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After a month on 37.5 mg. Eff my anxiety and trembling were so bad that my doc and I decided to go back up to 75mg
She said I should start feeling better within a week. A week is over and I’m still anxious, trembling and now have headache and backache. I decided to would raise it again today and see if this helps. I don’t want to raise it but I am thinking that I may have to raise it until I feel better, stay at that level long enough until I feel ready to taper it much more slowly. Although I waited 2 months before lowering it from 75mg to 37.5 I don’t think I was ready to do that because I was still having withdrawal symptoms but I figured 2 months was long enough to wait. This was before I heard about doctor Horowitz and read his book.
Has anyone else had this experience with having to raise it back up and then tapered it much more slowly ?

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That's the proper procedure, raising the dosage to a comfortable level, and then tapering more slowly.