Posted by zinya on August 4, 2003, at 15:53:15
In reply to Re: Effexer and Effexer xr, posted by skipper on August 4, 2003, at 15:43:55
I dont' have an answer to your Q about specialists but when you say "cut down for a few days" that sounds very vague and irresponsible by your md. (albeit all too typical of what many report here -- and my own md. was particularly uninformative about side effects when he prescribed Effexor).
But, while you don't say what level you're at, the impression i have from months of reading here is that you MUST taper off very slowly and spending at least a week at each reduced level and even two weeks. It also seems that the final stage can be THE most important. Going from 37.5 to 0 must also be taken VERY slowly. Either by opening the capsules (you take XR?) and dividing them in half and then in thirds, fourths etc. and spending several days at each level. Or some people do it by going from 37.5 once a day to 37.5 every other day to every third day - but recently even such a plan didn't work for someone here who said they had to also open a capsule and phase out REALLY gradually. Another poster had the opposite experience. Dividing up granules wasn't as good for that person as the every other day approach.
But the idea of tapering off a few days sounds DEFINITELY problematic. Sounds to me like the tapering off should take at least a month (depedning on how high your level before quitting), step by step and a week or so at each step.
Good luck!
Let us know how it goes...
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