Venlafaxine

I ended up in A&E today after realising I'd been taking 600mg venlafaxine daily for two weeks instead of 300mg. I'd been feeling awful and having intense chest pains and high heart rate but GP over the phone said it was just anxiety. A&E told me to drop straight down to 300mg and that I wouldn't get any withdrawals. As someone whose decreased venlafaxine before, I know going down by 37.5mg is hard...nevermind 300mg. Terrified of the next few days and what it might bring... #Venlafaxine #Antidepressant #withdrawals

I don't even know if I'm going it right... or if I should even be doing it. I feel lost.

I've been taking 100-75mg for five years... about a year ago, I reduced it down to 50, then to 37.5, I think.. I just recently I decided that I'm done with this. At least I think I am. About a month ago I started the tapering process.. a pill every other day for a week or two, now I'm pill free.. for about two to three weeks. I can't really remember that well. Being that it wasn't that hard, I didn't really keep track of it all, due to my life style and perhaps laziness.

The symptoms are kicking in all of a sudden and I don't know if I should be worried or not, I feel like I'm doing it all wrong and maybe I should just go back.

#Venlafaxine #Effexor #weaningoff #Tapering #AntidepressantDiscontinuationSyndrome #Antidepressants

I have BPD and have been on 150mg venlafaxine for the last couple of months and only recently has it started playing with my sleep and nightmares. Also as you all probably know I can ‘forget’ to take medications when I’m feeling fine and the withdrawal symptoms are horrific.
Has anyone found this medication to be beneficial at all? #Venlafaxine #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder

I’ve been on Effexor since November with no issues and it has worked wonders on me. In the past month I’ve started getting cold sweats during the night and night terrors probably every other night. At first I didn’t really know why but now I’m thinking it could be to do with the meds, does anyone else have the same issue? #MajorDepressiveDisorder #Effexor

Really struggling coming off venlafaxine, emotionally and physically. The guilt of being a burden through this is too much. Any words of encouragement appreciated. Thank you x
#withdrawal #Venlafaxine #CFS #HEDS #Depression

#genericdrugssuck !
I finally find a generic for Wellbutrin that works for me, now no pharmacy has it in stock!! I’m totally out, here come the withdrawals I go through this every 3 months when I refill my prescription. they say they’ll order it and I never hear anything so I call them. oh I’m sorry we can’t get that generic the warehouse is out!! the same thing happens with the generic for Effexor. last month I went 4 days with out my meds, the withdrawals were horrible!! WHY!! does this keep happening?!? #Bupropion #Venlafaxine #mylanbrand #zydusbrand