Venlafaxine again!!!!
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Hi all! My GP recently took me off of venlafaxine slow release from 150mg a day to 0 over the period of 2-3 weeks! This was done due to high blood pressure. I learnt a lot from people on here that it was done too fast, hence the severe withdrawal, so GP put me on metazapine 15mg! I've had a severe breakdown, depression back worse than ever, anxiety that I'd never had and self harm that I haven't done since a child, I'm now 48!
New Year's Eve, psychiatrist upped mirt to 30-45mg, yesterday psychiatrist put me back on venlafaxine 150mg and told me to also continue mirt!
On top of that, local GP has doubled my blood pressure tablets and introduced another medication to try and control the blood pressure!
First dose of venlafaxine 75mg last night had me throwing up and, sorry but watery stools!!!
So now I'm back to square one with 3 different lots of meds on top, shaking and dehydrated, just to name a few! I'm losing the will to fight anymore ๐
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elaine92718 Belinda7168
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I now take citalopram 20mg and seem to be getting there finally.
I also take candarsartin, a water tablet and doxazosin all for my BP.
The side effects I had withdrawing where horrific so I can't even imagine how you must feel. Your GP got it so wrong expecting you to be OK to just discontinue the Ven.
I hope things improve soon. You will get better once the drug has got back in your system.
Remember next withdrawal the key is slooooooooowwwww ๐๐๐๐๐
Belinda7168 elaine92718
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Thanks for your reply ๐
betsy0603 Belinda7168
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I think I already mentioned this in another of your posts, but I strongly encourage you to join Surviving Antiepressants if you haven't already so that they can guide you on getting off of these drugs! ย Like you, I ended up on mirtazapine AND Effexor, not realizing I was in protracted withdrawal from Effexor, so I get where you are at!
I am slow tapering the mirt, 10% per month, because it caused me to gain weight. ย I am micro-tapering the Ven because it isn't good to do-taper, so I am now down to 29 mg Ven from 37.5.
I'm sorry you are a another victim of poor doctoring!
Belinda7168 betsy0603
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steph77910 Belinda7168
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Belinda7168 steph77910
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