I was on Venlafaxine 75mg for around a year and it worked great, I had previously been in sertraline but found the Venlafaxine let me live my life and actually feel normal instead of ‘emotionally blunt but at least not depressed’. I still experienced manageable anxiety but decided to go up to 112.5kg to see if the experience could be even better. During that time I went through a breakup and barely felt a thing so I came back down to 75mg and felt normal again, but I noticed how my sex drive completely disappeared which was lowkey probably a factor of the breakup.
In the last few months I was formally diagnosed with ADHD and started 30mg tyvense which has been actually life changing, so much to the point I decided to come off antidepressants about 3 weeks ago. The initial physical symptoms were awful but I took a bunch of supplements, stayed active and cleared my calendar as much as possible (I’m a college student so that wasn’t really a big deal). I actually have a sex drive for the first time in my life and it’s amazing, but I’m such a bitch. Like I’m so irritable, cry at the drop of a hat, and have such severe emotional highs and lows like I’m a teenager before I started any sort of medication. I think I might have fucked up by going cold turkey (my doctor said I could if I wanted but also prescribed 3 months 37.5mg for a taper).
Basically, I’m wondering if I should roll back my cold turkey and take the 37.5mg to stabilise my mood and then try to work down or just keep going since the worst part of cold turkey is done? I should also note that since quitting nicotine and antidepressants in pretty close succession my adhd meds barely work anymore, so I’m thinking of mabye adjusting that dosage instead? I live in a country where I have very affordable and easy access to healthcare so I’m willing to play around with it a bit, any opinions are appreciated. Thank you!