When I started my Ativan taper my doctor put me on 7.5 mg of Remeron for sleep. It really helped my sleep but I was a zombie all the next day. I got a rare side effect from the meds and also felt more depressed so I thought I was going to have to go off but worried about tapering two drugs at once. I decided to start experimenting by slowly lowering the dose by cutting the pill. I was going to go as low as I could and still sleep. After getting down to 1/2 of the pill which is 3.75 mg I asked my doctor to call it in to a compounding pharmacy in a liquid form which she gladly did. I slowly worked my way down to 1.80 mg. I am sleeping well at this dose and figure when I finish my Ativan taper I can slowly taper the Remeron. I also thought of possibly continuing the Remeron after the taper as insomnia was the reason I ended up on the Ativan to begin with! My Ativan taper is very slow and sometimes I feel like speeding it up. My brain is very sensitive to medications. I was on 0.5 Ativan for about 7 months and stopped cold turkey. Even at that low dose I thought I would die during the 3 weeks before I reinstated the Ativan and got stable and then started tapering. It is a long road as my taper will be 1 year 2 months when I am finished. ( I have 7 months to go) I also get Ativan in liquid form which makes the taper a lot easier, I don't have to cut pills, dissolve in water, etc. This is my 2nd Ativan taper as I did not learn from the first one. I successfully lived without Ativan or any med for 4 years and was doing very well but a bout of bad health and sleep issues made me start up again. They say the second taper can be a bit harder because of your brain already being exposed to the meds If you do some research online about Remeron is says that the lower doses are actually more sedating than a higher dose. Anyway, good luck to everyone who is on the journey of getting off medications that no longer serve them.