130 mgs and counting down.

     It was really a pain to take the capsules apart and count all those little beads, but I'm determined to get off this medication so I sat down with the new bottle with the generic pills in it.  I was not looking forward to the task but to my surprise, when I pulled open the capsule, more uniform sized beads fell into the bowl and there were fewer.  When I counted them, thank God, there were exactly 150.  This makes getting off this stuff much better. I could count the beads down to 130 and know that I was down 20 mgs. for sure. So with the generic brand Venlafaxine, I was at 130 mgs. and was doing good.  I wasn't having too much fatigue and I felt good. The other key to this for me, is that I stopped taking the dose on a Friday and switched to the lower dose on Saturday.  That gives me Saturday and Sunday to feel crappy if it happens and it hasn't yet, but it gives me time to adjust if it feels like I have gone too low too soon.