Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)

Oh my gosh, I just got the BEST Blessing. You remember, I almost died from cold inside my rental house around Valentines day.
I have been looking for a new place to live but because I have been disabled since age 42, (68 now) my social disability income while high for the Ozarks, doesn't provide enough to come up with the high deposits necessary to move.
The lady that runs the senior center in this new town, told me about a government program for seniors or disabled folks who rent to get a portion of the taxes the owner pays on their property to be returned to the renter.
So for 2018, I am getting $682 back for 1 year alone. She can file 3 years for me...
Oh my gosh, this is such a huge blessing for me. And I was only paying $350 a month for my 2 bedroom place.
Oh, my gosh, this is going to relieve so much worry and stress. I am so grateful.
Bright Wings

@texasduchess your story is exactly one of the reasons I decided to jump off at the dosage I was on (about 68 mg). 68 mg is not a dangerous dose to cold turkey from, in my opinion, and the longer I continue counting beads slowly, the longer of a time the effexor is in my system....I will probably experience WD symptoms either way I do it, so best for me to just begin the healing instead of prolonging the agony. I don't know what happened but one day I was just like "enough is enough". It's been a week now, since my last dose. Some vertigo, labile emotions such as rage and crying jags catch me totally by surprise but they pass like a cloud going across the face of the sun.
With that being said, this week has brought its challenges. Including an argument with my husband over my lack of financial contribution and my neediness. This topic rears its ugly head from time to time but this time a trust line was crossed for me when he verbalized the D word. To me once you say this, the marriage dynamic is completely changed forever. It is unfortunate that he has made comments, "in anger", that I will not forget.
I teach a few hours a day online, I have done it for 3 years which is about my limit to stay at one job, and I am over it. I vascillate between gratitude that I can make money from home, to feeling like an absolute prisoner when I am forced to sit and smile and engage no matter what. I have a lot of regular students and I can never, ever have a bad class. I am over it. I took a break from it for a few weeks hoping I would be rejuvenated when I returned but, the opposite happened. Have no desire to do anything to bring money in. At a standstill with all of that.
Then on Wednesday I had a spot on my face that I recognized immediately as MRSA (I have had it several times but not for years) and am now on antibiotics, with the possibility of another dr visit if they have to (GOD FORBID) drain it. Just the thought of this makes me nauseous. Since I could not teach with my face looking this way, I'm having to scramble for documentation so that my cancellations will be "forgiven" and I can keep my job.
Am I the only one who finds irony in this entire situation?
I hope you are all having a great day!

@brightwings This is amazing news. Out here in California the rents are putting a lot of people out on the streets. Do you know if the government program applies to any other states? Do you happen to know its name so I can research? I have been uplifted by your posts. Many thanks!

@betsyjane
Have your doctors ruled out hand-foot-and-mouth disease? It's a mild, contagious viral infection characterized by sores in the mouth and a rash on the hands and feet. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is most commonly caused by a coxsackievirus. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20353035

@brightwings This is amazing news. Out here in California the rents are putting a lot of people out on the streets. Do you know if the government program applies to any other states? Do you happen to know its name so I can research? I have been uplifted by your posts. Many thanks!

@texasduchess your story is exactly one of the reasons I decided to jump off at the dosage I was on (about 68 mg). 68 mg is not a dangerous dose to cold turkey from, in my opinion, and the longer I continue counting beads slowly, the longer of a time the effexor is in my system....I will probably experience WD symptoms either way I do it, so best for me to just begin the healing instead of prolonging the agony. I don't know what happened but one day I was just like "enough is enough". It's been a week now, since my last dose. Some vertigo, labile emotions such as rage and crying jags catch me totally by surprise but they pass like a cloud going across the face of the sun.
With that being said, this week has brought its challenges. Including an argument with my husband over my lack of financial contribution and my neediness. This topic rears its ugly head from time to time but this time a trust line was crossed for me when he verbalized the D word. To me once you say this, the marriage dynamic is completely changed forever. It is unfortunate that he has made comments, "in anger", that I will not forget.
I teach a few hours a day online, I have done it for 3 years which is about my limit to stay at one job, and I am over it. I vascillate between gratitude that I can make money from home, to feeling like an absolute prisoner when I am forced to sit and smile and engage no matter what. I have a lot of regular students and I can never, ever have a bad class. I am over it. I took a break from it for a few weeks hoping I would be rejuvenated when I returned but, the opposite happened. Have no desire to do anything to bring money in. At a standstill with all of that.
Then on Wednesday I had a spot on my face that I recognized immediately as MRSA (I have had it several times but not for years) and am now on antibiotics, with the possibility of another dr visit if they have to (GOD FORBID) drain it. Just the thought of this makes me nauseous. Since I could not teach with my face looking this way, I'm having to scramble for documentation so that my cancellations will be "forgiven" and I can keep my job.
Am I the only one who finds irony in this entire situation?
I hope you are all having a great day!

I don't believe doctors have ruled out anything, I don't guess. But I have no rash.

@sandij
Gosh I am so sorry to read all this...hang in there....
MRSA, NASTY BUG...been there, don't want to do it again...are they pimples that come up fast and are painful? I got something on the top of my head and remember them from before...about the same time my hand started peeling way back when. I am aware it takes an antibiotic to get it to go away...hey I don't want to keep meeting like this...find something on me somebody else has, but better to know than not.
I experienced less anxiety today. I went and sat by my waterfall and left my challenges fluttering in the breeze for more than hour.
Still no CBD but I got my disability paper sent to the company.
I will order it tomorrow. Then it will be sent to me Monday.
All in all, its been a good day. Bright Wings

From what CBD maker are you ordering and in what strength at what dosage please?
I’ve been looking into Lazarus and Charlotte’s Web.
I have much anxiety, depression and arthritic pain.
Thanks very much BW !