television82
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So after probably over a year of diazepam use. Sometimes daily, sometimes only once a week. Sometimes 10mg, sometimes 50mg......with the most recent (last 6 weeks) usage being the worst, maybe 10-30 every or every other day, I decided to self taper.
I did this by going 10 every other day for a week, then 5 every other day for a week, then I have been taking 2.5 every other day for about 10 days now. I'd just gone 3 days without anything and felt fine. Considering I'd been taking such small amounts and skipping days, I guess I was pretty much back to base line/zero levels of the drug in my system.
However 4 days ago I went on a bit of a silly xanax binge. I've gone through 25mg in 5 days....
Will this have completely blown my taper out the water? Will I have to start the valium taper again?
Or considering xanaxs short half life, should I be able to tell in the next day whether its going to throw me into withdrawal?
I know if I had no history of benzo use, 25mg over 5 days and stopping cold turkey would be fine. But will the fact I recently tapered off a low-moderate valium habit alter this?
During the whole valium taper I felt fine. Never any withdrawal symptoms so to speak, except a little insomnia when i dropped to 2.5mg....
I did this by going 10 every other day for a week, then 5 every other day for a week, then I have been taking 2.5 every other day for about 10 days now. I'd just gone 3 days without anything and felt fine. Considering I'd been taking such small amounts and skipping days, I guess I was pretty much back to base line/zero levels of the drug in my system.
However 4 days ago I went on a bit of a silly xanax binge. I've gone through 25mg in 5 days....
Will this have completely blown my taper out the water? Will I have to start the valium taper again?
Or considering xanaxs short half life, should I be able to tell in the next day whether its going to throw me into withdrawal?
I know if I had no history of benzo use, 25mg over 5 days and stopping cold turkey would be fine. But will the fact I recently tapered off a low-moderate valium habit alter this?
During the whole valium taper I felt fine. Never any withdrawal symptoms so to speak, except a little insomnia when i dropped to 2.5mg....