Lulu1819: weaning off Viibryd

[Lulu1819]

I have only been on Viibryd 8 days before I began my taper. Dr said to do 10mg 1 day then 5mg the next day for 1 week. Only been on the 10mg for 8 days. Then he said to alternate 5mg and no pill for 1 week. I’ve read on here not to skip doses but 2 Dr told me to wean off that way. Looking for advice. 

[manymoretodays]

Hi Lulu1819,

If on for a month or less, you might try reducing by 1/4 dose every couple of days.  So you'd do 10 mg, then 7.5 mg, then, 5 mg, then 2.5 mg and then off, with a couple of days between each decrease. 

Is this what you found :  NEVER SKIP DOSES TO TAPER ?

 

Why did you start Vibryd and then decide to come off it?

 

And what is your previous drug experience?  You'll be able to make that clearer by doing a signature.

 

We do need you to complete a drug signature, which is different from the confidential profile information you initially gave.  The signature when done, will appear below all your posts, and give us a quick reference to your drug history, and is very helpful to us.

Once you've got this done, we should be better able to advise you.  Just get some dates there or approximate dates, names of drugs and doses that you remember, previous taper or drug cessation information.  Then we'll all be able to see it below your posts, as a quick reference.

Click on the arrow in the top right corner, and you'll see what we like to see there.  You'll also find a link to take you to your signature spot as well.  Perhaps have a paper to jot down what you had put in your profile information, add dates, drugs, doses, previous tapering attempts........as mentioned, then make sure to hit SAVE when finished.  It's easiest done from a PC, but can be done on other devices as well.  Good luck, and thank you!

 

And then as far as symptoms, and other concerns.......those can go right here in your Introduction replies. 

 

If you have been on and off many drugs, you might be more reactive or kindling to new drugs or even old drugs retried.

See:

Post-withdrawal nervous system hypersensitity, hyper-reactivity and kindling

 

What is withdrawal syndrome?

 

I wonder if you or your doctors may be trying to treat previous WD(withdrawal) with other drugs now, and not recognizing WD(withdrawal)?  We can help you figure it out.  What do you think?

 

Dr. Joseph Glenmullen's withdrawal symptom checklist

there's a PDF in the ^ that you can look at to see many of the common WD symptoms.

 

This is our usual harm reduction method of coming off psychiatric drugs:

Why taper by 10% of my drug

 

More on your present drug and tapering:

Tips for tapering off Viibryd(vilazodone)

 

And I'll stop there for now.

Welcome aboard, this is your page now, your Introduction.  Post in a reply here further questions or responses.

Work on your signature and hopefully get that done.

 

Best, Love, Peace, Healing, and Growth,

manymoretodays(mmt)

 

 

 

[Lulu1819]

I now have my signature created with med history. 

[manymoretodays]

Wow!  Good job.

 

What is your symptom pattern like right now?

How often do you take the klonopin?  And for how long now? 

Of course this another drug that will often cause create dependency in as little as 2 weeks....and so......would require careful tapering later.

 

Here's what we have on: Antihistamines for withdrawal insomnia which does include hydroxyzine

You'll have to read through a bit, but I am seeing some great posts about hydroxyzine specifically there from Alto.  It's got a long half life, so may last awhile.  It may also go paradoxical, which means it might have the opposite effect of calming or causing tiredness and create problems that way.  It also should, if taken for any length of time, get a nice taper too........reducing by 1/4 amount every couple of days until off.

Are you taking it regularly on a daily basis?  And if so......for how long?

 

Here is another link for you to look at, you may have already seen it......but do give a good read through now

About reinstating and stabilizing to reduce withdrawal symptoms

We do go low, really low and often with the same medication, you last came off of.  This can be different from how so many doctors do it.

 

If it was me, I would likely continue off the Vibryd now, and do the more rapid taper.

It may feel bumpy.  And always good to try and do as much non-drug coping as possible too.

See Symptoms and Self Care

It's a whole forum, but do look at some of the top pinned topics.......so much you can do in the way of Self Help, Self Care, and managing

 

Tell me more about "worse".  And what you are experiencing right now in the way of symptoms too.

 

Fill us in a bit more.  Look around.  Good job Lulu819.

