Posted by delna on May 11, 2003, at 9:54:27
In reply to Re: Tapering down?? » jb07, posted by Maureen17 on May 8, 2003, at 21:58:04
I did well on 300 mg but eventually went into a manic state. Initially it did lift the depressiion and get rid of all the ocd symptoms. well later i was out of control.
i finally got off it. withdrawal was hard as my doc tried to reduce too fast. i had all the usual symptoms as well as hearing voices.
my evental tapering statergy was good. from 300 i cut drastically to 225. i realised that for me withdrawal started when the dose became very low
so every few days i dropped drasticlly. till i reached 75. i stayed put at 75 till i was used to it ( 1 weak) and then went down to 35.5.
This is when i reduces v v gradually. almost little bits cut off every few days. when the last bit was there i stayed put for a week at least. then took every 2nd day , every 3rd and so on- till i was off.
i'm bck on it now at 150 as this is the only antidep that helped me ever. ofcourse now ith a mood stabaliser.
delna
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