Worse symptoms near end of taper?

[[Da...]]

I have been tapering from Valium for 16 months and am down to 4 mg.  The last two cuts have brought on much longer periods of more severe symptoms.  After my last cut of .5 mg on August 13 I had an amazing pretty good 17 days.  Then on August 30 th nasty symptoms started and are still giving me lots of trouble.  Have had maybe 6 or 7 better days in that period.  Do I have bad symptoms to look forward to the rest of the way down?

[[bu...]]

.5mg is a 12.5% cut from 4mg.  Yup, I'll bet that hit you pretty hard.

 

To control your sxs as you get closer to the end, you need to make smaller cuts.

[[lo...]]

nobody can predict how rest of your taper will go. some people feel better, some worse. i'm in same boat now. last cut was hell-ride. now that i feel somewhat good i am nearly scared of another cut. going to get liquid from compounding (too lazy to do it by myself) and will taper last mile in smaller but steady drops.

[[Gr...]]

I agree with Builder. I'm also tapering Valium. Going from 5 to 4.5 (a 10% cut) hit me pretty hard so I switched to .25mg cuts which were definitely easier.

[[Be...]]

Froom 3 mg valium down I have been doing .25 cuts and its alot easier than .5.