I wound up in the Er one night , I was borderline toxic and having my labs checked hourly to see if I might need temporary dialysis. I was done right then .. I was taking 900 mg at the time and had been for close to 2 years.. anyway my labs were always therapeutic levels.

So no taper I just quit it.

Overall I think it’s a good medication for a lot of people. It was the gold standard first medication ever made specifically for Bipolar after all.

The main thing to remember is all meds take time to actually start working and helping , well when the meds stop there’s the half-life issues and then the time your brain needs to revert back to function sans meds..

I truly hope with your taper schedule you will have a much softer landing than my train wreck sick for days and days going cold turkey was.

This is one medication that I will never take again.