TaperCommunitySupport for tapering Effexor/venlafaxine. Bead counting, bridging strategies, and symptom management.
This is the forum for everyone tapering Effexor. When you log a check-in in My Taper, it will appear here. That way you can see how others on the sa...
Recovering day by day…. Feeling okay. Been having bouts of dizziness, headache, irritability, and anxiety.
7h sleep. Felt pretty okey today. At noon i‘m getting irritated and restless due to boredom. Practiced Saxophone (difficult Top Tones, sry for my neig...
Only 5h sleep today, took a nap later. I felt bad and couldn’t wind down yesterday, drank a small beer, maybe that was enough to disrupt the sleep? So...
Dropped another bead this morning! I'm now taking 58 beads and am at 18.56 mg. It's one step closer to getting off this horrible drug. One more...
Feeling okay. Been having bouts of dizziness, headache, anxiety, and irritability. Getting over last heavy setback. Able to focus on work better and b...
Slept well 8h again. The day was worse than yesterday. I‘m more irritatable get angry easier. I also feel like i have touch of paranoia and shouldn‘t ...
It's been awhile since I've checked in, so let's do this! I've been quite sick for over the past two weeks with a severe cold. I got checked for C...
Slept 7h and well. Most of the day was pretty good for the 5th day od withdrawl. I even felt motivated and, yeah, quite okey. Now at night i overdid s...
Slept good 8h and had 100% sleep score on my watch. Don‘t think i ever had this. Mini dose cyproheptadine again. Today i felt more withdrawl while st...
Another rough night with broken sleep. Terror thoughts, headache, Panadol assisted sleep. Had a better day than previously. Still decided to hold and ...
9h sleep with a mini dose cyproheptadine (antihistaminic, antiserotonergic) It’s day 3 after taper and the day was okey and i did not really feel wit...
Haven’t updated for a while, had a good taper from 81-79, held for longer than normal decided to do 5% drop to 75, first 2 weeks no problem, 3rd week ...
Slept well. The day was pretty good, when the withdrawl started i felt alert and focused, even energized. I really would have liked to stay in that st...
Slept well tonight and tapered off the 1 one bead. Had an appointments (Kidney MRI) and made an endcrinologist appointment due to my (stable) pretty h...
Long time no see! I was struggling and in a lot of stress for Gigs, Bandbreakups, yearning for performance, also had some days of very bad sleep agai...
Feeling much better other than having some very mild anxiety. Not much else to say today, but I guess that's good sometimes, right?! If you're readi...
Still feeling a little extra revved up today, but it's better than yesterday. At least the headache and dizziness are gone. Going to get in a walk t...
Hello good people! My headache is pretty much gone, thank goodness. The dizziness also feels better. But for some reason I feel extra revved up by ...
The bead counting tapering method is a practical technique for making very small, measurable dose reductions in medications that come in extended-rele...
Only 4,5h sleep on the day of the gig,was very tired. But 7.5h sleep last night. The gig was strange. In a multimillion Villa inhabiting young studen...
Understanding the Effexor withdrawal timeline is one of the most practical things you can do before you stop taking venlafaxine. Effexor (venlafaxine)...
