Quote Originally Posted by ta333 View Post
I wasn't aware of the rule of thumb for decreasing
The reason is because it takes about 5 half-lives for a med's plasma levels to stabilise to a new steady-state after a dose change, up or down.

Originally I had planned to go much slower, but was told by my psychiatrist, GP & pharmacist that I could go even faster,
They could be right, there's no way of predicting this, but the risk of failing increases the faster the wean off and, imo, doing it with minimum trauma is more important than speed.