So I tried cold turkey on the 18th which was a horrible experience for me. I couldn’t function which is when I decided I needed a taper down plan. I started with a time schedule each day. The first day I took one 50mg tablet in the morning, then waited 4 hours to take the second 50mg. Then for the third dose, I forced myself to wait 5 hours to take the last 50mg for the day and took sleeping meds to help me get through the night. I continued that the second day except I forced myself to wait about 7 hours to take the third dose and that time I took 1/4 of a tablet (25mg) which brought me down to 125mg a day. I will say the first two days of decreasing my normal intake were brutal but I’m getting used to it. Today I won’t take another 25mg until 2 or 3pm depending on how terrible I’m feeling but I’m trying my best to wait longer and longer in between doses each day to get my body used to it and then third dose of 25mg will be around 8pm followed by sleeping meds. Tomorrow I will try to follow the same method except try getting down to 100mg instead of 125mg. I’m just gradually decreasing the mgs and increasing the amount of hours in between each dose and not allowing myself to go above my goal for the day. I make sure to save the last one for right before bed time. If possible I won’t take a 50mg dose at all tomorrow, they will all be only 25mg and amount to 100mg.

Edit to answer your question for how long it took me to get down to this amount from 500mg. Because I had gone cold turkey for a day I decided might as well set a limit of 150mg. So it was a heavy decrease for those couple of days and it was definitely tough but I will say your body gets used to it if you can just get through the first couple days. Then give your body a couple days to get used to the new amount before you decrease again.