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Advise on switching the form of AD- tablet to capsule My doctor has been tapering my venlafaxine for more than one and a half year now. I was taking half+1/8 (of 37.5mg) tablet. So the division used to be inaccurate. Thus on my request and my doctor's approval, two days ago I switched to using granules from the capsule form. Some days I would be able to use the original capsule-cover, and for other times I would use empty capsule available in the market (seen as red and white large capsule in the image below). On the second day itself (when I took the medicine in the empty capsule available from the market) I experienced anxiety and restlessness. Could it be due to different release characteristics of the capsule that I bought from the market. I tried my best to properly count the total no of granules in each capsule and count for the same dose as before. Any suggestions please. would it be wise to try this capsule form for some time, or should I switch back to the tablet form. If I can adjust to the capsule granules, it would be easier for me to gently and accurately taper my dosage.
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Angelique76 Tapering off Cymbalta, my positive experience
Angelique76 posted a topic in Introductions and updates
Hi all, I'm here to share my positive experience so far with tapering off 30mg Cymbalta. I reside in Australia where supply for me is prescribed in blister packs with one month supply per box and I've only been taking Cymbalta since April 2011. Initially I counted a few caps & found approx 300 beads in each 30mg cap so I started by removing 30 beads each day for ten days, then each ten days increasing the amount removed by 30 (100 day plan). My tapering plan has been more aggressive in timing than other research suggests & I've been lucky that this hasn't caused any ill effects (there are one or two days each week where I feel a bit dizzy / jetlagged but nothing debilitating). Also, I was not anal with the bead removal, some days the amount removed from each cap may have varied by 5 beads up or down. Once I got to the stage where I was removing half the beads & I only had a few caps left of my blister pack, I purchased some empty gelatin caps & started filling them each day using the beads I had saved from the previous daily removals & have continued with decreasing the amount by 30 beads every ten days. I'm currently down to an intake of 90 beads per day & I'm feeling good. Thanks to everyone else who shared their experiences that helped me to formulate my plan, good luck to everyone else who is in the process :-) Bead counting is laborious but it's worked for me so stick with it!
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