Help I Need To Get Off Xanax!!!!

[Jonny412]

Hey friend.[ REMOVED ] I think regular personal support is needed throughout this process and that may be hard to come by here. Xanax and Klonopin are the same, 2 mgs = 2 mgs. Doctors typically will give up Klonopin faster than Valium as Valium is known as a feel good drug of abuse. Water titration in the way to go IMO, tiny cuts each day that your brain hardly notices, eliminates the bumps in the road. If your doc will not source you Valium or Klonopin then keep looking until you find one that will. This is a very important matter to your future, health, functionality. Is even more important than work as I lost the ability to work. Could not have even if I had to, miracles kept me afloat. Do this the right way and you can avoid many problems. And I would avoid the detox centers, have heard far more horrors stories, including mine, than successes.

[Maxibear]

Please bring up depakote with your doctor. It is now commonly also being used to help with alchohol withdrawl as well as benzo withdrawl. There's no reason why you couldn't use it at home.

[benzogirl]

for the ashton taper at 2mg xanax, you would substutite .5mg xanax for 10mgval one week, then do this with the next 3 doses for four weeks. once you are crossed over to valium(40mg in your case, you would just go to stage 13 where it shows how much to drop for 40mgval-usually 5mgval per week for 3 weeks, then 2.5mgval for 2 weeks, etc. it is schedule 7 in the ashton manual. if he switches you over to the klonopin, tell him you want to stay on it that it works much better than the xanax. that way you will have the pills to supervise your own taper. [ REMOVED ] many people have come off of klonopin quite easily using the water titration method. you could try the depakote, but as stated above some people come off benzos in a few weeks with no problems; most people cannot endure this fast a taper, and you could set youself up for months or years of hell. [ REMOVED ] just like in aa, thousands of people can't be wrong about what works with not drinking; neither can thousands of people be wrong in their experiences with a fast taper, as compared to a slow taper. you are on your way, you're learning more about this whole deal. you'll be okay coming off of them, just take it slowly. please do not let your dr supervise your taper. he'll yank you off in 2-6 weeks, then deny any of your horrible problems are benzo-related.

[diabolik74]

thanks you guys, that has been very helpful. i will check out that site you mentioned later today. god im so nervous as to what will happen dr wise. i tried sheduling and appt with him asap and hes out of town and they have me seeing a practicioner. (geez) im sure she will be clueless and they like you to stick with the same doc so im sure it will be a wasted trip and she will just tell me to make another appt with the idiot doc. ive been sticking to my normal dose of xanax until i can get with a good doc or my same doc if hes willing to do it my way and not his. so this is kinda bothersome. ive been experiencing extreme muscle spasms in my legs in the middle of the night nightly. i think its called spasms, its like a charley horse but its like every tiny muscle possible is included and my leg is in extreme pain and gets frozen and i cant move it and it is all contorted. i have to jump out of bed and it takes a long time of moving my leg in different positions to get it to stop. its extremely painful and it happens throughout the night. does this happen in xanax withdrawal? if so, i just dont understand why the extreme of mine since im still taking my reg. dosages. and ive also been getting horrible headaches, all day long every day and nothing will relieve them, not aspirin, ibroprin, tylenol or even imitrex which i have just in case i get migranes. anyone know if those headaches could be another symptom of the withdrawal? i just dont understand all the sudden problems when i havent changed my dose and havent had these probs before. i did have the muscle thing before while on xanax but not as often. or are these simply problems that occur with longtime xanax use? i thought i had a sinus infection for the headaches and was put on a very strong antibiotic for it but that didnt help. im hoping it is just a sinus thing and those particular antibiotics didnt help and i just need to get a different kind. ive never been someone who has headaches. once in a blue moon and aspirin or something similar would knock it right out. im gonna go do some of my own research on these symptoms and also check out the yahoo thing. thanks you guys have been so great. i cant wait to start the process and cant wait for the day to arrive when i will no longer be dependent on this xanax! good luck to all of you who are going through the same thing!

[diabolik74]

[ REMOVED ] also i found it extremely alarming that it is harder to come off benzos then heroin and that benzos are more addictive than heroin. [ REMOVED ]