Posted by IsoM on February 19, 2002, at 13:02:56
In reply to Re: Each person is unique., posted by Maria Warren on February 19, 2002, at 12:16:05
Maria, you may take months tapering down from your Effexor only to find that you were one of the people who could discontinue it reasonably quickly without suffering bad effects. You'll know how you react from the initial change from 375 mg to 300 mg. If you're going to suffer discontinuation effects, you'll feel it that first week.
If you don't feel bad, you probably can go with his tapering schedule. If you do feel bad, tell him you need to go much slower. By the way, 20 mg Celexa is pretty low. You may need 40 mg or even 60. Hopefully, adding the Celexa as you taper down from Effexor should quell the symptoms of discontinuing it.
I'm one of those who had to taper off SSRIs over months, a couple of mg at a time, & still felt sick every day & then even for months afterwards. My case is pretty rare, thank goodness. I'm taking adrafinil (Provigil's siter), Celexa, & synthroid now. I found, for whatever reason, that adrafinil's enabled me to stop Paxil this time with no problems whatsoever. I went from my 10 mg Paxil cold turkey (while taking the above combo too) to none. All other times I tried tapering off even a little, I'd get sick, woozy, etc. The only difference now is the adrafinil I take. Stopped the Paxil & never even noticed a difference.
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