hey from someone who knows about this drug from being prescribed 10 years ago afterwards i turned into health and fitness guru....
I may be the only person to have quit "sideffexor" cold turkey that I have known of or heard of, but I for one would not take No from the doctors,
In the 3 weeks of withdrawl i was arrested for public disturbance once and was very emotional about many things, I cried maybe 6-7 times about things and had quite a few fits of rage which included breaking things, other then that after about a month my life was some what back to normal and after 3 months i was back to normal aside from its toxic effects on my body which have took many years of eating superfoods and reverting the body ph back to alkaline.
I often believe some current day problems could be assoiated with these pharma drugs... word of the wise get off all pharma drugs, they will tell you to switch to something else but then you will just have to deal with the side effects of two toxic chemical vs one. I accomplished this in my youth when i did not have a career to attend. I also smoked a lot of B.C. bud which got rid of the withdrawls.

just my advice, It makes you a different person and can make you do wrong things but being on it another day is bad too..