Tapering off

I feel like I gave it a good run and now I’m tapering off. I was on 25 mg for 3 months then I’ve been taking 50 mg for about 4 months but my depression + anxiety wasn’t responding we tried going up to 75 but my body reacted badly. We tried adding another medication and it made the depression worse. So I requested to taper off and just not medicate. My doc disagrees with my decision to stop medicating. He said to finish the 50 mg then go down to 25mg for 7 days then take 7 more doses skipping days between til I’m out. I requested stepping down to 10 before being off but my request was denied.

After reading other posts about people having a bad experience skipping days I just stopped. I am 3 days no Amitriptyline it’s been rough but I’m surviving. I’m just wondering how long I should expect this roughness to last. Any advice?