Antidepressants After Surgery

[WoWGurl78 8]

Worried about this also. I take Effexor which is known to be one of the hardest anti- depressants to come off of. If I am even 2-3 hours late in taking it (usually on wkend when schedule is different than work) I feel it big time!! It's not a capsule' date=' so not sure about how it would be to crush it.

I don't think I would be able to go a day much less dayS with out it. I plan on getting off of it in the next couple of years, but I don't think now would be a good time to try.

This is probably my biggest fear...[/quote']

I'm on Effexor 100mg 2 times a day. 33 hours w/out it was horrible withdraw symptoms, high BP, freezing then burning up, nausea & dry heaves. I'm having to crush it & put it in something, so far nothing has worked to disguise the horrible taste. I also plan on lowering my dose cos right now I'm having excess drowsiness at this level.

[thishastowork 3]

I am on Cybalta capsules. I resumed taking them the day I got home. I had no prob swallowing .

[lessofmeismore 1,405]

How big are the cymbalta pills?

[alp50 18]

Wellbutrin XR comes in 150mg tablets which are tiny...you should have no problem even 4 days after surgery. I didn't.

Effexor...you should taper off before surgery if you have the time since you will not be able to take it for a few days. My patients do well going from 150mg to 112.5mg for 3-4mg days then 75 mg for 3-4 days then 37.5 mg for another 3-4 days and then off.

[thishastowork 3]

cymbalta: small capsules...I am 2 weeks post and I also took 2 tylenol caplets at once. No prob.