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hyperchicangie · 05-23-2007, 01:12 AM

Hi!!!

I'm Angie and I am 25 years old. I have been taking effexor for the past 6 years and am attempting to lower my dose. This is day two and things are looking really bleak!!! The withdrawl symptoms are shocking and I am constantly tired

has anyone else withdrawn from Efexor or am I the only one??? Does it get any better than this??? My partner doesn't seem to understand what I am going through and gets grumpy when something "isn't done", but I just can't seem to lose the scattered feeling and it is hard for me to operate. Please if you could offer some advise, that would be greatly appreciated. The dose that I have been on for 6 years is 150mg and I have dropped that to 75mg/day. Thanks

Angie xoxox

trg247 · 05-23-2007, 02:04 PM

Sorry know one has replied to you before this. You need to cut down really slowly and over a long period of time. Look up Effexor withdrawl or Paxil Withdrawl on the net and that should help. Effexor can be brutal to get off on and the best advice I have for you is slower is always better. Cutting your dose in half is way too much. I have heard about people breaking open the capsules and counting beads thats how slowly they go.

take care
trg247

Trixibel · 05-23-2007, 07:00 PM

you have to do it really, really slowly. taking it down by like 25mg at a time, if you can do that. when I was on zoloft I withdrew in the following manner:

I'd have the full dose for two days, then on the third day have half a dose. I did this for a couple of weeks and then I went down to having the full dose one day and the half dose the next - for another two weeks. Then i went to having a half dose every day. then a half dose every other day and nothing on the days in between. it was a long process but i felt mostly okay, apart from a bit of anxiety.

so maybe you should do the same - 150 mg for two days and 75 mg on the third for a couple of weeks.

good luck.

hyperchicangie · 05-23-2007, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trg247

Sorry know one has replied to you before this. You need to cut down really slowly and over a long period of time. Look up Effexor withdrawl or Paxil Withdrawl on the net and that should help. Effexor can be brutal to get off on and the best advice I have for you is slower is always better. Cutting your dose in half is way too much. I have heard about people breaking open the capsules and counting beads thats how slowly they go.

take care
trg247

Thanks for your replies!!! Day three today!!! woohoo!! I will definately look up the withdrawl thingy...... I do feel today though that I am no longer in a fog and it is almost as if the lights have come on...does that make sense??? Light the world looks brighter??? Im liking this bit!!! Irritable, frustrated and have shaky hands, lethargic at times but generally feeling okay

lmao....
Thank you all....
Angie mwahhhh

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