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Tips on minimizing withdrawal symptoms from Effexor (aka Venlafaxine)?
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@hoping25 I am not familiar with this medication but I would ask your doctor is the prozac bridge would work for you with this medication. If not, is there another medication you can use as a bridge. I first searched the internet and found the Prozac bridge for Effexor worked well for others so I told my doctor I wanted to try it. Search the internet for your medication and what bridge may work. Going off these medications is insane and brutal. Hopefully, you will be lucky and find something like I did. Prozac is pretty versatile and easy to get off of. These withdrawal systems are almost inhuman. Doctors are so afraid of being sued they won't offer meds without a protocol. For some reason, they don't seem to care about the withdrawal symptoms. They have obviously never been through it.
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@sallyo42yes Drs dont seem too concerned ...maybe thats why they rather you stay on them! Effexor is apparently similar to coming off of Pristiq, according to local pharmacist. He said have compounding keep making lower doses. Dont go slowly from 50mg to 5mg then stop after few weeks.....go to 3.75mg. Who'd want to be on this stuff again! Expensive too, compounding.
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@sallyo420 thank you for replying. Yes the GP was pretty short in response but clear to have recorded it was my decision and against medical advice! He said no point in tapering any further.
I was on Prozac about 10 years ago and it was okay but since then I had an infarction of brain results in mild tremors of mouth and thumbs. Citalopram trial was awful - tremors increased and felt very anxious so stopped after a week. So ssris may not be good for me now. I have been off the Mirtazipine two nights now and the burning skin sensation was not as bad this morning so will see how I go.
Mirtazipine is a very sedative drug and good for sleep but I dread to think what it is doing to brain in long term!