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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)

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@notaround

Thanks for the sympathy, everyone. I'm doing my best to be patient with myself.

Hope you all have as good a day as you can right now. Even if it's just making it to tomorrow.

One of the things that gets me through sometimes is knowing that any single episode can't last forever. Feelings and symptoms change. And over time, more treatments get approved. So I do what I can to nudge things towards a change I want and then wait. While it can be a little scary to think about, the idea of impermanence helps me.

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notaround | @notaround | Apr 12, 2019

Checking in here to say so far so good being a month off venlafaxine.

My old fainting problem has been a little more common recently (orthostatic syncope, or faint if I stand up too fast) but I don't think that's withdrawal. Feels slightly different.

In good news, being off Prozac for a few weeks has fixed the chronic runs.

Bad news is Depression has been hitting me like a baseball bat. Hanging in there but not functional enough. Today I did dishes for the first time in like two weeks.

Going to check on clinical trials at my next followup in early May.

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