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As promised, my successful tapering off Effexor (Venlafaxine)
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doctors are continually telling their patients to make huge reductions on effexor with no taper and it is not appropriate. it can make you suicidal and basically unable to function. you should taper by no more than 10 percent a month. so 10 percent reduction would out you at 135 mg for rhe first month. please go to survivingantidepressants.org people there have fantastic advice and provide tapering calculators
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in reply to @snailtime I agree with you. In fact, I have tapered down to 75 mg from 150mg, but now want to get off this drug because it causes terrible eye pain. I have a new psychologist who I am working with, and she also has a MD, specializing in Neurology. I will discuss with her the methods of tapering off this awful drug that I have been taking for years. My PCP initially cut my dose in half, the results were a disastor.