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Benzos Accelerated Clonazepam Taper-Substitute for Clonazepam?

HAve you considered Checking out a benzo withdrawal clinic? Basically they become an intermediary for you and your dr when it comes to tapering and choosing the right drug. I am on Clonozapam also, 3 mg a day and my dr would not move me to diazapam. After I went to the clinic and showed them I was trying to make a real effort in therapy and so he now prescribes diazapam. Just a thought sorry if this has been mentioned.
 
No it has not been mentioned. Thank you for the addition to the thread. I cannot afford, nor do I have the time to go to a clinic as I have school as well as physical therapy nearly everyday for chronic pain... My psychiatrist is normally very agreeable so k believe there is a good chance I can get switched over very soon. I just need to make it explicitly clear that I need to be taken of the clonazepam for good.

Is diazepam the consensus drug that is optimal for tapering?
 
entheo said:
Is diazepam the consensus drug that is optimal for tapering?
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Yes.
But Oxazepam is working for me, I'm not tapering, but am on a really small dose of it(15mg 3x a day) and used to eat Xanax like candy.
I don't take Xanax anymore, and since starting the Oxazepam I haven't experienced any major w/d from the Xanax (eg the brain zaps stopped when I started taking the OX).
I'm just saying that Diazepam is the best suited drug for tapering off benzos, but Oxazepam worked in my case with the transition from Xanax and at the doses I take, it kinda doesn't feel like I am "drugged up", if you know what I'm trying to say.
 
entheo said:
Why would the liquid preparation be better versus the tablet form?

I would feel much more comfortable at 3.5mg/day right now. What would the Diazepam equivelant of that be? What will be the subjective differences be between the two compounds if I am able to switch to diazepam?
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For me the liquid solution is easier to slower taper off, but you wouldn't really benefit from that till you're quite a ways down. (You can cut up 1mg into 100 parts with a 1mL oral syringe)
I'd say you really don't need Diazepam for a while, until you taper down to about 0.5mg Clonazepam.

3.5mg Clonazepam = 70mg Diazepam.

I'd say make bigger cuts with Clonazepam, then at 0.5mg switch over to 10mg Diazepam.
Just an idea...
 
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