I never asked my doctor how to taper -- but I told her that when I tried to go from 10 mg to 7.5 mg. (this is the type of taper I see and hear about), I became "jittery" after three weeks; then I let her know that I wanted to try the 10% taper that I read about on the website "Surviving Antidepressants" - to do that I needed her to prescribe liquid lexapro. She was fully willing to try it my way and prescribe what was needed.