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Originally Posted by IdoubtIT
IT's common for pdocs to transition you directly from effexor to prozac, stay on prozac a while, then withdrawl off prozac. Sounds like you want to stay on the prozac, which works too. I wouldn't overlap them for more than a day or two.
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Yes, prozac is the plan as of now. Prozac has a very long "half-life" so there isn't much difficulty in discontinuing that med. Being med free would be great.
My GP writes my scrips and he wants two days between the last dose of effexor and the first dose of prozac. When the time for the transition comes up I'll probably play it by ear. I usually do lol. Fortunately my gp is a good guy and treats me as an intelligent adult and is fine with my improvisations.
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Originally Posted by Umbral_Seraph
I didn't like Effexor very much myself, making the cost unjustifiable. 
While I didn't have problems coming off of Effexor I know how bad withdrawal is; I was taking a couple of benzos at nearly the max for sedation and got so fed up with them that I just stopped them. That was not a pleasant experience....
Good luck on your transition.  |
So you were one of those lucky folks who didn't have the "syndrome" when coming off effexor xr? Good for you...I mean that sincerely
Having experienced the syndrome once I'm happy for anyone who doesn't experience it. I've quit a benzo too, albeit a minimum dosage. It was very tough but it didn't affect me as as bad as effexor. Props to you for discontinuing the benzos.
I do currently take a benzo...clonazopam, but at a very low dose...less than .5mg daily. That may help w/ the effexor withdrawal.
I've been opening the effexor caps and shaking out the individual "grains" for a while now. I haven't gotten to the point of counting the grains but I'm at a point where the quantity is small enough that I could count them w/o much difficulty. That will come soon. I don't want to cut the dosage down too quickly. I know that the commonly accepted institutional method of halving the dosage for one week and then halving that for another week doesn't work for me.
I suspect that it doesn't work for most folks who are susceptible to the discontinuance syndrome.
No really bad effects so far. The brain zaps are very minor so far and the headache isn't bad. If it doesn't get much worse I'll be okay.
I hope the prozac works as well as it did the previous time I used it.
Thanks for the good wish...I'll probably need it at some point
As always, good wishes to you and everyone else struggling.