Posted by SLS on July 24, 2009, at 7:07:19
In reply to Scott, taper rate?, posted by qbsbrown on July 23, 2009, at 21:13:47
Personally, I feel that the 10% reduction every 4-5 weeks is absurd. It is an unnecessarily protracted process.
Once you get the Depakote on board, I think you will be able to determine a reasonable taper rate based upon the presence or absence of withdrawal symptoms. The key to prevent kindling is to disallow withdrawal symptoms to persist for any more than a few hours. If you feel them emerge, simply take a small amount of medications - just enough to cause the symptoms to disappear. I use fractions of pills to accomplish this.
It is interesting that Trileptal made things worse. I'll need to ponder that for awhile.
- Scott
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