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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)
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@texasduchess Very interesting...yes, I think you are right...slow is def the way to go....how are you feeling now without the drug ? Do you have any residual issues from taking this drug for 18yrs? I took an article on Bergamet along to one of my visits to a cardiologist a few yrs back...a leading cardiologist in Sydney has all his pt's on it...and the very high risk ones he will put on a Statin too...my Cardio wanted to put me on a Statin...I was resistant as I think they are pure poison...I did take it for 2 days and went off it because I felt so bad...and am sure it was not psychosomatic...I actually think I really researched Statins after taking it from memory because it made me so sick...My cholesterol on my next visit had improved markedly with the Bergamet...Told Cardio I had taken Statin for a week...wasn't game to tell him 2 days...he tried to tell me that taking the Statin for "a week" was what brought my Cholesterol down !! He got a bit shitty with me for not continuing on with the Rx...and dismissed me with a cautionary tale about not believing everything I read on the Net...;-) Yes...re the "sudden death"...yep...why would you ??? But they are covering their backsides I guess....but people in Oz would be far more conscious of not accepting drug treatment willy nilly if these commercials aired here....Am assuming you are from Texas y'all ? We drove through Texas last month...absolutely loved it...and the people 🙂
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@patjen Yep, I live in the DFW Metroplex and not a native Texan (but got here as soon as I could). If you were here last month, it wasn't really typical--we had a lot of rain, cold temperatures and no sunshine for weeks on end.
Re researching drugs and illnesses--you're kind of d*mned if you do and d*mned if you don't. You hear all the time that you should be an educated consumer and your own best advocate--yet, when you question some health providers, you get "Don't question me!" responses. I will admit that my husband threatened to put "parental blocks" on some sites when I was researching the chemo I was going to do--lots of scary stuff.
Post-Effexor--I still need to take supplements (L-tryptophan and GABA) and Dramam*ne, am quick to rage and have trouble staying asleep (this used to be my hobby!), I am not doing too badly--but I've been off Effexor for more than six months, tapered slowly and was only ever on 25mg. I do feel "normal" most of the time and have tapered off one set of supplements. If I had known I'd have issues and what a pain my post-withdrawal symptoms would be, I'd have just stayed on Effexor; the only thing I noticed on Effexor is that if I forgot to take my daily pill, I'd get a whopper headache--I figured out pretty quickly that the headache was related to not having taken my Effexor.