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Ursprungligen postat av Bobblan
Tjena!
Har velat sluta med min dos Venlafaxin 75mg en längre tid och hade ett möte förra veckan med min läkare.
Han sa att jag kunde sluta tvärt med det eftersom det är en liten dos jag tar.
Jag har tagit denna medicinen i säkert 5 år nu.
Har nu varit utan den i 3 dagar och känner mig verkligen inte okej.
Yrsel, overklighetskänsla, domningar i ansiktet, svettningar, illamående och detta känner jag ständigt och väldigt påtagligt.
Finns det någon här som också har slutat med liknande läkemedel tvärt som kan dela upplevelser?
Hur lång tid tar det innan man blir sig själv igen?
Är det okej att sluta tvärt?
Efter vad jag läst så verkar inte andra läkare rekommendera detta?
Finns det någon insatt som har några tips eller har slutat på annat vis till exempel nedtrappning?
Saxat från crazymeds.us:
How to Stop Taking Effexor (venlafaxine)
Unless you need to discontinue Effexor XR at a more rapid rate due to a nasty side effect, your doctor should be recommending that you reduce your dosage by 37.5mg a day every week if you need to stop taking it, if not more slowly than that. You shouldn’t be doing it any faster than that unless it’s an emergency. Yes, that means if you’ve maxed out at 375mg a day it could take up to 10 weeks to get off of Effexor (venlafaxine). You can try it faster and hope it works out, and since the odds are actually with you it’s worth doing at the higher dosages and reduce the rate once you’re down to half of what you used to take, but it’s hardly a sure thing. Once you get down to that last 37.5mg a day you have several options:
If the discontinuation symptoms you’re experiencing are mild, if you’re experiencing any at all, then you may as well stop taking it. You’re in the plurality of people who have taken either version of Effexor who could stop taking Effexor (venlafaxine) without too much of a hassle.
If the brain zaps or shivers and other discontinuation symptoms are still bad you can try taking one 37.5mg capsule every other day, or getting a prescription for generic venlafaxine in the immediate-release form and working your way down. As immediate-release venlafaxine comes in a variety of dosages you have all sorts of ways you and your doctor can work out a discontinuation schedule from there.
If you still can’t stop taking it at a low dosage, you and your doctor may want to try Prozac (fluoxetine) prescription or samples. Generic fluoxetine will even do. 10mg a day is all you should need. Even with the proper discontinuation stopping the last 37.5mg can be hellish. Taking two weeks worth of Prozac (fluoxetine) will make the discontinuation a lot easier. So when you’re off of Effexor and you cannot function, get on the Prozac for a week or two, then stop taking the Prozac. By that time you should find you’ll have either no discontinuation syndrome, or it won’t be nearly as bad.
If worse comes to worst, there’s always the liquid Prozac. Then you can work your way down from the equivalent of 10mg, or higher if 10mg was too low, to ever-so-slowly try to wean yourself off of the serotonergic part of Effexor that had its claws in you.
Killarna bakom crazymeds.us kan sina mediciner.
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