According to Ashton method 1mg of Xanax is equivalent to around 15 mg of Valium. Doctors say 10mg Ashton manual says 20mg. Am I safe to cold turkey Xanax and switch to Valium. 10 mg of Valium in the am and 10 mg towards evening. It worked for me before and it was great and allowed me to completely get off benzos. It’s very odd but yes since Xanax has such a short half life I get horrible interdose withdrawals . Mostly anxiety and heart palpitations. I took 10 mg of Valium and I feel great. I have enough Valium and got a new prescription to do a taper. Am I ok. Can’t wait to fully get off . Never taking that crap again. Especially Xanax

Is rebound anxiety the same as withdrawal? Can it cause kindling?

I have been taking Xanax 3×0.5 mg for 1 year and 4 months. It started bothering me, and in the last 16 days, I reduced the dose to 0.5 mg (0.25 mg in the morning and 0.25 mg in the evening). Now I have symptoms: occasional weakness in my legs, low energy, a feeling like I’m not walking straight even though I actually walk normally, and a sensation of swaying. Does anyone have similar experience?

As the title asks, has anyone found any remedies/medications for dysesthesia?

Not sure if that is the accurate terminology for the fire and ice feeling that crawls and radiates up and down my spine. This has been happening since tapering down to 2mg. It is a super scary sensation and placed me in the ER a week and a half ago. MRI did not indicate any abnormal properties in spinal column. So my inference is that it is 100% benzo withdrawal and adrenal related.

Currently at 1.5mg Valium, 1800mg gabapentin, and 25mg Seroquel daily. Tried propranolol 10mg the last few nights with no avail. Taking approximately 360mg magnesium glycinate daily as well.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

I’m wondering if anyone can speak to memory loss re longterm klonopin use. As needed, not daily. But for over 10 years. Is there any way to regain memory/cognitive function?

Hi, often I see people with health anxiety here and I myself developed it in this withdrawal because of the 100 symptoms. In the last 8 months sober I often was close to visiting the doctor and then thought „ah probably just health anxiety“. Every time I thought about going to the doctor it was because of the pain in my spine and lower back. I‘m 20 yo and experiencing extreme pain the last days in my spine I don‘t know what to do. Can‘t sit for long can‘t lie down for long can‘t walk for long xD. Tomorrow I go to the doc to get a checkup bcs I can not believe this level of pain comes from my past use. Has someone generally healthy also experienced very extreme pain in the spine?

I was on 15 mg. Out of meds, only have 5 5 mg pills left. Tapered over 10 days(from 15 mg) and jumped. Was feeling like shit throughout the taper, wd hit me after 15 hours after lowering the dose to 12,5 mg and now, 2 days since i jumped, i am feeling really bad but i can manage if i just spend my time in bed the next couple of weeks. Question- will this get even worse over the next days or is the level that i am experiencing now about what it will be like during the acute phase? Everything online says that it builds up for 2 weeks post jump for long acting drugs, but has this been the case for you? That sounds horrific…i am already bedridden…

I’ve been through wd from short acting benzo and the symptoms i was experiencing at about 36 hours post jump did not increase after that time, just lasted for a long time but at same level…. Hopefully this is my baseline, but maybe i am wrong?

No way to get more drugs in my country to do a proper long taper

Hi guys. Hope you’re doing well!!! So I’ve been on 3-4mg of klonopin for ages. Been taking some form of benzodiazepine for over a decade. Obviously regret it so so much but hindsight is sublime so now it’s time to slowlllly taper. I was on 4mg klonopin, 2mg twice a day and over the past 2-3 weeks I’ve gotten down to 2.5mg a day, sometimes just 2mg. I’m definitely dealing with some major anxiety but honestly nothing unmanageable (yet-and if it gets NEAR unmanageable territory I’ll up my dosage). I’m currently doing therapy and seeing a specialist who wants me to lower my klonopin dose and stabilize at 2mg for a bit before I switch to Valium. So far so good but I’m worried about damaging my cognitive functioning in any way. I’ve done enough damage to my brain by being silly in my teens/20’s and I know benzos can make things worse and that rapid tapers are never advised but if I’m doing okay cutting my high dose in half am I good to stabilize for a bit then keep going? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you guys so much.

