Posted by gardenia girl on March 26, 2005, at 22:32:52
In reply to Re: About the Effexor XR Withdrawal » gardenia girl, posted by winddancer on March 26, 2005, at 17:54:48
FYI
I stumbled across the following this afternoon.
Supplemental to Scott's tapering method.http://www.rxlist.com/rxboard/effexor.pl?noframes;read=5422
Count the Granules
Posted By: Help_Harry
Date: Friday, 25 February 2005, at 4:16 p.m.
Hello all,
After the response to my last post from Janet about observations, I thought I would take this one step further and count granules of both a 75mg capsule and a 37.5mg capsule. Remember this is for the XR version of effexor. Janet's count was 160 from a 37.5mg capsule. For some reason I have found a different count for the 37.5mg capsules. But the weight proportions between the 75mg and the 37.5mg capsule sizes seem to be correct. Each type of capsule has small, medium and large size granules. I did my best to separate them. I used a cross section of two of each size capsule and found similar enough between them to come to the conclusions below.
Here are my discoveries:
75mg capsule
Large - 22
Med - 101
Small - 67
total - 190
37.5mg capsule
Large - 16
Medium - 48
Small - 32
Total - 96
The 37.5 has a nice ratio of 1:3 between the small, medium and large. If you removed one large, two small and three mediums each day that would be an equal reduction but in my opinion probably too fast of a weening schedule. The 75mg doesn't have as nice of a balance. You would have to eliminate one large, 4.5 mediums, and 3.5 smalls each time, probably also too fast of a weening. I am thinking about a month schedule for each capsule size. One month to go from 75mg to 37.5mg and then one more month for 37.5mg to 0mg. My brain is fried from all the counting so I will throw this out there for debate and suggestions. My thought is you can never have enough planning for something like this.
Best
Harry
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