I suppose i could speed things up, since it is a minority that suffers protracted withdrawal, but i have read of people doing fine with a taper only to be hit hard at a lower dose, or a month after discontinuation.

Tapering has allowed me to maintain sleep, since i tried cutting my dose in half once, which caused me to sleep just 3 hours.

Ive also considered staying at a low dose of risperidone, like .5mg. It does help keep my emotions in check, and i have not had an outburst since being on it, which is almost two years.

Short term and long term side effects are dose dependent, so its not like 3mg was a high dose. I just didn't feel i needed to even be on that dose, so i am lowering it.

The only known cardiovascular risk that isn't dose dependent is tachycardia, and the chances of that are 1-10%. The others are either extremely rare less than 1%, or are dose dependent.
The EPS risk is completely dose dependent, and all other risks are either rare or extremely rare or dose dependent.

Kecanoe- How long were you on abilify?