WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for February, 2003: Re: Being weaned off Effexor XR 75mg

Re: Being weaned off Effexor XR 75mg

From: CarolAnn (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:58:27 -0600 (CST)

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Effexor isn't addictive in the sense of heroin or cocaine. However, the brain does develop a dependence on it. There is a withdrawal.

I've been taking it for four years and I am currently withdrawing from 375mg a day. It will take me a total of three months to drop off of Effexor - dropping from 375 to 300 to 225 and so on every other week. At the same time I'm titrating up with Wellbutrin, which is helping take the edge off of the withdrawal, but it's still pretty rough.

Nothing eliminates the Effexor withdrawal - it's the worst anti-depressant for withdrawal, although Paxil comes in a close second, and Zoloft isn't far behind.

Hang in there - this too shall pass.

-- CarolAnn :)

At Sun, 9 Feb 2003, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: > >I've been taking effexor xr 75mg for over two years, and now I'm being >"weaned" off the drug. I'm now taking 37.5mg every other day for two >weeks. I am extremely dizzy, and I can barely function. Is the effexor >xr physically addictive? I can't drive, read, think--any time I move my >eyes, the room spins. I've contacted my doctor and he says that there >is nothing I can do until the effexor is out of my system. I had no >idea that stopping taking the drug would be so difficult. How long will >I be dizzy? Is there anything I can do? Is effexor xr physically >addictive? No one told me this drug was addictive.

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