Fear

Posted by tiateacake @tiateacake, Feb 16 10:00pm

On my last week of 4mg and it has not been too bad. Sleeping much better but that might be due to the Vit B complex I have been taking for a while now. But I am finding myself a little afraid about next week on 3mg. I guess the phase, nothing to fear but fear itself comes into play on this one. I know it will be fine but it is daunting.

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Howdy! | @kereno | Feb 18 3:28pm

Thank you. That's good information. And empowering! Your rheumatologist put the dosage in your hands, I take it. That makes sense to me. Doing so we learn to read our body's response to medications and dose accordingly by slowing it down incrementally or in terms of time--or speeding it up, I suppose. I haven't heard a downside to slowing down the tapering period, other than our wanting to be off drugs entirely and wanting to limit their side-effects.