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Old Jul 30, 2014, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Mamabug1981 View Post
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.
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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