Posted by KaraS on February 22, 2005, at 19:56:31 [reposted on February 22, 2005, at 21:00:47 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Only ONE contribution so far for WITHDRAWAL » KaraS, posted by SLS on February 22, 2005, at 16:29:27
> Hi Kara.
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> > I don't know if this will help you at all since my withdrawal was fairly standard. I decreased VERY slowly (opening capsules and then later cutting the 37.5 mg. tablets). I had very little problem with this. When I was nearing the smaller dosages and I felt a bit of a problem, I took one 300 mg. capsule of St. John's Wort.
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> That's an interesting approach.
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> > I only did this two or three times. I think it helped though I'm not positive because my problems with the withdrawal were minimal at that point anyway. When I finally got off of the last quarter of a pill (a little under 10 mg.), is when I started having some unbearable problems. After two days of that, I took a small amount of Cymbalta for a few days and that completely took away all of my side effects.
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> Did you continue with the Cymbalta, or use it only to ease your withdrawal? Do you recall how much you needed to take to resolve the Effexor withdrawal symptoms?
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> - Scott
Scott,I only took Cymbalta at 10 mg. for about 3 days (opened the capsules and estimated about 1/3 of the amount within). That's all I needed for the withdrawal symptoms to stop. I meant to continue and build up on the Cymbalta but I was having a hard time tolerating it. When I stopped the Cymbalta I was free of all withdrawal effects.
Kara
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