venlafaxine xr withdrawal Please help

I don't know your specific drug but my experience getting off ATIVAN taught me to reduce very very gradually by 10% weekly ... which meant careful pill cutting. Exercise, meditation and boring glasses of water helped me control the side effects...coffee, my drug of choice, made it even more difficult. Now, two years later...I am a different person..

The instructions for your drug states"A gradual reduction in the dose, rather than abrupt cessation, is recommended whenever possible. In clinical studies with Effexor XR, tapering was achieved by reducing the daily dose by 75 mg at one-week intervals. Individualization of tapering may be necessary [see Warnings and Precautions (5.7)].

I don't know your specific drug but my experience getting off ATIVAN taught me to reduce very very gradually by 10% weekly ... which meant careful pill cutting. Exercise, meditation and boring glasses of water helped me control the side effects...coffee, my drug of choice, made it even more difficult. Now, two years later...I am a different person..

The instructions for your drug states"A gradual reduction in the dose, rather than abrupt cessation, is recommended whenever possible. In clinical studies with Effexor XR, tapering was achieved by reducing the daily dose by 75 mg at one-week intervals. Individualization of tapering may be necessary [see Warnings and Precautions (5.7)].

I don't know your specific drug but my experience getting off ATIVAN taught me to reduce very very gradually by 10% weekly ... which meant careful pill cutting. Exercise, meditation and boring glasses of water helped me control the side effects...coffee, my drug of choice, made it even more difficult. Now, two years later...I am a different person..

The instructions for your drug states"A gradual reduction in the dose, rather than abrupt cessation, is recommended whenever possible. In clinical studies with Effexor XR, tapering was achieved by reducing the daily dose by 75 mg at one-week intervals. Individualization of tapering may be necessary [see Warnings and Precautions (5.7)].

I don't know your specific drug but my experience getting off ATIVAN taught me to reduce very very gradually by 10% weekly ... which meant careful pill cutting. Exercise, meditation and boring glasses of water helped me control the side effects...coffee, my drug of choice, made it even more difficult. Now, two years later...I am a different person..

The instructions for your drug states"A gradual reduction in the dose, rather than abrupt cessation, is recommended whenever possible. In clinical studies with Effexor XR, tapering was achieved by reducing the daily dose by 75 mg at one-week intervals. Individualization of tapering may be necessary [see Warnings and Precautions (5.7)].

Omg hope your ok now my wife is going through the same thing I don\'t know what to-do put her in hospital or keep giving diazepam she\'s all over the place thinks that everyone is out to get her you name it she\'s got it she\'s now down to 75 mg a day its been and still is a nightmare for all the family

Hi! I just joined and am anxious to share my experience with Effexor. After 27 years on a 60 mg daily dose of Prozac, I admitted myself to the hospital due to a major depressive episode that had me non functional, I was told by the psychiatrist that I was suffering from " Prozac poop out", which is what the medical community calls it. She weaned me off the Prozac while starting a 75 mg dose of Rffexor. I felt a change for the better literally in three days. I have been on Effexor for three months now, and in preparation for my family doctor visit next week, I had the routine blood work done that he always orders. I was shocked to see that my triglycerides have gone from 121 to an astounding 348, and my fasting blood sugar which has always been in the 90's is suddenly 123. I was also started on Jan 1 a combo BP pill of losartan/ hudrochlorothiazide. After eliminating white flour and white sugar for four days, my fasting sugar was 140 this morning. ( my husband is diabetic so I can test my sugars at home). I have been surfing WEB MD, and it appears that all of this could definitely be due to these two new meds. I desperately want to go back on Prozac and will be asking my doctor what to do as I DO NOT want to go on more meds for all of these side effects! Oh, and did I mention that it appears I am now full blown metabolism syndrome too! All of this and only THREE months on Effexor!