Around one in six people who stop antidepressants will experience withdrawal symptoms as a direct result of the medicine – lower than previous estimates, according to the largest study of its kind. A ...

A recent Lancet Psychiatry study revealed that around 15% or one in six patients who discontinue using antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms. Antidepressants like desvenlafaxine, venlafaxine, ...

Q. I tried to get off Effexor XR (venlafaxine) a few years ago, and the results were typical: agony, muscle aches, “brain zaps” and a depression worse than I had before starting on the drug. Six ...

Q: I tried to get off Effexor XR (venlafaxine) a few years ago, and the results were typical: agony, muscle aches, "brain zaps" and a depression worse than I had before starting on the drug. Six ...

When Tabitha Dow was six, she had her first migraine. Now and again she’d be stuck with headaches, but when she hit 29 they became more regular and more severe. Soon her migraines were debilitating, ...

Medically reviewed by Alex Yampolsky, PharmD Key Takeaways Pristiq and Effexor are both SNRIs prescribed to treat depression ...

Dear People's Pharmacy: I have a caution about Effexor, which I took for hot flashes. I had to go out of town suddenly and ran out of pills because I couldn't get the prescription refilled before ...

When Gina O’Brien decided she no longer needed drugs to quell her anxiety and panic attacks, she followed doctor’s orders by slowly tapering her dose of the antidepressant Paxil. The gradual ...