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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)

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@jakedduck1

@bdizjr
Good morning & Happy Holidays,
I hope your fine this Christmas morning.
You were given some top notch advice by @texasduchess.
I want to alert you to only one other thing. You tapered at a set rate (37.5mg) per month. When you look at it from a percentage standpoint your taper wasn’t so slow or smooth. If my calculations are correct (And I wouldn’t bet money on them) you started with a 25% decrease then the next month decreased by 33% and then 50%, so it was anything but slow as you describe. It’s better to choose a particular percentage and stay there.
It is incomprehensible to me how someone can take a medication for 10, 20 or 30 years than expect to get off it in such a short time or worse stopping cold turkey. A lady here stopped cold turkey after 30 years and had a stroke.
Your best chance for a totally uneventful taper is to do it slowly. Oh yes, one more thing. Here is a link to micro-tapering at Cinderella therapeutics,

https://www.cinderella-tx.org/en/

Blessings,
Jake

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ainsleigh | @ainsleigh | Dec 25, 2019

Hi Jake
We on Connect should be sending you- and I am- a huge thankyou for all your posts about tapering off meds
wisely! You may not be an official professional but you certainly are giving excellent suggestions to those of us
out in cyberspace who are struggling to move on without drugs and it is not easy so we need all the help we can get! So I hope you will stay with us!
To you and those on Connect who celebrate-Merry Christmas- and for you and those who do not-Happy
Holidays and to all my very best wishes! Thank goodness we are all here for each other!
Ainsleigh

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cp6401 | @cp6401 | Dec 27, 2019

thanks Jake, you are right. i recently went from 150 to 75 (went fine) then to 37.5 (50% cut) went through hell.. now i'm a little more stable.. but still "stress fragile".. i'll call it..your percentage comparison opened my eyes to how aggressive i actually was.. going to go off 37.5 measuring the beads and taking slow

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