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Re: ANY POSITIVE EXPERIENCES WITH EFFEXOR WITHDRAWAL?? » fairnymph

Posted by shar on April 5, 2003, at 23:25:16

In reply to Re: ANY POSITIVE EXPERIENCES WITH EFFEXOR WITHDRAWAL??, posted by fairnymph on March 31, 2003, at 1:00:48


> I think most people who suffer severe withdrawal don't do a gradual enough taper. The withdrawal can be AWFUL if you stop suddenly -- but it's really not so bad otherwise.
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> fn

I'm glad you had an easy time of it. Withdrawal seems to be one of the things where YMMV a lot. I'd never had any withdrawal problems on any meds I'd tried until Effexor. I did a nice slow taper, over a period of several weeks with pauses at certain dosages so the amount in my system wasn't always going down, upped my WB, and used klonopin when necessary, and it was a hellish nightmare.

I was not prepared for it, given my ample experience with other meds and withdrawal. I'm not sure that tapering was the problem, because I did taper slowly, and still had extremely problematic times. I think it was the Effexor that was the problem.

Again, tho, this could be very much an individualized response.

Shar



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