Thank you so much @texasduchess So glad to see you have retained your sense of humour with all you have been through !! Thanks for the tip re the juice...I did not know that there were so many variables with the number of beads in each capsule...atm I am just opening them up and judging 1/2...when I am ready to taper more I will give this method a go...amazing how much better I feel today physically and mentally, given I stopped totally on the 1st Nov and was actually OK for a couple of weeks and then it hit me...I was actually putting it down to a detox I am doing and the fact that I took some Melatonin for a couple of nights to help me sleep...I do want to reduce med's given that I could well be on two of them because of the Effexor...poly pharmacy sucks !! I do hope you are on the up and up after your chemo xo We returned from America on the 1st Nov...it is interesting to see commercials for drugs on TV and all the side effects listed...and billboards everywhere re litigating be it for car accidents or drugs....perhaps if Aust was a bit more litigation conscious more of our GP's would do their homework before prescribing...I have a lovely female GP (Serbian) but she really doesn't understand a lot about this issue...she is happy to listen though...she was not the one that prescribed the Effexor initially....did you show your oncologist the article ?