Hi, well I have attempted this 3 or 4 times in the past and just couldn't handle it. This time I am sticking to it. I want to get off this med. because the dose I am on (262.5mg) is giving me withdrawal by missing a dose by only an hour of the scheduled time to take it. My doctor never told me about the withdrawal when he first put me on it, but kept uping the dose to avoid the withdrawal. He says i shouldn't go off it, then i saw another doctor and he said that dose is very high, and my doctor should not be uping the dose just to avoid the withdrawal. So I no longer see the original doctor, and am staying with the other one. Unfortunately the new doc. only sees me on a walkin basis. He cannot take me as a new patient. So really I am doing this on my own. I have done lots of research on effexor and the withdrawal. I am going down by half a pill (37.5mg) every 4 days. Right now I am on 5 1/2 pills instead of the original 7 pills. I am okay so far. I would rather go down this way and get the withdrawal over faster than the way i was before, going down 1 pill per month. The depression is aweful, the vertigo is horrible...etc