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Effexor tapering question

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I have to agree with @mmsm, you are setting yourself up for misery, I’m going through hell because of tapering too fast from Paxil and I don’t want to try another antidepressant to see if it helps, these meds have helped a lot of people but they have also caused so much suffering for others, I regret having taken them in the first place because I feel worse now than I did before. Please take your time and get off them very slowly if that’s what you’re doing, the alternative is miserable.

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I was hoping to taper off venlafaxine by using Efexor, it's name here in UK. But pharmacists have told the psychiatrist that it is not suitable for tapering because the beads inside the capsules are too variable. Each capsule approximates to its stated dose but those tiny spheroids inside differ from one another.
Has anyone come across this as a problem?

And when tapering do you count them out or weigh them?