When to jump to zero mg effexor? (and being patient!)

Posted by mmsm @mmsm, Sep 27 9:00am

I have been weaning off effexor er for a year, and am down to 8.1mg (weighing beads). At what point is it safe/recommended to jump to zero? I have seen different recommendations by different experts (Sorenson, Horowitz).
Also, I'm having such a tough time with the amount of time this is taking. How can I wrap my brain around it and be more patient? I feel like I'm just missing my life.

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njoys | @njoys | Sep 28 12:40pm

I would suggest you continue to taper as you have, since you have apparently been successful thus far in doing so. If you're down to 8mg, that's tremendous progress, so celebrate it! I'm down to 25mg. I know I have a long way to go, but I want to get there, so I am doing it slowly as recommended by Mark Horowitz, who has done it himself.