I gave this med a try about a year ago, and it was making me extremely lethargic amongst other things, so I decided to taper off. I bought a pill cutter and did it pretty slowly. A week at 35, a week at 30, two weeks at 20, a week at ten and two weeks at five. Those are approximations of course, as it's hard to cut a pill even with a pill cutter. But doing it slowly like that, I only experienced discontinuation symptoms a handful of times. I became very hyperactive the first couple of days, and experienced the "brain zaps" a couple of times when I went from 30 to 20. Other than that it was more or less easy going.