[Camellium]

Whenever people talk about the withdrawal symptoms from Effexor nobody seems to talk about the severe non-stop anxiety and how to deal with it it's all about the other symptoms which I would be perfectly fine with it's just the severe anxiety that doesn't end that I don't know if I'll be able to get through I'm thinking about cutting my dose again 275 but at that point my regular anxiety will come through and the withdrawal anxiety and then if my psychiatrist puts me on another antidepressant it will be the start up anxiety so I'm really scared. Any advice

[Edgy2018]

Try using Prozac to help get off of Effexor. The long half life helps (Effexor has a very short half life hence the withdrawal issues). I'm not sure why more MDs don't know about this.

[Camellium]

Thank you edgy right you are. I'm on 112th .5 right now. I think I will let Lexapro help me it also has a longer half-life. Right now I'm wondering if I should ask my doctor to switch me to tablets so I can maneuver them better.. But I'm scared because the tablets immediately go into your system so if I were on a dose of 100 it would run out in 12 hours. So perhaps it would be smart to take 50 during the day and 50 at night 12 hours later. I read that the peak of the immediate-release is at 2 to 3 hours and the peak of the extended-release is at around 6 hours. Do you know anyone that's try tablets