Posted by waterlily on July 28, 2003, at 21:39:28
I am going to start tapering off Effexor tomorrow. It was so good after the initial nasty side effects went away. I had energy, I had libido, I had my sense of humor back, I was happy and relaxed. The only problem was that I had to take Ativan to get to sleep at night. It worked well for me for a month or two, but for the past few months I've been tired all day. I have no energy and no desire to do anything. I do what I have to do but that's it. My husband says that I toss and turn so much at night that I get more exercise when I'm asleep than when I'm awake. I called my pdoc today and he told me to go to 75 mg for a week (I'm on 150mg right now). After the week on 75, then nothing. I think I'm going to take it a little more slowly based on what I have read here about how others do going off of Effexor. Wish me luck!
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