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Benzos Going to have my first benzo withdrawl-How Badly?

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Opiate_Euphoria

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Over the last 2 1/2 - 3 weeks I have consumed 19.5mg clonazepam. Averaging around 1.5MG daily. I've also had about 3mg of alprazolam over the last 2 days. I'm worried about withdrawing, I haven't had a benzo free day in almost 3 weeks. I'm down to my last 3mg of alprazolam and im trying to taper the next three days at .5mg 2x daily.

What do you guys think?
 
I would say tapering is a good idea, running out and WDing from even 1mg will induce profound suffering IME. If you have only been on it 3 weeks...I honestly don't think it will be too horrible, but you will likely feel awful for 3 days or more, or perhaps not. Try getting down to 0.25mg if you can.
 
I was on 3 mg on klonopin a day plus additional 1-2 mg of xanax a day and and occasional valium here and there for about 3-4 years non stop. I got locked up and had to detox from heroin and a HUGE dose of benzos at the same time, I can tell you the detox from benzos made me go absolutely insane, I was hallucinating, hearing voices, wondering around like a crazy lunatic for 3-4 days. I got quite the reputation for that in jail... lol.. anyways after the severe withdrawl i had full body twitches every 40 seconds for 2 weeks and horrible anxiety untill i was released and got my klonopin back.... phew
 
^ Heroin plus bzd WD's? That must be the worst thing a human being can experience. I often have a hard time telling the WD symptoms between bzd's and opiates apart, but bzd's have proven to be just as difficult if not moreso.
 
add in alcohol withdrawls on top of that and you've got yourself the literal definition of "living hell".
 
I will say I recently bhad a solid month of alprazolam usage ( 3-4 bars a day, or 6-8mg daily). I used sporadically for about 6 months before this. Anyway.. after daily use, I had to start an outpatient program (not for xanax but it was related to a DUI), so naturally I had to quit taking alprazolam because of drug testing.

I was really scared b/c I had never withdrawn from it before. Luckily (thaink god) it was not that bad. I assure you, if I was on it for another month it woulda been unbearable.. but at the level I was at I was able to get through it relatively easy. I had what I considered a LOT of anxiety.. rebound hypertension.. my heart was like beating hard making it impossible to sleep. My body was just fucked.. like chills almost..hard to describe. Not like opiate withdrawals. Impossible to stay still though.. depression.. I was able to basically watch TV the whole time to get my mind off it..and I was able to follow the shows which goes to show you I was not hoirrlby in withdrawal.. cause you know whne its bad dope withdrawal you are just like rolling shitting pissing throiwn up on your self and shit.. I was not near this point.

Anyway.. after 6-9 days I was feeling like 80% recovered and starting to sleep better. Then things just got better and better. Since then (its been a year) I only take benzos when I get my monthly 30x 30mg temazpams (which I take pretty quick lol).

I was nowher enear seizure level (atleat I think..never had a seizure my self). How hard you are gonna withdraw depends mainly on two things.. how much you dosed, how frequently, and what time frame you used without a break i.e. a few weeks vs a few years in which case you would have no choice but to taper or you would likely die.
 
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