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8th Effexor Update - Feeling Poor - Mar 6
March 6, 2026··
Sadly again a bad day. Slept bad, woke up with glued eyes and mad face. Was in the garden for a short time. Kratom did not really help today. I‘m struggling with doing Sport, doing it limited anyways. Feeling depressed and angry, but also pretty fatigued about this debilitating condition.
The positive thing is, i expected to be in a kind of bipolar cycle since there was a pattern in the last 1,5 months and it scared me. It seems this pattern is broken now. But honestly i would rather have some hypomanics than this depressed stuff.
I will consider bridging to get off Venlafaxine and consider doing an appointment at the end of next week with a clinic that might be into tapering. I really want this to get better while hopefully avoiding the condition of being kind of chemically castrated again as i also had some improvements in the last weeks.
Steve’s taper progress
Dose (mg)
Mood (/10)
off Stimulants (2000-2013)
off Fluoxetine (2010-2013)
off Lamotrigine (2013-2016)
off Quetiapain (2016-2020)
currently Effexor — 33mg — 13 years (from 300mg) — actively tapering | with clinician
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