Taper to 7.3 mg or 0.93g

I started my next taper, this is actually day 2 of my taper. I have been sick for the last week and was not sure if I was going to proceed with the taper or wait till I felt better.

I have to tell you, I really wish I didn't have to go through these tapers, I wish it was over already. If you are trying to decide on if to take Lexapro or any other antidepressant, please try anything other them drugs ... please look into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or any therapy that will address depression and or anxiety. Sure it will not be a quick fix, sure you will have to be patient and work at it, but you cannot imagine the suffering these pills cause us. The physical pain, the horrible creepy feelings and the fear. If only I looked for another way, if only ...

Well I am on Day 2 and I am thinking the withdrawals will start tomorrow.
I have my exercise to help. I am still taking my supplements

Fish Oil 1000 mg 3x Day
B Complex 2x a day (on bottle)
Magnesium (Malate in my case) 400mg 2x a day.
Calcium Citrate 500mg 2x a day
Multivitamin

I didn't join any fancy website/program for getting off antidepressants. I do not special order any of these supplements, in fact I get most of them from Puritan Pride My multivitamin if a generic Kirkland brand from Costco.

I am not saying that those programs do not work, and maybe they help more, I don't know. I just don't have the extra cash to buy all they say you need, so I did research myself and bought as best as I could. I must be doing something right because I have made it to my 3rd 10 percent taper. The tapering I did before this was 50 percent. I was headed for another crash but luckily I ran into a thread on some drug website which lead me to the Paxil Progress forum and read and learned about the 10 percent taper process and was able to read other people's progress and comments. I count myself as very lucky.

With the 50 percent tapers this time I put 6 months in between them. And now with 10 percent I am putting 3 - 4 weeks in between them.

Also Today I purchased a program called The Panic Puzzle. I am not having any sort of attacks but there was a reason I started taking antidepressants (for me is was grief and the horrible effects of grief) and I bet something can still be there after the antidepressant. I will let you know what I think about the program.

Remember antidepressants do not cure anything! And even the drug companies will not claim that. All they do is drug the symtoms away till the day the drug stop working and you end up in horrible withdrawals and your original symptoms or worse! Then the doctor will put you on another pill with side effects until that drug stops and then again. I call it the Drug Merry - Go - Round and you end up nowhere better and even worse then what you started out.

TooDazed