Cut and hold Valium or micro taper QUESTION

I have a mortar and pestle and have been reducing my Valium the last week or so by crushing a few pills at a time and weighing out my dosage using a scale every day.

My question is, do I have to micro taper every single day with Valium being it has such a long half life, or could I just reduce by 5% every 2 weeks? I feel like micro tapering with Valium night not be as beneficial as just cutting by percentage and letting my body stabilize to that dosage.

When I reduce by .001 every day (weight, not milligrams) that scale can be off by .005 so it’s never going to be exactly accurate every single day. Reducing by the 5% I feel would be actually more accurate and give my body more time to stabilize at the new dosage. Or even just reduce 2.5% every week.

Thoughts on this please? Thank you!

A one-time cut of 5% will cause significantly greater discomfort than a series .5% cuts each day for 10 days.

 

Smaller cuts, more often, will always be a more tolerable.

I definitely agree with Builder.  I did not tolerate larger cuts well at all.  Once I started DLMT the horrible symptoms that I had with dry cutting faded and have pretty much gone away.  A much smoother ride down with DLMT.

Ok. I’ll stick with daily reductions. I’m on 4mgs. I want to taper 10% a month. How long (not taking into account days of holding) would it take to come off 2mgs. Is there a spreadsheet that I could do this on to see what each day my dose should be ?

A 2mg pill of mine on average weighs .169 - if I reduce by .001 it would take me 169 days to get off 2mgs. Does that seem like a good way to go about it?

Ok. I’ll stick with daily reductions. I’m on 4mgs. I want to taper 10% a month. How long (not taking into account days of holding) would it take to come off 2mgs. Is there a spreadsheet that I could do this on to see what each day my dose should be ?

A 2mg pill of mine on average weighs .169 - if I reduce by .001 it would take me 169 days to get off 2mgs. Does that seem like a good way to go about it?

 

Sounds like a plan

 

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