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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)
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It's been 5 days and still have boat head, but not nausea or anything else. Remember I only took 37.5 mg/l for hot flashes for past year. BUUUUT...I have had a number of what I thought were slightly dizzy episodes from time to time last 3 or 4 months before stopping. DID ANYONE ELSE GET THIS WHILE TAKING IT (just not as bad)?
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Oh my goodness yes! So, I took my time weening off and truly had minimal symptoms. (And it helped that, when they hit, like head spins etc, I knew exactly why it was happening. ). After over a YEAR of weening off 37.5 mg, I have been Effexor Free since 2/1/19. My dizzy spells are worse. Vertigo. I’ve been treated for something called “benign proximal ... something “. Where the treatment is simple and it’s to move a crystal that got stuck in a wrong place in the inner ear. Seems reasonable enough and treatment is non invasive. But didn’t work in my situation :(. I haven’t been posting lately because of the nausea. Reading etc makes me want to puke. (And incidentally, so does boating! Haha). So now I’m worried I have meniere’s disease Like my dear dad had.
I am hopeful that it’s metely more symptoms of withdrawal and hope so. But when will it stop? It’s been four months!!!