
Hello, thank you for accepting me.
So, Ive been tappering of Efexor 150mg for about 1month now.
I was taking 75mg in the morning and 75mg in the evening, ext. Release version. Ive been on it for 9 months. 
My doctor recommended me to tapper of 1/4 of a dose every 4 days, so Id be off in less then a month. Since that felt completely insane to me, i started way more slow.
Im tappering by taking out the bids in the capsule, each capsule has 300 bids (so 600 in a day), and ive been taking 10 out from each capsule (so 290 and 290, and then 280 and 280, and then 270 and 270, ...etc) and staying on one dose for 7 days. So basically, 20 beads in 7 days. This is around 5% decrease a week. 
Ive been feeling like LIVING hell.
First week or so was okay, and then it has gotten worse and worse every day. I feel like im having constant, severe flu, body aches and pains, brain feels like its boiling every day, tension headaches, im tired 24/7 no matter how much I sleep. I sweat NON STOP and i feel feverish all the time. I also have vertigo, dizziness and weird brain feelings (had those before effexor too), but they are MUCH worse now. Ive tested for covid, since it feels like being extremely ill, always negative. Ive also had mood swings, pretty much every day. 

Can those things i feel still be from effexor, even if im going so slow?
If so, what can i do to help myself? I want to be off of this shit rather sooner than later but, should i go even slower? Is there anything that helps? Or this maybe isnt even withdrawal and its something else? 

Thank you so much.