keepingdixie Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Hey hi, Just looking to hear from those who have successfully made a liquid solution of venlaflaxine and successfully tapered this way? Am half-way down having converted some of my XR to IM and cut pills but now need to make a liquid form as can't get smaller than 4.5mg odd with the cutter... Cheers! Prescribed the below after suffering from severe PTSD following an extreme reaction to just two days of Citalopram 10mg in the summer of 2015. This was prescribed for postnatal anxiety following the birth of my second child. I needed the below to get me out of hospital and back home to my kids. Ironic I know...needing drugs to help me get over drugs but hey, I've learned a lot on this journey. 15mg mirtazapine (remeron) DONE! 50mg quetiapine (seroquel) DONE! 225mg pregablin (lyrica) DONE! 150mg venlaflaxine (effexor) down to 75mg Link to comment
peng Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 Be interested in responses about liquid. Your cutter - what type is it, please? My cutter is poor. I try to cut the tiny 12.5mg Effexor tablets in half, but may have to resort to the pain-in-the bum bead-counting. Best wishes Born 1945. 1999 - First Effexor/Venlafaxine. 2016 Withdrawal research. Effexor. 13Jul - 212.5mg; 6Aug - 200.0mg; 24Aug - 187.5mg; 13Sep - 175.0mg; 3Oct - 162.5mg; 26Oct - 150mg 2017 9Jan - 150.00mg; 23Mar - 137.50mg; 24Apr - 125.00mg; 31May - 112.50mg holding; 3Sep - 100.00mg; 20Sep - 93.75mg; 20Oct - 87.5mg; 12Nov - 81.25mg; 13 Dec - 75.00mg 2018 18Jan - 69.1mg; 16Feb - 62.5mg; 16March - 57.5mg (-8%); 22Apr - 56.3mg(-2%); CRASHED - Updose 29May - 62.5mg; Updose - 1Jul - 75.0mg. Updose - 2Aug - 87.5mg. Updose - 27Aug - 100.0mg. Updose - 11Oct 112.5mg. Updose - 6Nov 125.00mg. 2019 Updoses 19 Jan - 150.0mg. 1April - 162.5mg. 24 April - Feeling better - doing tasks, getting outside. 7 May - usual depression questionnaire gives "probably no depression" result. Supps/Vits Omega 3; Chelated Magnesium; Prebiotics/Probiotics, Vit D3. Link to comment
Moderator Emeritus mammaP Posted May 31, 2017 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted May 31, 2017 Hi KD, welcome to SA. I am sorry to hear that you had such a bad reaction, and even more sorry that you were given more drugs in order to leave the hospital! You seem to have tapered very fast, not criticising but venlafaxine is notorious for having hellish withdrawal symptoms. It can seem ok, I tapered it for a whole year and felt fine. Then a month after stopping was hit by horrendous withdrawal. I reinstated 1mg and it took several months to stabilise enough to restart the taper. It took another 2 years to get off that 1mg without going into withdrawal. I am afraid that your fast taper will catch up with you. You might be best to hold the dose you are at for a while, maybe even a few months to let your brain work on adjusting. When you are ready there is a link here to making a liquid with tablets. http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/2693-how-to-make-a-liquid-from-tablets-or-capsules/ **I am not a medical professional, if in doubt please consult a doctor with withdrawal knowledge. Different drugs occasionally (mostly benzos) 1976 - 1981 (no problem) 1993 - 2002 in and out of hospital. every type of drug + ECT. Staring with seroxat 2002 effexor. Tapered March 2012 to March 2013, ending with 5 beads. Withdrawal April 2013 . Reinstated 5 beads reduced to 4 beads May 2013 Restarted taper Nov 2013 OFF EFFEXOR Feb 2015 Tapered atenolol and omeprazole Dec 2013 - May 2014 Tapering tramadol, Feb 2015 100mg , March 2015 50mg July 2017 30mg. May 15 2018 25mg Taking fish oil, magnesium, B12, folic acid, bilberry eyebright for eye pressure. My story http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/4199-hello-mammap-checking-in/page-33 Lesson learned, slow down taper at lower doses. Taper no more than 10% of CURRENT dose if possible Link to comment
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