 

 

 

 

 

[Lulu1819]

Ever since I was taken off of the luvox, my head symptoms started. Pressure, headaches, off balance, dizziness. Just really hard to get through the day. Headaches got worse when they tried to reinstate Lexapro and continued with the Viibryd. I was not getting headaches prior to this. The head stuff has stayed the same since going off luvox. Now, mix in some nausea and stomach upset. 
I started the hydroxyzine when I went off trazodone so beginning of July. So almost 2 months. B/c of the anxiety, I cannot sleep and I really need sleep! 
Klonopin I’ve been taking on and off for about a month, almost 2. I started the Klonopin to help me deal with the symptoms I was experiencing. 
 

[Lulu1819]

Over the course of last year from July 2021 to June 2021 I only ever took 7 Klonopin total. 
Ever since weaning off luvox, I’ve taken it a total of 30 days but on and off. One here the next day or few none. Took for 1 week on then next 7 days nothing. It’s the only thing helping my anxiety and symptoms right now. 
I only started the hydroxyzine to help with sleep since I stopped the trazodone. I was not weaned off of that. Dr said to just stop it and take the hydroxyzine. 
If I take Klonopin during the day, I’m only taking 25mg of hydroxyzine at night. Not sure how to wean off that as they are capsules. I have no idea how to count beads as I’ve seen some do on here. 
I can try not taking it tonight if I take a Klonopin but I just don’t know how to wean off it and I need my sleep. 
I’ve done all the other things, room is dark, sound machine going, air purifier going, I drink a chamomile tea, I’m taking magnesium, which I have got a while now. I take 350mg. At one point I tried melatonin but it did nothing. Hence why I was put on something for sleep. 
Im just at a loss right now with these awful symptoms. Like I said it’s headaches, head pressure, dizziness, off balance, nausea. 
All my Dr says is it’s from all the med switches and going off med. 

I’ve had blood work done, blood pressure checked, a CT scan done and all are normal. 
I ended up taking the Klonopin more regularly b/c it’s the only thing helping me get through my day right now. I have to work, so not getting sleep is not an option and just trying to push through the symptoms well, that’s easier said than done. I teach so I’m on all day. I tried just pushing through and I was miserable. 
Im just sad and at a loss for what to do. I’m still working with my PCP, but the Dr who had me up and down on all these meds I’m no longer seeing. She basically was like well, I don’t know how to help you, so go see someone else. 
I feel like I’ve been just left to fend for myself. 
I am trying to get a new Dr to help me with what I am not dealing with. 
But that’s also why I came here. I fear the meds have done so much damage that I’m going to have to go back on something else but I don’t know what that is since I’ve tried so many things. 
 My Dr at one point tried to put me on Gabapentin. What?! I said absolutely not. 

[Lulu1819]

I believe at this point my system is so destabilized and hypersensitive, hence why I’m having to take the Klonopin. This is not what I want but what I must do to survive right now. 
As far as the hydroxyzine, I would love to wean off that but 1 I do not know how with the capsules and 2 with an already destabilized nervous system, I’m not sure if this is making it worse if it causes me to not sleep. 
Im basically a BIG mess right now. 

[Altostrata]

Hello, @Lulu1819

 

9 hours ago, Lulu1819 said:

Ever since I was taken off of the luvox, my head symptoms started.

 

Why did you go off Luvox?

8 hours ago, Lulu1819 said:

Im just at a loss right now with these awful symptoms. Like I said it’s headaches, head pressure, dizziness, off balance, nausea. 
All my Dr says is it’s from all the med switches and going off med. 

 

Your doctor is correct. Those are classic antidepressant withdrawal symptoms.

 

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July 2022 tried reinstating Lexapro. Did 5mg for 7 days then onto 10mg. 4weeks in this. Weaned back to 5. Wasn’t working. 

 

What do you mean by "wasn't working"? How did you feel while you were taking 5mg? How did you feel when you were taking 10mg?

[manymoretodays]

On 8/28/2022 at 7:15 AM, Lulu1819 said:

I believe at this point my system is so destabilized and hypersensitive, hence why I’m having to take the Klonopin. This is not what I want but what I must do to survive right now. 
As far as the hydroxyzine, I would love to wean off that but 1 I do not know how with the capsules and 2 with an already destabilized nervous system, I’m not sure if this is making it worse if it causes me to not sleep. 
Im basically a BIG mess right now. 

 

Hi Lulu,

It's okay.......I can only imagine.

Are you on the way off with the Viibyrd now?  Where is that at?

