Laura Delano
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first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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psych meds faster and have minimal problems, but others can't.
And the challenge is that right now, there's no way to know because there's no research that's been done on this yet.
There's no way to know up front if you are one of the lucky ones who can stop quickly.
And just to paint a picture of what slow actually means, people think that slow usually means, you know, cut your dose in half for a couple of weeks or, you know, cut it
You know, by a quarter every week for a month.
That's basically cold turkey.
What we have found in the layperson withdrawal community, which I should say right now is the world's leading expert on this.
Those of us who've had to figure this out for ourselves because we had no safe guidance from our from our doctors.
What we found is that making.
So increasingly smaller cuts around five that are around five to 10 percent of your dose each month is generally the rate that minimizes the risk that you'll have disabling withdrawal symptoms.
So to paint a picture of that, if you're on 100 milligrams of a drug and you want to come off at a rate of 10 percent a month.
Is that what people are on?
Well, all the different drugs have different doses.
For some drugs, you're on one milligram.
For others, you're on 1,000 milligrams.
It all varies depending on which drug it is.
But some antidepressants, 100 would be totally standard, like not for Lexapro like you were on.
So let's say you're on 100 milligrams and you've decided, you know what, I want to come off at 10% per month.
So in month one, you would cut 10 milligrams, 10% of 100.
In month two, you would cut 10% of 90.
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