[PSA] tapering is not what most of this community thinks it is
tapering is not what most of this community thinks it is, and I say this having got it wrong myself for long enough to be annoyed about it. Nothing on this board is a taper schedule, and no member can write one for another. What can be shared is what people watched and what they observed. There is very little…
Agreed that returning later is common and it is treated here as ordinary rather than as a defeat.
interval stretching is the most commonly described approach here
Correction: that study measured regain after discontinuation, not loss of effect during treatment. Very different findings.
How long were you at the dose you are coming off?
That is a pause rather than a stop, and the plans for the two are not the same.
Is this a pause or a stop? They are different plans.
Stopped abruptly once and gradually once. The gradual one was easier to interpret because I could see what was changing.
Stretched from seven days to ten to twelve over four months. Appetite told me where the limit was each time.