Hello, thank you for your article. It will be very helpful as a talking point with my doctor. I have one question, and I hope you will consider addressing it in an article. The process of crushing and weighing meds doesn't seem practical for most people, are there alternatives? Are there ways to buy specially formulated doses? Is anyone advocating for laws that would require the drugmakers to provide tapering kits?
Thank you for breaking this down into bite size easy to digest pieces on information. I have joined this platform to help my daughter who has been on clozapine for the past 6 years and now wishes to taper off slowly. Her psychiatrist has no experience with this and so it feels really challenging to have to constantly do all of the reseach for her doctor. After some robust discussion and me as her mum (I am also a nurse of 35 years experience) advocating for her she has agreed to 12.5mg decrease each month. She has done this the past three months with no signs of any withdrawal. I now feel better prepared to help my daughter keep going and to help her report side effects that may mean we have made too big a jump. I can also see that it might be possible to try a larger decrease at the beginning and much smaller ones later on.
I have just listened to your Metabolic Mind podcast with Dr Scher and are grateful for what you shared. My wife has been slowly tapering off Olanzapine (aka Zyprexa) for the last 7 months, she hit a bit of a bump in the road about 3 weeks ago where she had what seemed like a return of Bipolar 2 symptoms (for her; escalating agitation, mental pain, suicidal ideation). She had been tapering from 10mg initially dropping 0.5mg every 2 weeks, and later by 0.3 every 2 weeks with no issues at all. 6months into it, when she went from 1.89mg to 1.66mg (we are still very basic, cutting 10mg into 6), her mental pain increased suddenly. After less than a week of this noticeable deterioration, we made the call to increase back up to 2.5mg and take it much slower for the final leg of the tapering journey. Once she stabilises at 2.5mg (hopefully), we will certainly heed your advice of tapering by 3-10% for this last stretch. Any advice on measuring accurate reductions in the order of 3-10% of say 1.89mg?
I just listened to your podcast on metabolic mind. It was wonderful. I am a health coach and work with addiction, metabolic disorders and autism coaching. I’m so glad you mentioned keto at the end . I have a client who is tapering off benzos and has been using six meds for years. I have sent her your podcast and hope it quells some of her fears. I’m carnivore myself and have received numerous benefits. When I was on Prozac in my 30’s for about 6 months and used to call it club med because the numbing wa so welcome at the time. Then I started years of therapy and Buddhist practice to do my inner work. Bless you for the work you do…much love, Michele
Hello, thank you for your article. It will be very helpful as a talking point with my doctor. I have one question, and I hope you will consider addressing it in an article. The process of crushing and weighing meds doesn't seem practical for most people, are there alternatives? Are there ways to buy specially formulated doses? Is anyone advocating for laws that would require the drugmakers to provide tapering kits?
Thank you for breaking this down into bite size easy to digest pieces on information. I have joined this platform to help my daughter who has been on clozapine for the past 6 years and now wishes to taper off slowly. Her psychiatrist has no experience with this and so it feels really challenging to have to constantly do all of the reseach for her doctor. After some robust discussion and me as her mum (I am also a nurse of 35 years experience) advocating for her she has agreed to 12.5mg decrease each month. She has done this the past three months with no signs of any withdrawal. I now feel better prepared to help my daughter keep going and to help her report side effects that may mean we have made too big a jump. I can also see that it might be possible to try a larger decrease at the beginning and much smaller ones later on.
I have just listened to your Metabolic Mind podcast with Dr Scher and are grateful for what you shared. My wife has been slowly tapering off Olanzapine (aka Zyprexa) for the last 7 months, she hit a bit of a bump in the road about 3 weeks ago where she had what seemed like a return of Bipolar 2 symptoms (for her; escalating agitation, mental pain, suicidal ideation). She had been tapering from 10mg initially dropping 0.5mg every 2 weeks, and later by 0.3 every 2 weeks with no issues at all. 6months into it, when she went from 1.89mg to 1.66mg (we are still very basic, cutting 10mg into 6), her mental pain increased suddenly. After less than a week of this noticeable deterioration, we made the call to increase back up to 2.5mg and take it much slower for the final leg of the tapering journey. Once she stabilises at 2.5mg (hopefully), we will certainly heed your advice of tapering by 3-10% for this last stretch. Any advice on measuring accurate reductions in the order of 3-10% of say 1.89mg?
I just listened to your podcast on metabolic mind. It was wonderful. I am a health coach and work with addiction, metabolic disorders and autism coaching. I’m so glad you mentioned keto at the end . I have a client who is tapering off benzos and has been using six meds for years. I have sent her your podcast and hope it quells some of her fears. I’m carnivore myself and have received numerous benefits. When I was on Prozac in my 30’s for about 6 months and used to call it club med because the numbing wa so welcome at the time. Then I started years of therapy and Buddhist practice to do my inner work. Bless you for the work you do…much love, Michele