 

And no guilt sweetie on the Klonopin, okay?  I remember being in upside down all around rough shape mess.

On 8/28/2022 at 6:09 AM, Lulu1819 said:

Over the course of last year from July 2021 to June 2021 I only ever took 7 Klonopin total. 
Ever since weaning off luvox, I’ve taken it a total of 30 days but on and off. One here the next day or few none. Took for 1 week on then next 7 days nothing. It’s the only thing helping my anxiety and symptoms right now. 

If it helps it helps.  Could be that you have established some dependency by now, I don't know for sure.

Keep track, on paper from here on out, as to when you take it and at what dose.  I saw 0.25 mg and 0.50 mg in your signature. 

We can get someone to help you manage the klonopin.

 

If you want to try and quit the hydroxyzine just try and open the capsule and reduce by 1/4 of the contents every few days, then again, then again......until off.  I just wanted to give you more information on that, and it's not totally clear that it's gone paradoxical.  I'm glad it helped a little bit for a little while.

 

Answer Alto's questions please too, which were:

On 8/28/2022 at 2:59 PM, Altostrata said:

Why did you go off Luvox?

 

On 8/28/2022 at 2:59 PM, Altostrata said:

What do you mean by "wasn't working"? How did you feel while you were taking 5mg? How did you feel when you were taking 10mg?

 

Are you back to work as a teacher now?  Maybe you work year round.....I don't know.  Anyway hang tight.

 

L, P, H, and G,

mmt

[Lulu1819]

I went off luvox after a scare I had. One night at the end of June I got up in the middle of the night and felt so unstable and dizzy, almost had to hold onto the wall to get down the hall to my bathroom. There I felt like I almost like I was going to black out but did not. Felt very nausea and dizzy. Continued to feel this way even after getting back in bed and that ramped up my anxiety. 
After that, for about 2 weeks I had diarrhea and my anxiety was way up. I felt like the luvox was not working anymore. Or it wasn’t for me. Hard to tell if it was the luvox, the trazodone or Busbar or a combo of all that led to what happened. I went to Dr who did bloodwork, all fine, blood pressure checked and it was fine. 
So, my Dr weaned me off Luvox in 9 days. That’s when I started to get worse, meaning not just anxiety but headaches daily and the head pressure, vertigo/dizziness or lightheadedness. Hard to explain the hard sensation but definitely off and not normal. 
Of course it freaked me out and I convinced my Dr to do a CT scan and that was normal. 
 

When I say the Lexapro wasn’t working I mean all those symptoms I mentioned above were still there even after being on it for 4 weeks. I saw no improvement at all. Only thing I noticed was Lexapro did help bring down my heart rate. 
 

I will be off Viibryd for good as of this coming Sat. 
 

I did get my Dr to give me the hydroxyzine in liquid form to make weaning easier, although he says I can just stop it. I don’t know that I’m ready to until my anxiety and symptoms are manageable as I need sleep. I fear not taking it means I get very little sleep. 
I will def keep track of when I take the Klonopin. Right now I am taking .25 everyday. 
I’ve noticed if I don’t take 2 Tylenol before I head out the door for work, a headache will set in. Those started when I started weaning off the luvox and have continued. 

[Altostrata]

5 minutes ago, Lulu1819 said:

Right now I am taking .25 everyday. 

 

How long have you been taking 0.25mg clonazepam every day? What time o'clock do you take it?

 

6 minutes ago, Lulu1819 said:

I felt like the luvox was not working anymore. Or it wasn’t for me. Hard to tell if it was the luvox, the trazodone or Busbar or a combo of all that led to what happened.

 

Had other drugs recently been added or changed when this incident happened? Had you forgotten to take a Luvox dose, or taken it off-schedule? How many times a day were you taking it?

 

9 minutes ago, Lulu1819 said:

So, my Dr weaned me off Luvox in 9 days. That’s when I started to get worse, meaning not just anxiety but headaches daily and the head pressure, vertigo/dizziness or lightheadedness. Hard to explain the hard sensation but definitely off and not normal. 

 

Those were classic antidepressant withdrawal symptoms.

 

We see that when people go on and off psychiatric drugs, they often become hypersensitive to other drugs. After you went off Lexapro in 2021, it appears that is what happened to you -- you found other antidepressants "too stimulating" at normal dosages.

