I’ve searched google and Reddit and cannot find an answer for why this has happened to me twice. Previously I was on Effexor 150mg daily, I was on it for right at one year when I began having extreme withdrawal symptoms. I was taking my medication at the same time every day. It’s like I quit cold turkey. My psychiatrist doubled my dosage to get it back into my system, then months later I moved to another medication to avoid that happening again.

Now, on completely different medication, this has happened for a second time. I was taking Wellbutrin XL 150mg daily for about 6 months. Same thing happened, I started having extreme but entirely different withdrawal symptoms. At first I did not know that’s what was happening because I could not find anywhere that described what I was feeling. I just brought this up to my doctor and she doubled my Wellbutrin dosage. The crazy side effects stopped almost immediately.

What is the cause of this? Is there anything that I can do in the future to avoid my body doing this again?