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"Messing up my tapering" is understating it—going to 37.5 mg from 175 mg overnight is like being pushed off a cliff.
"The decision was made to keep me on the 37.5 and ride it out." Again, wow! Only you know how you feel. Many times doctors are more optimistic than their patients find comfortable regarding how quickly you drop and how steep the drops should be.
Skipping days puts you into withdrawal every other day.
Getting off Effexor is a marathon, not a sprint. You may want to consider going back to a dose where you didn't have any WD symptoms, staying there until stabilized before attempting ANY more tapering and when you do taper again, note that folks are usually more successful dropping no more than 5–10% at a time and staying at the new level for weeks (even months) AND stabilizing before dropping again.