 

13 minutes ago, Lulu1819 said:

When I say the Lexapro wasn’t working I mean all those symptoms I mentioned above were still there even after being on it for 4 weeks. I saw no improvement at all. Only thing I noticed was Lexapro did help bring down my heart rate. 

 

You were taking 5mg Lexapro for 7 days, then 10mg. At what point did this bring down your heart rate?

[Lulu1819]

I’ve only been taking .25 of Klonopin Sunday and today, but will prob continue all this week. I take it in the morning, like 7am. 
No new drugs had been added in and no I had not forgotten my luvox. Not really off schedule, no. I normally take my luvox around 7am. During the summer months when I’m off work, sometimes maybe an hour later but usually not. I was pretty consistent with that. I only took luvox once a day as I was on 100mg of controlled release. 

So am I now just hypersensitive to all SSRIs? I fear I will need to go back on one but at this point I don’t know what is left or that my body would tolerate anything. 
Not really sure with the Lexapro. Maybe once I was on 10mg I noticed my heart rate go down, which was a relief as I thought it was working but I still had all those other symptoms so then I thought nope must not be. That was my attempt at reinstating it after it pooped out on me in June of 2021. I thought it’s been a year, let’s give it another try. 

[Altostrata]

22 minutes ago, Lulu1819 said:

Maybe once I was on 10mg I noticed my heart rate go down, which was a relief as I thought it was working but I still had all those other symptoms

 

What were the other symptoms? How diid taking Lexapro in July affect your sleep?

[Lulu1819]

Sleep was better. I still had headaches, head pressure, lightheaded and just in general head felt very weird and off, esp as I would walk around throughout the day, like I was sensitive to movement. I don’t really know how to explain it other than my head just felt off. It was and is an awful feeling b/c I feel off balance. 

[Altostrata]

It sounds like you had withdrawal from prior antidepressants, and Lexapro helped a bit, but you might have taken too high a dose, which didn't help.

 

If I were you, I might try reinstating 1mg Lexapro liquid. You can get this with a prescription or make your own, see Tips for tapering off escitalopram (Lexapro)

 

Please let us know how you're doing.

[manymoretodays]

Hi Lulu1819,

Updates?  Thoughts.

Hoping this finds you well enough.

L, P, H, and G,

mmt

[Lulu1819]

I’m 3 days off of Viibryd. Still taking .25 Klonopin daily and 25mg of hydroxyzine at night. Tried not taking the Klonopin today and by 11 was very nauseous and felt awful. I broke down and took it. Going to need to wean that slowly and I don’t even know if I’m in a place to do that right now with my body trying to figure out life without an SSRI. 
I’m not worried about weaning the hydroxyzine. My Dr. Gave me a liquid form when I’m ready too. 
Headaches do continue. I was actually able to not take any Tylenol Sat or sun. Haven’t taken any today, Mon but I can feel one coming on.  Prob b/c I felt so awful earlier. 
just trying to take it 1 day at a time and 1 med at a time. The Klonopin is going to have to be a very very slow process. I don’t know how to get .25 much smaller as it is a dissolvable pill. 
This is quite the process and very hard. I don’t want to feel awful anymore. 

[Altostrata]

1 hour ago, Lulu1819 said:

Still taking .25 Klonopin daily and 25mg of hydroxyzine at night. Tried not taking the Klonopin today and by 11 was very nauseous and felt awful.

 

This indicates you have become adapted to the Klonopin. If you want to stick with Klonopin rather than reinstate Lexapro, you should take it at the same time each day, on a regular schedule. Your doctor will need to continue your prescriptions. You are already in a position where you will need to taper it when you want to discontinue it.

 

Please let us know how you're doing.

[Lulu1819]

Well, I’m waiting to see my new Psychiatrist. I don’t have an apt until the 21st. Soonest I could get in. I’m consulting with my PCP right now. I don’t want to continue with the Klonopin but I must at this point until I can be seen by the psychiatrist. It’s actually a psychiatric NP who is overseen by a Dr with a specialty in psychiatry. So, I’m going to have to continue with the .25 Klonopin until I’m seen by the new Dr. I feel they will reinstate Lexapro or try me on Celexa. Then, I can work with them to taper the Klonopin as long as all goes well with the SSRI. 
I’ve previously taken .5 of Xanax for about 2 months and was able to just stop. I could also take it at any point in the day. 
Not sure why the Klonopin is so different other than I’m not on any SSRI right now. When I stopped the Xanax, I was on Zoloft. 

