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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)
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Additional info to my post: First I’ve been tapering slowly and went down to 37.5mg without any symptoms. Then I went to 0 and got a mental breakdown. Then my doc prescribed me 60mg of Cymbalta and I’ve switched the drug (quit Ven). Have been taking Cymbalta for 20 days, 0 improvements whatsoever. So yes basically I’ve understood that if I continue I’ll just get further and further physically hooked on Cymbalta without getting any actual help from it. That’s why I went cold turkey. I didn’t want to feed my body with it, not another milligram, so my cells are less likely to develop dependence.
Oh wait. From which medicine am I experiencing withdrawal syndromes then. Venlafaxine? Cymbalta? I feel like SNRI in general. My body need to get used to not having any dose of SNRI. How? No clue. My doc seem to have no clue as well.
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Did you try breaking open the Venlafaxine capsule and tapering your dose from 37.5mg? Each white tablet is 12.5 mg there’s 6 tablets in the 37.5mg capsule (this is for Venlafaxine not Effexor) once I got to one tablet I stopped taking it from there! It definitely sounds like you’re going through Venlafaxine withdrawal, maybe add a few white tablets in to help ease the symptoms?
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