Around one in six people who stop antidepressants will experience withdrawal symptoms as a direct result of the medicine – lower than previous estimates, according to the largest study of its kind. A ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’m taking an antidepressant and am concerned that when my doctor instructs me to quit taking it I’ll go through withdrawal. Can this happen? What can I expect? It can happen, but ...

A recent Lancet Psychiatry study revealed that around 15% or one in six patients who discontinue using antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms. Antidepressants like desvenlafaxine, venlafaxine, ...

In his book The Antidepressant Solution, Harvard physician Joseph Glenmullen, MD, uncovers the problem of antidepressant withdrawal that’s not discussed in most doctors’ offices. “Research has shown,” ...

When Tabitha Dow was six, she had her first migraine. Now and again she’d be stuck with headaches, but when she hit 29 they became more regular and more severe. Soon her migraines were debilitating, ...

Q: I tried to get off Effexor XR (venlafaxine) a few years ago, and the results were typical: agony, muscle aches, "brain zaps" and a depression worse than I had before starting on the drug. Six ...

Q. I tried to get off Effexor XR (venlafaxine) a few years ago, and the results were typical: agony, muscle aches, “brain zaps” and a depression worse than I had before starting on the drug. Six ...

When Gina O’Brien decided she no longer needed drugs to quell her anxiety and panic attacks, she followed doctor’s orders by slowly tapering her dose of the antidepressant Paxil. The gradual ...

Dear People's Pharmacy: I have a caution about Effexor, which I took for hot flashes. I had to go out of town suddenly and ran out of pills because I couldn't get the prescription refilled before ...