[Altostrata]

Any doctor can prescribe these drugs, it doesn't have to be a psychiatrist. If your GP is helpful, might as well continue with him or her. A psychiatrist is not likely to be more helpful for tapering.

 

3 minutes ago, Lulu1819 said:

So, I’m going to have to continue with the .25 Klonopin until I’m seen by the new Dr. I feel they will reinstate Lexapro or try me on Celexa.

 

Is it your intention to continue on an antidepressant?

[Lulu1819]

My anxiety is still so bad I think I need to but it seemed everything I tried did not work. So I fear trying another or going back to one I was on and it not work and have to wean off yet again. This is all my body has gone through the past year. 
This is what led to the Klonopin. 
My PCP wants me to be seen by the psychiatric NP. He also wanted a 2 week washout period of no SSRI. By that point, I will meet with the psychiatric NP. 

[Lulu1819]

I have messaged my PCP about weaning off of Klonopin. 

[Altostrata]

@Lulu1819, this is a site for going off psychiatric drugs. It appears you have had antidepressant withdrawal syndrome since going off Luvox only 2 months ago, despite the various drugs since.

 

It is likely your anxiety is from withdrawal, which destabilizes your nervous system, not a psychiatric disorder. Taking a benzo for some months is often effective for this type of withdrawal symptom, with a gradually taper of the benzo once your system is stabilized.

 

If you prefer to have your condition treated as a psychiatric disorder by a psychiatrist, please do consult a psychiatrist. We do not provide peer support for this. When you want to unpatient yourself and taper off psychiatric drugs, please let us know.

[manymoretodays]

I'll just add that it may not be as easy as you once found it to come off your klonopin.

See:  Hypersensitivity and Kindling

AND any reintroduction of usual doses of AD's may not go too well. They haven't to date, from what I can glean.

 

Alto's right.  Very unlikely you have any underlying pure "anxiety" disorder at this point in time.   If there is such a thing as a pure anxiety disorder, unrelated to situational factors.   Your system got thrown, way thrown by so many drug switches and likely a too rapid Lexapro taper as well.

 

I sure hope you'll feel more determined, and be willing to work with us with an ultimate goal of being drug free one day.  And I know it's hard right now.

You don't have to completely give up on your doctors, but I fear they may not be very helpful in de-prescribing.  We all are uncomfortable to some extent when we first become empowered to manage this stuff on our own.  Likely your GP will be more than happy to provide you with what you need to do something more harm free in the long run than what you have been advised to do by the psychiatric crowd.

Tips for talking to doctors:  How to talk to a doctor about tapering and withdrawal? What to expect.

 

1 hour ago, Altostrata said:

This indicates you have become adapted to the Klonopin. If you want to stick with Klonopin rather than reinstate Lexapro, you should take it at the same time each day, on a regular schedule. Your doctor will need to continue your prescriptions. You are already in a position where you will need to taper it when you want to discontinue it.

 

Do you want to go over your klonopin dosing while still here and before who knows what with a psych NP?

Do keep with the same dose, same time of day right now.  The more regular you can be with that right now, if it's just the 0.25 mg in the morning, the better.  It's fairly long acting, yet each time you might take an additional dose, it will eventually cause fluctuations that result in further symptoms.  Sometimes fairly quickly too.

And why risk it with another fast taper on that? 

 

Note what you are doing with all your drugs now, and how symptoms are before and after you take them.

Recording drug schedule and symptom pattern

open up the sample note in the first post to see how we like to see it presented here, just click on that arrow on the upper right of the quote.

Times on the left, full name of drug(s) and doses on the right, continued times on the left and symptoms as they occur on the right as well.

If you'd like to continue here that is.

 

Also avoid yet another fantasy of a new AD, at full dose will help.  I'm not trying to be rude, just a realist.

I'm sorry......there isn't a faster or quicker way to resolve your symptoms completely away quickly. 

 

Do not, however go into too many changes at once, whatever you do.  That just confuses things.
The Rule of 3KI's, slow, simple, stable

 

I get it is not a great withdrawal stability right now.

 

Will this help at all?

Techniques for Managing an Adverse Drug Reaction or Cold Turkey Withdrawal

and FT's, or fast tapers as you've been rocking and rolling for over a year with medication trials

 

Let us know what you want to do going forward outside of more drugs if you'd like.  I'm happy to direct you back to Alto, or Shep, or Frogie for benzo management if that is what you'd like.

