[Melmo]

I'm taking 40mg celexa. The tablet can be cut in two, so I can go down to 20mg but I don't have a pill splitter to split the half. When I was going up I jumped from 20mg to 40mg, would it be ok to go from 40mg to 20mg?

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[healingme4me]

Pill splitters, are easy to obtain, in the pharmacy. My titration down, involved 10Mg, at a time, as did titration up. How did your pdoc, say to do it?

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[Melmo]

Originally Posted by healingme4me

Pill splitters, are easy to obtain, in the pharmacy. My titration down, involved 10Mg, at a time, as did titration up. How did your pdoc, say to do it?

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My dr didnt tell me how. I told him I wanted off all my meds (I take 150mg Lamotrogine, 40mg Celexa and 75mg topiramate) and he said he thinks I should stay on the anti depressants at least until February-April because of seasonal depression. He did tell me ultimately it's my decision. At the moment I don't know weather I will stop or not. I want off all of them, but at the same time I am scared of spiralling out of control with my moods, especially where I am going to be going back to work in the next couple weeks.

[Tapering]

Get a pill splitter. It is much safer and makes a better cut. Going down on things slowly is the way to go. I am going off one of my meds and really want to be off of it "yesterday"
I am going slowly and feeling better than the cold turkey method.

[Melmo]

Thats how I feel too lol, I wanna be off NOW...I am tempted to just do cold turkey but I probably wont.

[healingme4me]

Originally Posted by JustWantToBeNormal

My dr didnt tell me how. I told him I wanted off all my meds (I take 150mg Lamotrogine, 40mg Celexa and 75mg topiramate) and he said he thinks I should stay on the anti depressants at least until February-April because of seasonal depression. He did tell me ultimately it's my decision. At the moment I don't know weather I will stop or not. I want off all of them, but at the same time I am scared of spiralling out of control with my moods, especially where I am going to be going back to work in the next couple weeks.

If waiting, two to four more months, to get weaned off meds, isn't an option. Call pdoc, and request a safe taper schedule. Don't need to land in the hospital, by taking matters into your own hands, and wind up with a nasty reaction, to the wrong taper schedule.

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[reesecups]

I just did what you are planning. I titrated myself down from 40mg to 20mg. I was hypomanic for about two weeks, then crashed. YMMV. I tried going down by splitting the 1/2 a pill, without much success. And only went a few days before I basically realized that I had done the titration ing too soon, and needed to go back on. So PLEASE be careful. I know you probably are like me and just want to pitch them and be done with it, but that is not the answer. You may end up with a worse reaction than what I had.

Good luck.