Posted by SLS on March 19, 2005, at 6:48:52
In reply to Re: About the Effexor XR Withdrawal » winddancer, posted by SLS on March 16, 2005, at 14:53:44
> Dr. Bob is away for a week and has left others in charge. It will be interesting to see if this gets redirected there. Fondly, Phillipa
I think it would be better to continue this on the Withdrawal board.
WindDancer, I really would like to see you get the tablets to work with. Once you get toward the end of the taper - which you are approaching - you might actually want to allow for the very beginnings of withdrawal symptoms to appear before dosing again. At this point, it is ideal that you get the medication into your blood stream as soon as possible. In my experience, it only takes 15 minutes to 1/2 hour for the symptoms to subside. I don't know if the yogurt thing will work well to accomplish this.
On an empty stomach, you can simply swallow your doses. If necessary, the pieces that you split off the 25mg tablets will dissolve in your mouth (bucally or sublingually). You can wash down what hasn't dissolved with water. It is somewhat bitter, but very tolerable. Towards the end of my tapers, I simply nibble small amounts off the tablet and wait until withdrawals appear and then nibble off a little more. You might be able to get the stuff to dissolve in water. I don't really know. I estimate that I bite off 4mg. That equals 1/3 of the 12.5mg halves of the 25mg scored tablet.
Too many words?
Let's see how things go.
- Scott
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