Posted by lorily on July 7, 2004, at 16:36:35
In reply to Re: Everyone's different, but..., posted by Rowdy Redhead on July 6, 2004, at 17:40:31
Well, whatever you do, don't just stop cold, work with your doctor on the effexor. Trazadone is an antidepressant afterall and may help with your depression. Since it's generally too sedative to only take as an AD, it's given as a sleep aide and you don't HAVE to take it--at least for me-- when I start waking up too grogy, I lower the dosage or stop taking it. that lets me know my body doesn't need it so much, when I start having trouble sleeping again, i resume use. But the effexor, reading all these threads, I'm scared, I'd never have started taking it if I knew it was so difficult to stop. Weeks ago I tapered to 125 of depakote and now for the past couple weeks, none. My effexor was lowered to 37.5 1-1/2 mos ago and I've been this past week feeling side effects, maybe since i'm no longer taking the depakote. today I divided the effexor in half ang feel fine so far (actually better) and think I will continue to do that, lowering it gradually and hopefully I will not be hit so bad with withdrawals (which I've read are clinically called "discontinuation syndrome" because we are not really addicted to effexor for it to be called withdrawals.
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