Sorry for the hard lesson, Marion. I've often wondered what would happen if I just stopped taking it but I've been too chicken to try it. Now.....I won't.

I called Skip to see if lowering my dose to 3 mg from 4.5 would cause any problems and he said it shouldn't. But, if I noticed things changing for the worse I could just bump it back up to 4.5 mg.

I wonder if you'd have the same negative reaction if you tapered off instead of just stopping cold turkey? I'm not planning to stop anytime soon but Marion's experience made me wonder if slowly reducing the dose would cause problems.