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A member asked:

In going cold turkey from effexor, (venlafaxine) does the norepinephrine increase or decrease?

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Dr. Felix Brizuela answered

Specializes in Neurology

Increase: it is believed that your norepinephrine levels increase when you withdrawl from drugs like effexor (venlafaxine) due to a surge of release from suddenly stopping the drug, but serotonin is the biggest issue when you withdrawl from some of this class of drugs, so called "serotonin syndrome"

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Answered 8/14/2017

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