scared60 (thank you) made the original post, and this is a follow-up.
Here's a note from Altostrata who posts on the Surviving Antidepressants forum. Altostrata illustrates a weaning regimen that reduces the dosage by 10% per every 3-4 weeks based on your last dosage. This regimen yields a reduction that slows down near the end, which is what's necessary. Using this method (10% reduction of your last dosage every 3 weeks) you arrive down at 50% of the original dosage in about 22 weeks. At this point you may be able to increase the rate to 10% per week depending on how the symptoms go. (Listening to your body is a living part of this system).
This is the Baby-Steps method (you stay at each level and ensure you're stable before reducing the next dosage).
The brand name by Eli Lilly is probably the best bet for slow-reducing because their dope has more beads in it. I think it would be nice to find a pharmaceutical company that would be willing to produce a Duloxetine Withdrawal Kit where the dosages come tailored and packaged in the order in which they are to be taken. You buy the kit and you're done when all the capsules are done- maybe 16 months or so.
Altostrata lists several well-known professional resources that endorse this system. Check it out.
There is also a note on why the dosage reduction needs to be slowed down near the end.
http://survivinganti...0-of-my-dosage/
