jamesBrown
Bluelighter
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i'm going to disagree with most of the other posters and tell you to rely on the advice of your doctor.
yes, you are taking very high doses of benzos every day, and if you stop immediately, you are at much greater risk of seizures or even death. however, because your doctor knows what you take daily and for how long you have been taking it, he's not just going to cut you off and laugh while you shake on the ground.
i've met people with severe anxiety issues (e.g. bad agorophobia, where they wouldn't leave the house at all for months) that were legitimately prescribed like 12 mgs of xanax a day long-term. i wouldn't advise someone who gets mild panic attacks sometimes to take that amount every day or anything, but apparently it allowed this person to lead a much more normal life (in tandem w/ counseling, etc) where other treatments had failed. then again, i wouldn't advise anyone to take anything because i'm not a doctor. so there you go, take what you read here with a grain of salt and take your doctor's advice over ours. if you really question his ability, ask another doctor.
I wasnt telling him to not have faith in his doctor....i was, like you, teling him to not have blind faith in his doctor.....meaning, if his doctor tells him to do someting, or take this medication at these doses...than its a good idea to researh it on you own as well in oreder to understand it even more making sure he knows what hes doing.....not all doctors know what they are doing, bu not all doctors are idiots. And its also true you must be completely honest with your doc as to what benzos you are taking so he can properly help you.
But I think we can all agree that this person(the OP) has gotten himself into a potentially very dangerous situation and believe it or not people...it is possible for him to be cut off from his daily benzo dosage at any time...there are a hundred scenarios I could think of explaining this, and allthough they are unlikely, they are still possible, and your life is worht more than to risk it on soething lie that. You never know, for example, your doc could find out that youve been taking extra benzos on the side and he would interpret that as you abusing your medication and consequently cut you off from all of your rescriptions immediately....and this obviously puts you in a deadly circumstance for obvoious reasons.