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Old Jun 10, 2015, 06:38 PM
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Rapid taper plans can be difficult to go through. I went off my 300mg of lamotrigine at 25mg per week (12.5mg drops every 3-4 days) and it was trying. I completed the taper over a week ago and I'm far from recovered. I've withdrawn from multiple medications over the last year and did everything I could to promote recovery and recovery is still far from remotely complete. I'm currently finding it difficult to cope with experiencing emotions and agitated moods, which I attribute in large part to protracted withdrawal. It's complicated and there's little to no guidance to be had, but I have built habits and skills for coping which promote stability, such as regular exercise, a therapeutic diet, dark therapy, and meditation - I would not recommend going off of medications without first addressing the development of such habits and skills.
Yeah I'm in the midst of tapering lamotrigine too - cut by 50% day 1 but oh okay no fine now I am starting epilim which funnily enough was my mood stabiliser yearsssssssss ago when I was first dx. Not sure why I swapped for another MS. Scratching my head at the sense of that one.