Alot of us get so dependent on benzos we do take that much.I was prescribed 100 mgs of Valium once daily to help me get off alprazolam...which I was dosing twice a day in 12 mg increments.
How much alprazolam did you get up to? For me it was easy to substitute 4mg (2mg bid) of clonazepam to 55mg of valium for a week, 50 the next etc. until I reached a level where going lower too fast by 5mg increments wasn't doing it anymore. So me and my psy doc have a sort of entente, as I proved that when I want to get off a certain too high dose (I was on 3.5mg before i got to 4mg, reasons for increasing was because, was that even if i was dispensed the clonazepam weekly, at my request, so I could not get in a massive withdrawal lasting days on end, but I didn't have enough for 7 days, I had enough for 6 at 3.5, and also the pharmacy were idiots giving me 1mg tiny minty pinkies and not slice the required amount of pills I had to take .5 of and wouldn't give me some 1mg and some .5mg so I could take my dose as indicated, they used a pill cutter for my script maybe for a month then didn't bother....try splitting a 1mg clonazepam pill, the tiny pink ones, they don't have a score and are so small its impossible to chew half of it, the whole thing will crumble in your front teeth area and wouldn't give me .5's only instead so...yeah I would oftend end up in withdrawal for a but more than 24 hours from 4mg of clonazepam and just that was enough to give me oesophageal spasms and massive acid reflux and a feeling like I could feel my nerve endings that were put to sleep or slow acting.
When I decide to get off the small, at least, subjectively dose of 10mg valium bid (10mg twice a day), its going to be 1mg at a time, maybe spread over 3 weeks or even months, ive been using it for so long everyday, there's no way out other than using ashton protocol, which thankfully, he is aware of, he just tried what I offered at first, I thought I could manage a 5mg reduction of valium every week in my daily dosages, but nah, at 15mg...i'm "okay", 20mg I'm totally normal, was pretty hilarious see my gf try one of my 10mg valium with me with a glass of wine. She said that was the most euphoric feeling she ever had....Man do I miss when I could have said such. She's about to get a bromazepam 6mg script for sleep, her doc has her on Desyrel (trazodone) and if she doesn't like it, she'll go back and get the bromazepam script 6mg at bed time, yay more benz in da house.
But really, withdrawing from xanax and you're using 100mg valium a day as you say, clonazepam is equipotent as xanax so, what kind of nutty dose were you on?