How can I taper from 15mg to 7.5mg in 10-15% increments

Treatment and medication
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I currently take 15mg Mirtazapine and want to taper to 7.5mg monthly.

The problem is how can I split the pill, there is only a half mark, surely it wouldn’t be good to just nibbling a bit off as I would be getting a variable dosage?

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buy a pill cutter from any chemist

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Don they just cut in half, that’s 50%

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“Surely it wouldnt be good to just nibble a bit off as you would be getting a variable dosage”. That depends how desperately you want to get off it. Thats the way I did it, went from a 30mg tablet to nothing just by estimating how much id cut each previous day and keeping it the same for a bit and then take the plunge and cut it a tiny bit more. You end up with little bits of pill scattered around, it takes forever and is a pain in the ass but it worked. It took around four months. I used an Equidose cutter,it took a while to line up as the pill was unhelpfully an oblong shape and so was never a perfect cut, but again how much do you want to get off Mirt. There are letters/ numbers on the pill so I just remembered how close to one of them i was the day before and go from there. Good luck!