Posted by clipper40 on February 10, 2008, at 0:30:23
In reply to There's not enough information to answer » clipper40, posted by Racer on February 9, 2008, at 13:22:04
Hi,
I appreciate your response. Sorry for not providing enough information. My friend is having a cervical (neck) myelogram and it's the doctor performing the procedure who wants her off of her medications for about 4 days prior to the procedure. The procedure is coming up soon so she will not have time for a slow taper. She's terrified at the thought of having to go through this procedure while also going through a horrible withdrawal.
She's going to see her psychiatrist soon and wants to have some information available to ask for help. I had told her to see if she could get a low dose of an SSRI from her psychiatrist - providing that she could get the physician performing the procedure to ok this - as I know that a low dose SSRI could help immensely in staving off the worst of the Effexor withdrawal. But I wanted to see if anyone else had any other ideas, especially if her physician performing the procedure wouldn't allow even a low dose of an SSRI.
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