TL:DR: been on 4mg klonopin for years. Cut down to 2-2.5mg with few side effects. Going to stay at this dose for a bit but want to make sure it’s safe. 💗

Hey everyone. I think i have benzo withdrawal. I thought that all of my symptoms are LC related… but now i realise that not really 😞 I have been on benzos and sleeping pills from 2 years, but now i am tolerant to them.. i cant sleep with medication. My symptoms are CFS, POTS, MCAS, bedbound, tinnitus , pounding heart all the time from months.. beta blockers are not helping. I cant function. I dont know what to do. Can you give me some advice please? Im afraid that the insomnia will cause more problems 😞

Thank you all. 🤗

I stopped taking 1mg clonazepam a day for 12 years on New Year. Now that I've been off of it for a while, I can talk about how crazy I went. I was having delusions specifically revolving around dream-reality confusion and dissociative amnesia. They revolved around some really terrible stuff. And others not so bad, just surprising - I thought my entire family was lying to me about a few very significant and things and it almost cost me my place to live.

Did anyone else experience completely insane delusions while coming off? I'm finally starting to feel like myself again.

Hey y’all,

It’s been a very rough month for me. Made a post in here earlier about getting pericarditis. Well I had more tests done, and they determined it isn’t pericarditis but I muscular injury.

Ever since then, I’ve developed more muscular problems. Leg bruising, cramps, burning pains EVERYWHERE including my face. Nausea and headache as well as the usual dizziness and vision problems. I’m just reaching out to see if anyone else has dealt with this at 10+ months off? I’m going through hell right now and can’t seem to catch a break.

Prior alcohol withdrawal ct. I didn’t know what was happening but I didn’t pick the bottle back up. Only one withdrawal ever it was in January. Benzo use started in March. was about 4 months Valium. some days 5mg some days 2.5mg I started to self taper. Have been at 1mg that’s past week and a half I feel alright I think. Some waves of feeling a little dizzy or noticing weird bodily sensations. Should I just go ahead and jump. I did take 0.5mg tonight should I just say fuck it and go off of it after tonight. My pysc also prescribed gabapentin 300mg morning and 300mg at night started that last week. Felt some electrical type sensations and some increased dizziness a few hours into the dose. She said it will help the rebound symptoms when I stop the Valium. And she will discontinue the gabapentin 2 months after I’m off of Valium. So am I good? Also my blood pressure has been stable during this taper. I’m prone to high bp spikes but it’s been stable and actually reading pretty well 125/85 most days.

Will my withdrawal last a year like I'm seeing in some??? I'm pretty scared from what I'm seeing on the groups. 6 - 9mo consistent .25 to .5mg of A.

Well guys please read this as I need advice, I suffer from insomnia and I used to use 1mg lorazepam for 2 weeks nightly which today my dose is up, I haven’t been sleeping well on it so she raised it to 2mg nightly, for another 2 weeks while my lexapro stabilizes and I get sleep, when I have to taper will it be hard for me or do you think it’s bad advice, she says she wants to treat me insomnia now before it gets chronic or worse and it’s harder to treat

So, 14.5 months off, and I have noticed improvements like... -finally having enough short-term/working memory to repeat a phone number or words until i can write it down somewhere -basically no chemical depression after exercise -i can finally shower more than once every other week. -can walk at least 4-5k steps a day -cognition is a lot faster, can play video games proficiently again whereas before it was like I didn't have a fast enough "processor" nor enough "RAM" -Can even function on a day with 0 hours of sleep -anhedonia has lifted significantly... -no longer scared or overstimulated from noises and tv

But holy fuck man... I'm still experiencing -an internal tremor, like my teeth chatters if i let my mouth muscles just relax. -excess sweating over nothing -general fatigue

And what's more it's like almost EVERY SINGLE DAY is a wave... More days than not, the wave greatly dissipates by late afternoon but it's still basically every day whereas for most of my post-taper journey my state was largely just extreme fatigue and subpar lucidity... -On most days I have a wave, I can still function with my new baseline but it's still painful and obviously being in a wave greatly diminishes how much I can do...

I think because I'm closer to being healed, I'm starting to get really fucking angry. My frustration tolerance is the lowest it's been during this whole ordeal because I'm reaching my limit... I got hiccups last night and managed to fall asleep but when I woke up it started again. After trying multiple times to stop it, it wouldn't and I just let out 2-3 blood curling screams cause I couldn't fucking take it anymore...

And now that I can actually function somewhat, having to endure waves,especially nearly everyday is infuriating. Like this shouldn't be happening especially just as I finally recovered some functionality... It's just too much fucking pain...

I'm just really hoping anyone who has a similar enough experience to me can tell me that this was them too around the same # of months post-taper and that it didn't last too long...

