Author: hatmaker510
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:24 pm
Hey bander –
Yes, the best idea is to dose only once per day (unless dosing for pain). With sub’s long half life there’s simply no need for anything more than once daily dosing. We need to break those old habits of thinking we need to take a pill whenever we "feel" the need for something or when we "feel" something goes wrong, etc etc. Once we can get to dosing only once per day, then you can just take your morning sub and just forget about it until the next morning.
At the high dose you are on, you should be able to very easily get down to 16 mg or even down to 12 or 8 if you wanted to. You could first try dropping to 16 mg for a few days, then to 12 for another few days and so on. Those doses are quite comfortably above the ceiling so you shouldn’t even feel those drops. Most people don’t feel it until they get down to around 4 mg or so. But still, do drop a bit slowly every few days anyway.
Since you want to cut out your second dose in the PM AND decrease your dose, why not just decrease your PM dose and leave your AM dose alone? Then eventually you can cut out the PM dose altogether.
I hope this helps. Don’t push yourself to make all these changes too fast. You’re doing fine and you have a really good plan. Execute it at a slow but steady rate and I predict you will be just fine. And like most people, you will probably feel even better at a lower dose. Keep us posted. 
