Hi, I'm Mcat

Hi @Mcat, welcome! Yes, unfortunately the final stretch can be the toughest. I'm glad you're slowing down and proceeding more cautiously. The greatest changes in serotonin receptor occupancy happen at these very low doses. Keep us updated on how things progress with your taper! Catina 💜

Thanks, Catina. I'm tossing up whether I should go back up to my previous dose because this is the worst and most protracted WD I've had since the start, when I jumped to 7.5mg after trialling 15mg for a week - since then, I've mostly done a 10% a month taper, with the exception of a few times I did the next drop 3 instead of 4 weeks later and a period where I went slower and dropped every 6 weeks. It will be 6 weeks since my last drop on Tues, and while the WD have definitely settled quite a bit, I'm still not back to 8 hours sleep (getting around 7 solid hours, though) and can still feel the effects of what I think was going too fast without realising it for the last few months (around April or so, I think I needed to listen to my body more instead of sticking to my plan of drops, and I didn't, and now I'm paying for it). But I'm reluctant to go back up if I don't really, really need to, so I might give it a couple more weeks. Just a bit nervous about whether I've triggered protracted discontinuation sydrome.

"I'm reluctant to go back up if I don't really, really need to, so I might give it a couple more weeks" — @Mcat

That sounds reasonable. Sometimes a nice long hold is in order. I knew people at Surviving Antidepressants who held for multiple months, and it was just what they needed.