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Originally Posted by Mamabug1981
To be fair, we did taper off, over the course of a week. But I was on a pretty low dose to begin with (20mg/day) that even tapering was as good as going off entirely, and my symptoms cropped back up within a couple days of the end of the taper.
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That's way too quick. Tapering should be gradual, over the course of weeks or even months depending on how long you were on it. I'm sorry that happened to you.
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