Hi, I'm Jamie

Hi Jamie, the research these days suggests it's best to taper one drug at a time, as the brain has plenty to adapt to with one drug taper rather than anymore. Also if you are tapering 2 at once and withdrawal begins, it's hard to tell which drug is causing it. Are you familiar with hyperbolic tapering? I'm now tapering seroquel/quetiapine (same drug) after 13 years on it. You seem to have been doing a linear taper on that, and at 200mg you should be ok for a while, because your neuronal synapses will still be saturated. There is a tipping point coming, for me it was 75mg but differs for everyone, and a linear taper will result in increasingly difficult withdrawals at that point. When I did it, I got down to 55mg and had to stop it got so bad. With hyperbolic tapering you reduce every 4 weeks to start with, with dose reductions of between 5-10% of the current dose. Depending on how you go, after a while, if you want, you can adjust it. It will seem a bit slow but it's proving great for me, at any rate, with next to no w/d symptoms so far. Look in the Resources section on this site, and it has all you want to know about it. I understand that it can be done on all psychiatric drugs so no doubt good for a Nardil taper. Have a look anyway. All the best, R. ps. for my Q taper I now use a combination of commercial pills and a compounded liquid to make up the dose, it keeps the cost down.