66th Effexor Update - Feeling Poor

I reduced by another bead today. I'm down to 56 beads. Slowly but surely I'm chipping away at my taper! My biggest challenges right now are fatigue and not being able to handle stress. We had a relative spend the night on Monday night, and it ended up causing me a lot of anxiety and stress, which then made it really hard to sleep. After they left Tuesday morning I had to go back to bed and slept for a few hours. However, the fact that I was able to have them visit in the first place shows that I've improved a little, even though my nervous system is still so dysregulated. It takes me a really long time to recover once I have experienced stress. I'm still having some weird skin issues and also some histamine issues. I'm grateful that things aren't worse than they are because I know they could be. I will continue to plug along ever so slowly in my taper. For me, it's the only way. I like how one member put it: "Stability over speed." Sending healing strength to everyone today! It's great to see the community really grow with people from all over the world. Thanks to Based Psychiatrist for creating such a much-needed space for people to learn how taper safely! Catina 🩵