Tapering off at 10%, how does it work

Treatment and medication
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Hello, please could someone help me with the tapering off 10% method…

My doctor advised me to reduce my dose to come down from 100mg to 50mg in 3 weeks obviously I didn’t do that so took 1 x 50mg tablet per week and 6 x to 100mg for 4 weeks then on the 5th week I took 2 x 50mg tablets and kept 5 x 100mg weekly for another 4 weeks. This worked OK with withdrawal symptoms appearing and lasting for a few days then disappearing again. I got down to 5 x 50mg tablets and 2 x 100mg weekly but I then decided with the last 2 tablets to go down to 85mg instead of 50mg. I have now got withdrawal symptoms that are not going away and I am struggling with them. I am thinking I should go back up to 100mg on 2 days and keep the other days at 50mg, this was the last dose where I seem to stablise. Not ideal going up or down as seems to get withdrawal symptoms from both.
I don’t want to stick at 5 x 50mg tablets and 2 x 85mg (which I am on now) as I don’t feel great so after I go back up to 5 x 50mg tablets and 2 x 100mg, I wanted to go on the 10% method but do I need to drop 10% per day per tablet or 10% off 1 tablet per week?

I hope that makes sense, I am worried I have come down too quickly but it has taken me 6 months to go from 700mg weekly to 450mg weekly!

Thanks in advance…

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hi
im on a facebook group called sertraline should be illigal.
they do a tapering method, and they say weight 3 tablets, get total weight of them all. then divide between 3. thats the weight you start a 5% taper on. then do 5% drop every 3-4 weeks stabalize then do another 5%. i bought some jewellery scales now im on a small dose i crush and weight then put it in water to drink. its a slow proccess but hopefully worth it join the sight they are very helpful good luck