@bdizjr
Good morning & Happy Holidays,
I hope your fine this Christmas morning.
You were given some top notch advice by @texasduchess.
I want to alert you to only one other thing. You tapered at a set rate (37.5mg) per month. When you look at it from a percentage standpoint your taper wasn’t so slow or smooth. If my calculations are correct (And I wouldn’t bet money on them) you started with a 25% decrease then the next month decreased by 33% and then 50%, so it was anything but slow as you describe. It’s better to choose a particular percentage and stay there.
It is incomprehensible to me how someone can take a medication for 10, 20 or 30 years than expect to get off it in such a short time or worse stopping cold turkey. A lady here stopped cold turkey after 30 years and had a stroke.
Your best chance for a totally uneventful taper is to do it slowly. Oh yes, one more thing. Here is a link to micro-tapering at Cinderella therapeutics,
https://www.cinderella-tx.org/en/
Blessings,
Jake