Hi, I know what you are going through, I went through it my self. I had the same withdraws. Finaly found a doctor that helped me get off of effexor xr for good. she put me on 20mg of prozac a day for 2 weeks, while still taking the 37.5 effexor xr every other day. Then instead of every other day with the effexor xr, I would take the effexor xr every third day while taking the prozac every morning for two weeks. Then I stopped taking the effexor xr all together and still took the 20mg prozac everyday for a week. now i take 15mg prozac a day and will eventually stop taking it. while doing all of this i had hardly any withdraws. I owe it all to the lord, my husband and the doctor. So there is hope! You can do it too!!