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Benzos Benzo withdrawal ................. COMPLETE

SuperPump250

SuperPump250

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FINALLY !!!!!!!!! It does end and you actually do get back to normal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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How many xanax were you taking? I have been on and off zanies for years, right now im back on. I take about 3 bars a day on average and i can stop and not withdraw...but everyone tells me its the worst withdrawal ever. I guess im not taking a lot? Never want to go through a benzo w/d, opiate w/d is bad enough for me
 
I was on Klonopin, and I actually did not take it daily, but with the long half life of the drug my brain adjusted well enough to go through 1.5 years of withdrawal. So miserable, I thought it would never end, marijuana helped tremendously. My suggestion to everybody is to get off the drug if you really don't need it, life is so much more beautiful not on that BS. Withdrawal was hell, but you DO get better one day. I would NEVER go back, or consider taking a benzo again. For those withdrawing, HANG IN THERE, it is worth it in the end, DO NOT RELAPSE.
 
Ive been in benzodiazepine PAWS for a year -______-

Im hoping that the schizophrenia goes away with PAWS but no one seems to think it will.

Congratulations, did it end for you today?
 
It's pretty much been over for a couple weeks, but you don't want to speak too soon. Some days in withdrawal you almost feel perfectly normal where you may think you are done, only to have it come back strong shortly after. Even towards the end you have a few slight lingering motions or feelings in your brain while feeling just about fine, but regardless you can tell when you are truly back to your original self.

For over a year my brain was working on the one single area where my brain zaps would occur, the right side of my brain/head right by the temple. Then once that area cleared up, my brain spent some time creating feelings and light shocks on all parts of my brain, and after about 1.5 months of that I was normal.
 
I took Klonopin for about 1.5 years, and I did not take it every single day during that stretch, but more about 50% of the total days during the 1.5 year period. I would usually take 1.5mg before bed, but there were many uses of just .5mg, and then some uses in the 2-3mg range.

Then after withdrawing for a few months (my symptoms were not very severe yet here, perhaps because it wasn't taken daily), for some stupid reason I decided to relapse. During this phase of 8 days, I went through almost my entire 90 pill bottle of .5mg, consuming a massive amount of Klonopin in a short period of time. Then, after this 8 day period I was fuct, that is when the brain zaps started and maintained for over a year.

I knew about the devastating withdrawal symptoms from benzo withdrawal, so going into it my goal was to not get addicted. But it was taken too frequently, but really the relapse episode of the heavy use in the 8 day stretch is what did most of the damage.
 
Congrats Superpump!

This is great news for you and for anyone who is wondering if they'll ever recover from this most shocking of dependencies.

Enjoy your hard earned normality, which you will never again take for granted!
 
Well done Superpump, always gives other people hope when they can read that others have succeeded.
 
Hope I get there….

I am about one year off, not quite normal yet, but fairly close I guess.
 
this thread gives me hope for my own PAWS, I've been off daily dosing for over a year. Still using them therapeutically but much less than as-prescribed. Usually in one week I will take a total of 1-1.5 x 2mg alprazolam and 1-2x30mg temazepam and sometimes 1x0.25mg triazolam

Better than taking XXXmg of Xanax every single day, but ten years of that addiction left me a shell of who I once was, so I've been filling in that shell and hope one day to be completely back to my former health! :)
 
Thanks guys! And man once it's done, you really do appreciate life a little bit more. Just feeling normal again is like being on drugs in a way, so much energy and happiness after 1.5 years of misery, such a new wonderful feeling. Although benzo withdrawal is miserable, I did learn a lot during the process, and you try to make a positive overall out of a negative once it's over.

To make the withdrawal symptoms easier, I learned to take extremely good care of myself in terms of my eating, exercise, etc, and now I will always have these learned ways that I likely would not have experienced otherwise. Diet soda products made me my brain go crazy during withdrawals, and I had to quit them all together, now being back to normal I feel even better than before because aspartame is no longer part of my diet. Just an example, there are others. Oddly enough too I did battle mild anxiety in my life even before taking Klonopin, but I am now anxiety free and I believe healthy ways of life (learned through benzo withdrawal), are largely responsible for that. Good luck people, again benzo withdrawal seems like it NEVER ends, but it does!
 
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