For patients
Take the next step with confidence
Find your calculator, work out the measurable amount, take your dose. When you're ready for the full schedule — try the TaperMate app.
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TaperMate calculators Work out the exact dose, before you take it.
Free, transparent calculators for patients reducing antidepressants, benzodiazepines and other psychotropic medications — built with your clinician in mind. Every formula is on screen so you can verify the answer by hand.
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Medicine-specific calculators
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Reduction methods covered
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TGA Excluded Good by design
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Australian English & clinical sources
How the calculators work
A taper plan is a conversation between you and your clinician. The calculator turns the agreed dose into the measurable amount you'll actually take.
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Agree the next dose with your prescriber
The calculator doesn't recommend a method or a schedule. Those decisions stay with your healthcare team.
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Open the calculator for your medicine
Each medicine has its own page with the right inputs, method-specific instructions, and a deep-linkable URL.
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Enter your numbers, take the measurable amount
The formula is shown on every result, with a "validate this calculation" panel so you can sanity-check at a glance.
What a calculator looks like
A live snapshot of the sertraline · liquid calculator. Every input and the formula are on the same screen, so you can always see exactly how the result was worked out.
Sertraline · liquid
Single dose calculator
mg
Strength of the tablet you're using. mL
How much water you dissolve or disperse the tablet in. mg
What you want to take today. mL
Calculated for you. Take this much of the liquid
2.5mL
from the 10 mL you mixed, to get a
12.5 mg dose.
Formula volume to take = (target dose ÷ tablet strength) × water volume
With your numbers
(12.5 mg ÷ 50 mg)
× 10 mL =
2.5 mL
Measure to the nearest 0.1 mL on your syringe.
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Formula on every result. Every conversion is shown, step by step.
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All inputs editable. Change one number and watch the rest recalculate.
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Try the sertraline · liquid calculator Shareable links. Send your prescriber the exact calculation you used.
For clinicians
A tool you can share with patients
Transparent maths. No administration. Australian regulatory context. Deep-link the page with the strength pre-filled.
For clinicians →Need a plan?
Book a telehealth consult
The TaperMate Clinic offers Australia-wide telehealth appointments with pharmacists who specialise in deprescribing.
Book a consult →Built on clinical sources
Our calculators and instructions are adapted from peer-reviewed deprescribing literature.
Next step
Plan your full taper in TaperMate
This calculator handles one dose. The TaperMate app calculates a full reduction schedule with hold periods, microtapering and symptom monitoring — so each new dose is one tap away, not a daily maths problem.