 

By the way.  Just click on the underlined passages to get to the information in the links. 

 

Non-drug coping with anxiety:

https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/13669-ways-to-cope-with-daily-anxiety/

https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/5213-sudden-fear-terror-panic-anxiety-or-sensory-overload-from-withdrawal/

 

And so many things you can try........look at the indexed list in the first post in this topic:

https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/1112-non-drug-techniques-to-cope-with-emotional-symptoms/

 

Try not to let the anxiety be your guide to further drugging right now I think is much of what I am saying.

 

Hold tight.  It's a lot to take in at first, and maybe it just isn't your time.  I hope it is though.

 

Best, L, P, H, and G,

mmt

 

 

[Lulu1819]

I’m 3 days off Vibryd, which I was only on for 8 days before my 2 week taper. 
I do wish to be drug free and would like to taper my Klonopin. I will stick with the .25 for now as my body is adjusting to no SSRI. I mean I was on Lexapro for 13 years before that stopped working and the switching of drugs started. I’ve downloaded the schedule you attached so I can record my symptoms. 
I don’t want more drugs b/c at this point, I don’t think they will help me. 
I’m very scared of tapering the Klonopin. It’s been 2 months on it with either .5 and most recently only .25. 
I’ve asked my PCP for advice on tapering that as well. 
I only have the apt with the psychiatric NP so I can get more advice. If their advice is more meds, I will say I don’t think that is the answer right now. 
I truly want to live my life drug free. It’s so hard when I get mixed messages about what I’m experiencing. Most do agree that it is discontinuation syndrome, but of course there are some that say no you should be over that by now, it’s just anxiety you’re experiencing. 

[manymoretodays]

6 minutes ago, Lulu1819 said:

I do wish to be drug free and would like to taper my Klonopin. I will stick with the .25 for now as my body is adjusting to no SSRI. I mean I was on Lexapro for 13 years before that stopped working and the switching of drugs started. I’ve downloaded the schedule you attached so I can record my symptoms. 

 

Go ahead and do a days posting of more than just symptoms, get your drugs in there as explained in the quote in first topic.  It may well be to your benefit to split doses with the klonopin.  Best if we can see it all in a simple list pattern first, time on the left, then on the right drugs by name, doses, as well as symptoms throughout the day.  Let us know on your sleep as well in the first time noted of the day, or better yet, post 48 hours in the format shown in the quote box.  Put a date at the top of each day......that always helps too.

 

12 minutes ago, Lulu1819 said:

I truly want to live my life drug free. It’s so hard when I get mixed messages about what I’m experiencing. Most do agree that it is discontinuation syndrome, but of course there are some that say no you should be over that by now, it’s just anxiety you’re experiencing. 

I know, something so many of us have had to deal with.  You'll continue to get mixed messages, no doubt, from the medical community as well as friends and associates sometimes too. 

[Lulu1819]

I started filling in the log today. I’ll continue for the rest of the week. My Dr. Suggested taking .25 of Klonopin the rest of this week. Then on Sat start taking .125. Do that for 1 week. Then, the next week, half that pill and do that for a week. Then off the next. Is that too fast of a taper for me being on it for 2 months. I didn’t take it everyday but most days. In the beginning it was .5, most recently.25. My Dr seemed to think that taper was fine. 

[Altostrata]

2 minutes ago, Lulu1819 said:

I started filling in the log today. I’ll continue for the rest of the week. My Dr. Suggested taking .25 of Klonopin the rest of this week. Then on Sat start taking .125. Do that for 1 week. Then, the next week, half that pill and do that for a week. Then off the next. Is that too fast of a taper for me being on it for 2 months. I didn’t take it everyday but most days. In the beginning it was .5, most recently.25. My Dr seemed to think that taper was fine. 

 

I don't know, it could be fine. If you want to follow your doctor's directions, please take any problems resulting from this to your doctor. You don't have to report your symptom pattern here, we do not monitor doctors' treatment plans.

[Lulu1819]

I’m sorry. I came here for advice. I’m new to getting off of these meds so I wanted to get expert advice here to see if anyone here agreed with this plan. I’m trying to do what is best for me and I’m lost on who or what to trust. Thank you for your time and I shall leave the group as it seems that is what you are indicating. 

[Altostrata]

We can't suggest a plan until we see your daily symptom pattern.