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← Return to Tapering Off of Effexor
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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Dec 12, 2023 | Replies (20)
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If you look at the research, you are decreasing the dose in the wrong direction. One should start by removing more beads in the beginning (no more than ten percent) and reduce by fewer and fewer beads over time. If you think about it, this makes sense because removing more and more beads would mean you are decreasing the dosage by a larger percentage of the drug, which is not what you want to do. See this link for a better explanation:
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in reply to @sassysaveur Thank you! I appreciate this information very much. Those beads are so tiny, that removing them feels like I am back in the chemistry lab in college. I will move ahead as you have suggested, as I really want to get off of this medication. I do not need it and do not want to take it going forward. After the discussion with my psychologist, who is also a MD, I am even more determined to remove this medication from my already spilling over medicine cabinet. This information is so helpful!