Author: Karen2013
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:39 am
Hey, I have actually done both methods and can tell you from experience that it is not making it harder but actually (for me) easier to taper. The most important goal for all of us is to get off and get used to being off (helping our bodies adjust to taking less and less and also helping our bodies get used to the less and less). People sometimes dont realize the lower you get the affect of the drug in "duration" lessons. For me at 1mg..I can actually feel the drop more around 13 hours. At 1x a day…13 hours later..I start to feel the drug leaving my system and basically if I dose 1x a day.. the longer the day passes from that 1x a day dose..your body is adjusting from that point (so 15hours after 1mg…my body is starting to feel that EXTREME difference from 1mg to that point in day). If the drug wears off typically at 12 hours..dosing 1x a day..your body had more drug to adjust from. Dosing twice a day (splitting the dose) your body is recovering from less an extreme adjustment (ie. .5 instead of 1mg) AND your are allowing your body to also adjust to less drug more of the day..
I dont get to 0 if I havent already adjusted my dose down (1x a day or 5 times a day). As long as I dont dose up..when you taper, you taper (ie. when I get to 0..I will have tapered all my dosing times to that point). My evening dose will be 0 too. How is that harder then? The key is to dose evenly and follow your body to when the half lifes seem to wear off on any given point. I taper evenly. For 1mg..I dose .5/.5 For .8 I dose .4/.4. As Glen said, the duration of half life changes as I dose down Im just using the half life to my advantage. When I start to feel an 8hr duration..I will probably split up my dose again to accomodate "less" adjustment for my body to handle. Eventually it will equate out to 24 hour period on nothing..just like you at 1x a dose when I get down to the wee dose amounts. But, my goal is to ensure I make that goal of getting off. And at 1x a day…I was craving more Sub because I was experiencing more withdrawal since even at 1mg I was feeling it 14 hours later. Splitting…that little .5 lasted me throughout the day and night. I dont feel the cold/sweats now at 7p but I did when my last dose was 9:30am. When I get down to .2 in goth doses..I will adjust both doses
I will adjust as need be. As long as I keep it even dosing (for me) that works great. As long as I get to 0 that is all I care about.
If start to feel withdrawal after 0 in mornings and evernings.. i will deal with it. I think evernings are always hard with sleep and mornings always have their special place for me since I tend to do so much in mornings. But I will deal with it.
The last thing I want now is to make those two times of days harder. I may be stronger for it at 1x a day as I dose down, DEALING with more extreme drops the longer I go from that 1x dose..and the more I drop…but all Im doing is just making it harder.
I am may be closer to that 0 two times a day vs 1 when we get past 0, but because it was softer on the way down, I am more apt to handle the post 0 days. I will be able to maintain a level of ‘well being" more to prepare me for those post sub days. If that makes sense.