Posted by dancingstar on March 24, 2007, at 18:27:58
In reply to Re: withdrawal, posted by teady-joshua on March 24, 2007, at 2:56:24
Hey Joshua,
Looking back, though you could not have convinced me of this at the time, I think it would have been best to go back on Effexor and wean off of it slowly.
There are two ways to do this. One is to take Effexor tablets instead of capsules because the tablets come in smaller dose amounts, and you can easily break them into ever smaller and smaller amounts until your friend is safely off the drug.
The other way is to empty the capsules and take fewer and fewer grains of Effexor. Read through the years of posts on this board where it has been done. I'm sorry that I'm not more help with this, but I didn't do it myself. I do know that there is not a prescribed way to do it. The doctors don't seem to have the method down to a science either. Don't rush. Just do what her body will tolerate without pain.
I didn't know about this method when I quit cold turkey, and I only heard about it around three months after I had already quit. Then I kept thinking I'd get better any day which turned out to not be true. If you're sick from withdrawal, it seems like for most of us that lasts a while. That's the only reason I'm recommending that your friend consider quitting slowly.
Best of luck to you both!!!
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