After seeing the doctor, I kind of went on as usual until I received my new refill. Now there was a generic version and instead of burgundy colored capsules, I now had bright orange capsules. I was a little concerned that the generic version would be as good as the original, but so far it has been fine.
Before I saw the doctor, I had decided that I needed to get off this medication. I found a book called, The Antidepressant Solution by Joseph Glenmullen on Amazon.com. The book is excellent but don't just take my word for it, http://books.google.com/books?sitesec=reviews&id=Ue9iav5FZmIC reviews by others. This book gave me even more information about why a person needs to taper off these types of medications slowly and bigger reason as to why I knew I needed to get off this medication. The stories in the beginning of the book were perfect examples of withdrawal symptoms I was afraid of. I made the mistake of running out of this medication once. I had headache, nausea, spacey head and had to go home from work because I had missed one whole day of this medication because it was coming in the mail. On day two, I suffered from those nasty symptoms, so I knew better than to just quit.
I finally took the plunge and sat down on a Sunday morning, August 22nd with my pill bottle and proceeded to take the capsules apart. Tiny little beads came flowing out. The original effexor had multiple sizes of these tiny little beads, so I painstakenly counted 300 of these tiny little beads and made sure that each capsule for the week had this many in it. So my first week I had cut down the dosage but I wasn't sure just how much because there weren't exactly 150 little beads in the capsules. The first week went well. I felt good, no noticeable withdrawal side effects, but everyone is different. I had begun this journey and felt good about it.
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