If you have any more problems coming off it, check out the book Breaking Your Prescribed Addiction by Billie Sahley and another lady. They're nurse practioners with lots of other degrees who run a stress center or something, and use amino acids and other nutrients to replace what they meds are doing to your brain. You can find the book on Amazon.com, and their website by googling her name.

Going off Effexor just about killed me. It wasn't that I was afraid I was going to die, I was afraid I won't, and would have to live through the nightmare of it. It triggered the kind of insomnia where I didn't get past stage one sleep for ten months, and even now, my sleep is a disaster.

Good luck......