I have been on venlafex for 2 years now. I didn’t go on it for depression but anxiety and stress due to the fact that we decided to move countries. I went to see my doctor due to awful tinnitus and told him that I felt I didn’t need venlafex anymore. He decreased my dose immediately from 70mg to 37.5. Then told me to decrease to 1 every second day and so on. After two weeks I was fine but suddenly started suffering nausea, headaches brain fog, fatigue, worse tinnitus, odd pains in my head. I had no idea that these were withdrawal symptoms. I started panicking thinking I had brain tumours etc until I started researching and realised it was all withdrawal symptoms. How could my doc do this to me? I can’t get tablet form to cut in half to at least taper off the daily dose. I tried opening the capsules which just landed up flying everywhere. I’ve decided to try and see an ENT and have a ct scan anyway because the tinnitus is unbearable. The antibiotics and drops didn’t help. I feel like my head is a total mess. Needless to say I’m changing doctors