Is this a proper tapering strategy or is it a bad idea?

[[Ra...]]

I have the pills and don't really want to mess around with titration (not now anyways).  Is have a "high" and "low" day a strategy that works or is it a bad idea?

 

It's hard to cut a pill into a quarter.  I have 2 mg tabs so what I could do, instead of dropping by half a miligram each week, is have this "high" and "low" day.

 

Example:

 

13 mg today, 14 mg tomorrow, 13 mg wednesday, etc. (for 1 week)

 

The next week:

 

13 mg each day

 

Week after:

12 mg, 13 mg, 12 mg, etc.

 

 

Just curious if anyone has tried anything like this...

[Guest [ba...]]

Given the long half-life of valium, this strategy could work for a while as the daily variation is pretty small, and the long half-life will tend to smooth things out.  I don't think that this would be a large enough variation to be considered kindling.  The theoretical daily blood level variation is around 0.5 mg for a 13-14-13-14 dose (well under 5%)

 

When you get down below 5 mg, that daily variation may seem larger (roughly 10% if you're at 4-5-4-5 mg).  It may not be such a good strategy then.  As is usually the case, listen to your body.

[[Ra...]]

Right.  By the time I get down around 5 mg, I would hope the dr. would give me 1 mg tabs as well.  That's the issue as well.  I'm lucky enough for him to let me have 5 mg and 2 mg tabs, I really don't want to push it and ask for 1 mg tabs on top of that.

[[Ju...]]

Right.  By the time I get down around 5 mg, I would hope the dr. would give me 1 mg tabs as well.  That's the issue as well.  I'm lucky enough for him to let me have 5 mg and 2 mg tabs, I really don't want to push it and ask for 1 mg tabs on top of that.

 

Some one else please chime in about this please but I don't 'think' diazepam comes in a 1mg tablet.  Only 2mg, 5mg and 10mg. 

 

I had no problem quartering my oblong Xanax tablets with a pill cutter I bought at the drugstore.  With the round tablets I had access to at the top end of my taper, my pill cutter could cut them pretty decently into 1/8ths.

[[Ra...]]

 

Some one else please chime in about this please but I don't 'think' diazepam comes in a 1mg tablet.  Only 2mg, 5mg and 10mg. 

 

I had no problem quartering my oblong Xanax tablets with a pill cutter I bought at the drugstore.  With the round tablets I had access to at the top end of my taper, my pill cutter could cut them pretty decently into 1/8ths.

 

Dang.  I don't know.  I can break them into quarters but I get obsessive compulsive over it being exactly 1/4th or not... 

[Guest [ba...]]

The variation in going from 14-13-14-13 is almost certainly greater than the difference in your quarters.  Minor variations in quarters average out just like the 14-13-14-13 approach.  I can be a little OCD about things too, but the minor variation in quarters shouldn't be a concern for you.  Let that one go, please.

[[Bi...]]

You can split a 2mg in half easy.  Yes this should work if you willing to hold during the hard times.  It may get tricky at 6 or 7mg level once your CNS gets revved up.

[[bu...]]

I have the pills and don't really want to mess around with titration (not now anyways).  Is have a "high" and "low" day a strategy that works or is it a bad idea?

 

It's hard to cut a pill into a quarter.  I have 2 mg tabs so what I could do, instead of dropping by half a miligram each week, is have this "high" and "low" day.

 

Example:

 

13 mg today, 14 mg tomorrow, 13 mg wednesday, etc. (for 1 week)

 

The next week:

 

13 mg each day

 

Week after:

12 mg, 13 mg, 12 mg, etc.

 

 

Just curious if anyone has tried anything like this...

 

I did exactly that from 15 mg down to 9 mg.  Worked fine.

[[bu...]]

There are no 1 mg valium tablets, but you can easily halve 2 mg tablets.