The How-to guide
Firstly..
make sure you've read the Caution page.
Tapering - or "withdrawing" (or even "discontinuation") - is not easy, and if not done carefully even damaging or life-threatening.
Have you read the caution? Do you have a support network?
Have you connected with Surviving Antidepressants or the Inner Compass Initiative's Withdrawal Project?
Ok. let's proceed..
Technical Instructions
Technical, meaning "in theory" ie. NOT taking into account how you will actually find yourself using the calculator, which will be in a more organic fashion.
Starting with a dose of 10mg, and ending on a dose of 1mg - a somewhat unlikely scenario - you will be presented with some numbers.
For any given number, there's a list number to the left. The numbers progress in sequence down the list.
- 10
- 9
- 8.1
- 7.29
- 6.561
- 5.9049
- 5.3144
- 4.783
- 4.3047
- 3.8742
- 3.4868
- 3.1381
- 2.8243
- 2.5419
- 2.2877
- 2.0589
- 1.853
- 1.6677
- 1.5009
- 1.3509
- 1.2158
- 1.0942
Next, copy all the values, and paste them into a spreadsheet or a calendar.
This section will be expanded on shortly, hopefully with some new functionality for the calculator.