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hunter

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3. I once quit highest recommended dose Effexor cold turkey.
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 02:07 PM
Dec 2013

Not one of my more brilliant accomplishments...

No, really. Don't ever do that...

No, just don't. Discontinuation syndrome is a very real thing....

Great public service announcement, Locut0s. Thanks!

It's so frustrating there's no "magic pill" for these things, no lab test, no x-ray. There's often a lot of hunting around for something that works and it's not always meds.

Searching for the answer is a better path than not searching. I'm certain your posts here are helpful to other people on similar quests, maybe people who'd never post here in this group.

As a side note, anti-depressants are sometimes the way bipolar disorders are discovered, after they've set off a manic phase.

These are not drugs to use incautiously, or without some kind of social safety net when you begin to take them or when you stop taking them.


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