Author: sweet16

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:45 pm

Greetings,
I started my taper from about 8mg. starting in August. 2011. Once I got to 2 mg I too began to feel the tapering a little more with each drop. I would say, 2 weeks between drops is a good goal, however the lower I would go the longer I stayed at that new lower dose because it seemed to take longer to stabelize. At one point my Doctor switched me from the 8mg strips to the 2mg strips to make it easier to cut my doses. I ended up going from 1.25mg. down to .50 mg. without realizing it. THAT was a blessing in disguise. However, prior to discovering that I had mis-calculated my dose I had thoughts of increasing my dose because I was so friggen tired. But once I discovered my error, I was so excited that I went from 1.25mg down to .50, the symptoms suddenly were do-able…It DID talk longer to stabelize, like 3-4 weeks though. I am currently on .25mg in the morning & .125mg in the evening. I have been here for a while maybe 3 or more weeks. I just cant shake the lethargy.. I think you CAN do it. It is reasonable to say that (for me)the withdrawl symptoms are not painful or horrid, just sort of drawn out. I find the most annoying of them is the lethargy, tiredness, lack of motivstion. DO NOT be scared of the tapering. It is so do-able. Listen to your body. If after you taper & you find that you stabelize in 2 weeks, GREAT for you. Each decreass will be different in terms of symptoms. Some, you may not notice at all. I would start to notice on day 2-3 and the symptoms would subside by day 7-10 and I would give myself a few days to enjoy being stable. The lower ya go the more (I) seemed to feel it. Believe me I want OFF too. I just do not want to be friggen tired all the time… It is the worst (for me) SO good luck and keep posting.. Hope this helps you.