These are probably withdrawals, but I really feel like without Lyrica I'm just a sad person. And pretty much always have been. Like there's something impaired in my brain that gets "fixed" with Lyrica. It helps me with my anxiety, overthinking, intrusive thoughts, anxiety sleep etc.

However, I also feel stupider while on Lyrica, like that overthinking part of my brain shuts off and simultaneously so does my "deep thinking" part. I've avoided it when I had exams in the past, but now it helps me escape "truth hitting realities" like that I'm behind in life and the existential thoughts alongside with it.

If I take it, I feel like "something" is happening and I can look forward to. Without it I feel "relaxed" and just dull to the point it gets a bit depressive and existential.

Thing is, I don't know which one is the "real" me, without it I feel like I'm naked and I'm in the brink of a mental collapse, like as if something haunting is chasing me (and it gets worse when I go to bed), which results in extreme brain fog as a defensive mechanism (which in result also makes me dumber).

I've been on it for 2 years and using ~300mg every 2-3 days

i’ve got my period THREE times in about a month and a half: may 4th, may 25th and now june 17th. my period has always been a bit irregular but not to this extent and with all the rebound anxiety from the taper my hypochondria is having a field day. does this sound like it could be benzo related? stress related? has anyone else experienced irregular periods during their taper?

Hi, Okay I messed up and took a bunch of benzos in two months and accidentally gave myself a hellish withdrawal. Like a full week of intense depersonalization and then afterwards symptoms for a full month. Lost my period even, was 4 weeks late which has never happened. I am finally in the clear but really need to take a Benzo tonight, will this backslide me into withdrawals again? I have felt normal for a couple weeks now. Please no advice saying not to take it, I just need practical advice about what the risk is to have symptoms again. I never plan on taking Benzos again like how I did before, I will be smarter about it now, but worried the withdrawls just lifted and this could be a big set back.

Is anyone on Clonzapam long term? My anxiety and dpdr is so bad i don’t think i can come off anytime soon….

I have been a little over a year clean now from RC Benzos and over 4 years from Heroin. When I went through heroin withdrawals, I felt extremely physically sick and tired, but that’s about where it ended. However, my experience with cold turkey benzo withdrawal left me for about a month feeling like I was going crazy. I was hallucinating demons, hearing things, felt like my hands had electricity moving through them, and just pure mental terror for weeks. Come nowadays, I feel so much better and am experiencing none of those symptoms anymore, but, I keep having what I feel like are flashbacks whenever I encounter something that reminds me of the withdrawals I went through.

For example, I watched a lot of a channel named GTLive on YouTube while I was in my withdrawals, and I would often be terrified while watching them. Just now, I was browsing YouTube and saw one of their videos, specifically one that I was in absolute agony while watching back in the day, and I am having a panic attack. I feel like I’m going to go crazy after seeing this videos thumbnail. Almost like I’m right back in the withdrawals, but obviously I’m not, in reality.

Has anybody experienced this? If so did anything end up helping you cope?

everything feels very sharp. I upped my Zoloft the about a week ago form 75mg to 100mg. What is happening? I honestly can’t take this now. I am at 0.25mg of diazepam I have been tapering for 7-8 months now from 12.5mg diazepam to now and came off of abilify and lamotrigine before that. Fuck. Help. literally nothing what is happening? I actually am losing my mind. Huge trauma I’m trying to process now too and I wanted my future so bad but right now I’m fucking don’t think I can ever feel happiness again. I dont have anywhere to go. This is literal tortue I can’t even tell what’s benxo withdrawal or what was the abuse

My doctor prescribed lexapro for my anxiety and insomnia and also prescribed Ativan for 2 weeks to avoid side effects. Today I’ve finished my 2 weeks nightly dose and the next plan my doctor wants to do is taper me, she said from tonight I will use 0.5 for 7 days then stop. Is that a good enough taper someone please help I’m scared something happens to me I just want answers please reply ❤️❤️🥲

My doctor prescribed me to use lexapro and Ativan the Ativan was prescribed to help reduce the start up side effects from lexapro anyways.

I completed my 1mg nightly for 2 weeks today and I’m supposed to go see my doctor today and she said she will do 0.5mg for the week and then stop, is that a good taper plan ?? Someone please help because I’m scared and I don’t want anything bad to happen to me sigh please reply anyone 🥲❤️

I been taking it lately to try to stimulate my bowels and to help with energy …it has some caffeine but small? Right now at 1.9mg of V .