horrible? I can't get a new rx, I have no support except my cat, and I just don't see any point in trying anymore but I am not quite ready to completely give up. If I was, I'd not be writing this. I have a degree in psychology (not that it's helped me any) so I can understand technical advice.

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