The only possible way I could get off Effexor was to SLOOOOOOOOOOOLY reduce the amount in each capsule -- we got a big jar of gelatin capsules and my husband did the measuring on a sensitive little digital scale -- half the dose for a month, then half again for a month, then half again for a month -- that went on for well over a year, before i could get completely free of them; at the end I think there was maybe 2-3 GRAINS of medicine in the damn capsules. But any faster and I got these full-body ZZZZZT! type charges, felt like I plugged my brain into household current for 5 seconds.
Andria
I just got unbearably cranky and like I said, a nightmare. Not quite so bad, had worse happen on Prozac. I was close to a full psychotic break on it. My psychologist asked me on the phone, "know you're nuts?" My taking a bit scared him and so he reminded me I was in charge. "you want off, I agree. You don't want what it is trying to do. I know you've got things left inside for good reason. Put the PA back on."
Oddly, a few years later some dumb f-- psychologist tells me, "you need to relax, let your guard down and give yourself permission to be outwardly angry. It's okay to be angry." He didn't like the tone of my "maybe for normal folks", reply. What to me seemed idiotic, surreal was that he had been a full bird three star colonel in the Army. He knew what I am, who I am ... at least he ought to had enough sense to recognize something more than on the table. Nah, not him ... "Let's be all Doc Spock and tell you, You're okay, I'm Okay". *smh*
I'll come off of it mamma, even if I go hard through a day. It'll work itself out. Not quite ready to make that kind of jump just yet. Still feeling like another shoe needs to drop even knowing it's not going to, or so I hope not. Need my Lady in a little better place too, need her to not get scared and flip. Don't think she will but well, you know husbands keeping mamas safe. She didn't know I was wanting off of it. Sure I'm in charge still but I need to know she's alright too, part of the whole being in charge gig.
Been dosing with, eating orange marmalade. Get enough C in me, can step off nearly anything cold. The C will give the body a buffer until I get get B12 going and then level off and urinate out any excess C with no foul done. ooops, done it before? Hm, ... maaaaybe.
I started that recipe at 31%, and it tasted GREAT... and I double-damn guarantee you it's 99% safer than smoking even one cigarette.
). We don't really have any firm plans for the Fed refund, other than just more debt clearing -- I may FINALLY be able to finish paying the surgeon for my 2014 appendectomy! 
