Just started taper with 50 ml 1 ml increment plastic syringe sans needle-dosage?

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It'll be another couple of weeks before I can get a glass 100 ml graduated cylinder. Right now I have a 50 ml plastic syringe in 1 ml increments with an airtight/watertight cap for the end where the needle would go. I don't use the plunger. Last night I mixed a .5 mg klonopin with 50 ml milk and removed 1 ml with a pipette and plan to hold there for 4 days for a .05%/daily taper, except because of the 50 ml increments it'll be in 4 day jumps instead of an every other day decrease. Will this be worse even at such a small cut or does it even matter? As I posted last week (two weeks?) I tried to cut at 12.5% which went to hell in a handbasket on the 7th day. I'm sure this will be much kinder to my brain than that. I went back up to my daily 1 mg. for about a week as suggested and luckily I feel normal now (which to me means minimal to no sx, which will change soon but hopefully won't get unbearable).

Please help me make sure I have this right. I take 2 - .5's a day. I'm crushing one, not both, and cut 1 ml of the 50 ml and hold for 4 days. Should I be crushing both at the same time and take out 1 ml instead? I'd rather not, to keep things simpler for a twice daily dose. And am I cutting at less than .5%/day? I feel confused about this. I'm in no hurry guys. I don't care if I have to taper for two years if that's what it takes.

I've cold turkeyed from 4 mg xanax a day after a few years before so I'm an expert in that special hell. My doctor retired and that was that. The next doctor cut me off cold. It took two years to feel 99% normal again. plus now not surprisingly it seems I'm kindled. I may have said 2 mg a day in an earlier post which is what I was prescribed but I took 4 mg a day. Never want to experience that again. I can however go through tough times knowing I'm healing even though it seems I'm not. That's all an illusion brought on by withdrawals or the drug or both and knowing that gets me a long way.

After I healed I stayed off of everything for a year at least. I always feel like I'm "walking on eggshells" and have exaggerated responses to stress when benzos are out of my system completely and I'm well as I ever get, even before I ever took a benzo. Then I started back klonopin about 18 months ago through my doc (my decision) and refused more than 1 mg. a day because of bad anxiety but now here I am again. The hell of  it is that it still helps but I can't live with the cognitive effects, or lack thereof I should say. So I'm getting off of it and finding other ways to deal. Again. Too many doctors move or die and leave you stuck to suffer horribly and that's the roller coaster as much as the drug is in my experience.

Thanks for any advice you have in advance.

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That should be a kinder rate than the 12.5% cut you previously made.  fwiw - you can remove 0.5 ml with the pipetter and do 1% cuts every other day, although I doubt if it will make much of a difference.

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That's what I'm thinking, it shouldn't matter.