30mg-->22.5mg-->15mg

[Dubai]

4th Day on 7.5mg, I was tired waking up and had no appetite, went to the office and from 10-12.30 PM I felt horrible with nausea and anxiety and a trip to the toilet, so awful I felt like quitting my Job. gradually the ill feeling went away and by 3 PM I felt absolutely normal!!!!, Its 9pm in Dubai and I am feeling fine.

I hope its a one time event & even if I face a repeat going forward, I know for sure its my body adjusting to the lower dose and its NOT my illness coming back.

[Dubai]

5th Day, felt like I had a stomach virus wasn't feeling well at all, started feeling better after 4pm. The rest of the evening was fine. had difficulty falling a sleep, but eventually slept.

6th Day felt tired waking up & was worried I will have a repeat of yesterday, but to my pleasure non of that happened, I felt energetic mid day and was alert, the kind of alert that I didn't have for a long while, I also noticed I was more forceful in my talk with colleagues, I hope I wasn't rude, I love my team.

will update soon

[Dubai]

7th Day, woke up tired, started feeling energetic an hour later, felt great throughout the day & evening.

[Dubai]

8th & 9th day all is well
10th Day (Today) sore throat, major irritability, frequent Bowl movement, getting upset easily which makes me feel overwhelmed.

for those tapering, if you are going through something similar, please comment.

Take care all

[Sands]

Hi dubai. I am not tapering at the moment but wish to soon. I just wanted to say how well I think u are doing. Keep reminding yourself that u are bound to be feeling all over the place and in a little time u will adjust. All the best

[Dubai]

Thank you Sands.

I will keep posting.

I wish you the best of luck in your plans.

TC

[Dubai]

Day 11, I slept last night at 11 and woke up 11 am this morning, I haven't slept for 12 hours since the starting days of the medication. I still have the sore throat and little foggy. Too bad I missed work today. I think the 50% reduction is a lot, but I will keep at it and hopefully my body will adjust.

TC

---------- Post added at 14:58 ---------- Previous post was at 12:22 ----------

I came across this article, I find it to be good literature.
http://www.globalrph.com/discontinuation_syndrome.htm

[Dubai]

Day 12, went to bed at 12 and up at 8, felt very tired and still had flu like symptoms which lasted till 2pm. I started feeling better by evening & my throat has somehow cleared, slight headache, smaller appetite.

will update tomorrow.

---------- Post added at 22:28 ---------- Previous post was at 19:33 ----------

I read this in a medical report "More problems seem to occur the closer a patient gets to zero than at the beginning at higher dosages, so tapering needs to proceed more slowly at the end than at the beginning."

http://www.amednews.com/article/2009...h/303099976/4/

[Dubai]

day 13, woke up very tired and almost giving up on the taper, had major GI issues and 4 trips to the toilet between 8am-2pm. I got home an hour ago, 4pm Dubai time, my kids were playing football at the garden so I joined for a kick or 2 that lasted for 20 minutes of play. Overall I am still positive and mentally OK, yet the physical symptoms are just bad. I am still on 7.5mg & not even sure what to do next or when to do it.

[Dubai]

Is it possible to have more side effects from 7.5mg than 15mg?

Day 14, called in sick, woke up at 10, tired and little anxious.