@seashore
Good morning,
I’m sorry you found my comment to be heartless. Although it may not have been as compassionate as you may have thought it should have been. I don’t believe I ever targeted you specifically. I never said you disobeyed your doctor or that you took large cuts. Yes, I do believe 6 months is to short to taper off 225mg after taking it for 12 years. Admitting I’m not a medical professional, it’s simply my opinion based on thousands of posts here and other forums. You said I seem confused about how you came off Effexor. I don’t know how I could be confused since I had absolutely no idea how you came off of it. I never saw what your taper schedule was. I am not a medical professional and my opinion is based on the thousands of threads I have read here and on other forum’s and the consensus has been they were having withdrawal effects because they have been coming off it too quickly. It is a perfectly logical and normal conclusion to come to. But the sad truth is regardless of whether people have taken this medication for a few months 10 years or 30 years when they decide they wanna quit they want to quit fast. One lady here who was a medical professional was on it for 30 years, she came off too quickly and had a stroke.

You mentioned there are other equally as effective anti-depressants and that may well be true for you and some others but it’s not necessarily true for everyone. A number of people have said Effexor is the only drug that helped them. It’s possible some of those may not have tried every single anti-depressant on the market but I can only go by what people are kind enough to share.

I do believe doctors need to be more enlightened to some of their patients needs.
You obviously have strong opinions as do I so I hope we can agree to disagree.
Have a nice day,
Jake