Thanks for the advice and to others. This might be a stupid question but what about Z drugs to help with sleep and stuff? I was never sure if they were benzos or if there were issues with cross tolerance or whatever.
I've used most GABA drugs, and literally nothing that I've used has helped with, or I've heard could help with, a benzo withdrawal. Not the seizures and intense stuff, anyway.
Sleep? A z drug might help, though when I took one during benzo withdrawal, I seemed to have a tolerance to it and couldn't sleep, just had to be awake through those bizarre dreamy trippy aspects instead.
If you can't sleep I'd reccomend a totally different set of receptors: melatonin if you can get it (biovea france, like a french holland and barrets, was always a go to for many in the uk) - and no it's not illegal/graymarket, so posting that is fine. It's just got a patent preventing sale from within our border.
Even Nytol at a push, but that's a bit grimey.
Gabapentin/pregabalin will work to mitigate some aspects of withdrawal, for sure, but when you start seizure twitching on no benzo day three, I'd expect it to trigger the grand mal, not prevent it.
On May 1st I rapidly came off 3 years more of benzo use and was taking 2mg clonazepam (equiv to about 2 x 10mg diazepam to me). I'd spent all my money and had 4 x 2mg clonaz pills left. I just split the dose in half, daily, to about 200 mics, weighing crushed up clonaz into tens towards the end (so 200 mics a dose).
My point being, I had very little to work with, just four tablets which could easily be eaten in a day, but I'd reached the end and had one choice; and I actually spread them pretty far. It wasn't as smooth as it can be, possibly dangerous, but I was fine and very glad to rapidly taper off. So it can be done, fast and surgical, if necessary.
Just keep a dose for the 72 hour point, in case you start twitching/getting brain zaps. They are truly your "angels" of death during benzo withdrawal. If you sort of stagger your remaining doses on day 2-3 like that, it can also help, and help reduce tolerance. Dangerous waiting until, again... dreaded day 3.