Weaning Slowly
Friday, July 7th, 2000 (continued). This is a response to someone’s question about weaning (I don’t have their original message):
From what I know (and I’ve learned an amazing amount in the past 24 hours), dropping from 40mg to 20mg is too fast. Just today I had to go back on it after six days of hell after going cold turkey (doctor’s orders, the cold turkey that is). Once I get back to myself again (already the brain zaps are gone), I plan to ease myself off as slowly as I can — I don’t care how long it takes as long as I can get off it. No matter how you do it, though, everyone says to go slow; you cannot rush it.