Liquid Taper Update

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You are still misunderstanding what mg/ml means. The "/" symbol means "per". So when you say "0.01 mg/ml", that means "0.1 milligrams per millileter". So, you can see that it is a ratio, not an amount. Your "strong" solution has 0.1 mg/ml, so for every ml of that solution you take, you are taking 0.1 mgs of the drug. Your "taper" solution is 0.01 mg/ml, so for every ml of that solution you take, you are taking 0.01 mgs of the drug. Does this make sense?

 

Right now you are taking 0.6 ml (the 0.6 line on your small 1 ml syringe) of your strong solution 3 times per day. Since that solution has 0.1 mg in every ml of solution, that is 0.06 MG per dose. You take it 3x/day, so 0.06 + 0.06 + 0.06 = 0.18 mg (1.8 ml of strong solution), which is your daily dose.

 

If you wanted to take your whole daily dose out of your taper solution, which is 0.01 mg/ml, you would need to take 18 ml of solution (18 times your small syringe full)!!!

 

About keeping track of your doses, yeah, you would want to write out a schedule for yourself. Here's an example to get you started:

 

1.) 0.18 mg (am: 0.6 S, pm: 0.6 S, bed: 0.6 S)

2.) 0.179 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.9 T, pm: 0.6 S, bed: 0.6 S)

3.) 0.178 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.9 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.9 T, bed: 0.6 S)

4.) 0.177 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.9 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.9 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.9 T)

5.) 0.176 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.8 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.9 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.9 T)

6.) 0.175 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.8 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.8 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.9 T)

7.) 0.174 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.8 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.8 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.8 T)

8.) 0.173 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.7 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.8 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.8 T)

9.) 0.172 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.7 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.7 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.8 T)

10.) 0.171 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.7 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.7 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.7 T)

11.) 0.170 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.6 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.7 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.7 T)

12.) 0.169 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.6 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.6 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.7 T)

13.) 0.168 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.6 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.6 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.6 T)

14.) 0.167 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.5 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.6 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.6 T)

15.) 0.166 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.5 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.5 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.6 T)

16.) 0.165 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.5 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.5 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.5 T)

17.) 0.164 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.4 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.5 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.5 T)

18.) 0.163 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.4 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.4 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.5 T)

19.) 0.162 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.4 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.4 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.4 T)

20.) 0.161 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.3 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.4 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.4 T)

21.) 0.160 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.3 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.3 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.4 T)

22.) 0.159 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.3 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.3 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.3 T)

23.) 0.158 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.2 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.3 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.3 T)

24.) 0.157 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.2 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.2 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.3 T)

25.) 0.156 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.2 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.2 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.2 T)

26.) 0.155 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.1 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.2 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.2 T)

27.) 0.154 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.1 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.1 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.2 T)

28.) 0.153 mg (am: 0.5 S + 0.1 T, pm: 0.5 S + 0.1 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.1 T)

29.) 0.152 mg (am: 0.5 S, pm: 0.5 S + 0.1 T, bed: 0.5 S + 0.1 T)

30.) 0.151 mg (am: 0.5 S, pm: 0.5 S, bed: 0.5 S + 0.1 T)

31.) 0.150 mg (am: 0.5 S, pm: 0.5 S, bed: 0.5 S)

32.) 0.149 mg (am: 0.4 S + 0.9 T, pm: 0.5 S, bed: 0.5 S)

33.) 0.148 mg (am: 0.4 S + 0.9 T, pm: 0.4 S + 0.9 T, bed: 0.5 S)

34.) 0.147 mg (am: 0.4 S + 0.9 T, pm: 0.4 S + 0.9 T, bed: 0.4 S + 0.9 T)

35.) 0.146 mg (am: 0.4 S + 0.8 T, pm: 0.4 S + 0.9 T, bed: 0.4 S + 0.9 T)

36.) 0.145 mg (am: 0.4 S + 0.8 T, pm: 0.4 S + 0.8 T, bed: 0.4 S + 0.9 T)

37.) 0.144 mg (am: 0.4 S + 0.8 T, pm: 0.4 S + 0.8 T, bed: 0.4 S + 0.8 T)

 

At that point, your next 2 week reduction (days 38-52) of 0.014 mg would be a 10% cut from 0.144, so somewhere around this point you would want to slow down, possibly by reducing by smaller amounts, or by trading off days (cut-hold-cut-hold or cut-cut-hold-cut-cut-hold).

 

One other way you could do it (instead of what I typed out for you above) is by reducing your morning dose each day for 10 days, then your afternoon dose daily for 10 days, then your bed dose daily for 10 days, etc. This would be beneficial in 2 different ways. 1. You wouldn't have to dose out of two different solutions three times per day, so it is simpler and saves time. 2. You would use less of your "taper solution", which, since it is not a solution but a suspension, isn't 100% uniform and is more likely than your strong solution to give you fluctuating dosages. The only down side would be your doses not being exactly the same, though they wouldn't be that different, so it seems unlikely to cause problems, especially if you do your bed dose third, as shown above.

 

Let me know if all of this makes sense.