current state of the h-l (short version)

[baratron]

I have quite a few regular medications on repeat prescription. For some reason, I keep getting screwed up by weekends. It doesn't help that my doctors' surgery now takes a full 2 working days to produce repeat prescriptions. It used to be the case that if I put a repeat prescription into their letter box over the weekend, they'd process it on

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[mhw]

So I ran out of Efexor. Anyone who's ever been on Efexor/Effexor/venlafaxine will know what the half-life of the drug and corresponding withdrawal effects are like - not pleasant.

To put it mildly :(

I've only ever run out once, by one day, and that was quite enough. Fortunately my friend Karen is also taking it, so I begged some from her with a promise to replenish her supply ASAP.

I'm seriously considering asking my shrink to change it for something else. Last time I saw her she was umming and aahing about doing so, but I said that I know that coming off it could be foul, so she suggested boosting me up to 225mg/day to see if that helped. It hasn't. If anything, I'm worse. So next time I'm going to seriously discuss coming off, and make damn sure that we agree on a sensible taper plan.

[artremis]

meep

hugs?