Benzos I'm done with benzos

[devilinthemoon]

I didn't read this thread but..

Your down with benzo's???

.........................................BENZOS ARENT DONE WITH YOU.

 

[Treefa]

I never understand when people use benzodiazepines recreationally.

Personally I take from .5 to 1.5 mg of xanax everyday because I'm so scared to quit.
I take them for anxiety and to assist sleep, and even though I take low doses, it has become a habit and I'm scared of withdrawal.
I started on ativan 1mg and I stupidly abused them..once I tried to quit and took a smaller amnt and I couldn't sleep all night and I was so restless.

I regularly take 30-70mg of hydrocodone for back pain, and if I dont take at least .5 mg of xanax ill be twacked out like I took some adderall with it.

But i digress, benzos are not to be taken lightly(or heavily lol..pun), and I feel had i never started them my anxiety would have probably worked itself out by now..

Good luck in your quitting, good for you.
Perhaps ill work up the courage someday.
Ive went down as low as .125 mg on occasion with no ill effects (other drugs such as opiates or large amounts of marijuana were consumed which made it much easier, but right now I'm too broke and am nearly out of weed and I ran out of my lortabs early so benzos are necessity during times like these haha).

You can do it man, most of it is mind over matter, tapering makes it loads easier.

Godspeed capn!

 

[jonny1]

Ok so what i think im going to do is keep taking .25mg klonopin til the semester ends then taper off for winter break and hopefully be off completely by next semester.. but i can only hope

 

[MagickalKat777]

That's a doable plan as long as you don't put yourself at risk of using other GABAergics - the easiest way to fall off of a well-thought out taper plan is to leave out the factor of your environment. I've pretty much isolated myself because all of my friends drink and I don't think I'd be able to be around beer and vodka and not partake of any. I can control how much I consume but with benzos, even one beer can start post-acute withdrawal syndrome *sigh*

 

[Gratuitous Grace]

I never understand when people use benzodiazepines recreationally.

Personally I take from .5 to 1.5 mg of xanax everyday because I'm so scared to quit.
I take them for anxiety and to assist sleep, and even though I take low doses, it has become a habit and I'm scared of withdrawal.
I started on ativan 1mg and I stupidly abused them..once I tried to quit and took a smaller amnt and I couldn't sleep all night and I was so restless.

I regularly take 30-70mg of hydrocodone for back pain, and if I dont take at least .5 mg of xanax ill be twacked out like I took some adderall with it.

But i digress, benzos are not to be taken lightly(or heavily lol..pun), and I feel had i never started them my anxiety would have probably worked itself out by now..

Good luck in your quitting, good for you.
Perhaps ill work up the courage someday.
Ive went down as low as .125 mg on occasion with no ill effects (other drugs such as opiates or large amounts of marijuana were consumed which made it much easier, but right now I'm too broke and am nearly out of weed and I ran out of my lortabs early so benzos are necessity during times like these haha).

You can do it man, most of it is mind over matter, tapering makes it loads easier.

Godspeed capn!

I think there are some nice thoughts throughout this thread ... and especially here ---^

Yeah, I read all of these threads that basically boil down to, "Fun with Benzos" ... and I just think, "wow, you're in for a world of pain if you keep that up."

I started using Xanax (illicitly via Indian and Brazilian pharmacies) in the fall of 2000 for anxiety. By the fall of 2003, I was up to 6 or 7 mg a day and finally broke down and saw a psychiatrist because sourcing started to become an issue. He just shook his head and said, "you will never be free of Xanax ... all I can do is keep giving you scripts." I got down to about 5 mg a day on my own ... but the whole habit -- combined with 8 or 10 drinks a day -- was just ruining my life and everything I was trying to do. What a mess I had made of things.

I stopped drinking on Christmas Day 2007 and switched over (on an outpatient basis) to a high dose of Klonopin (10 or 15 mg -- I've forgotten the exact amount) on New Year's Day. That was some holiday season! OMG ... I was out of my mind. I then tapered rapidly down to a more reasonable daily dose of Klonopin. Fast forward, and I've been "tapering" -- if you can even call it that -- ever since. Almost six years on, and I'm still at 1-1/2 mg of Klonopin. I said to my current psychiatrist (probably my tenth in ten years) the other night: "if you had told me 13 years ago when I took my first Xanax that you and I would be sitting here tonight talking about how I can't rid myself of Benzos, I wouldn't have believed it in a million years."

People think that Benzos must be safe and fun because big pharma makes them. And yet numerous doctors have told me that Xanax couldn't possibly receive FDA approval today.

 

[bdomihizayka]

People think that Benzos must be safe and fun because big pharma makes them. And yet numerous doctors have told me that Xanax couldn't possibly receive FDA approval today.

Totally agree with that, and totally feel the pit of my stomach churn when I read threads of people trying to abuse benzos...many seem to not know what they're in for.

I've had horrible experiences with so many drugs, meth psychosis, too much lsd, peyote, dmt, salvia...a psychological/physical addiction to heroin, and nothing can even begin to compare with benzo withdrawal (from .5mg clonazepam/day for 3 WEEKS), and the subsequent post acute withdrawal syndrome.

You're in college dude? Drop the parties, you shouldn't be drinking for a long time if you value your sanity. Like others said, one drink can set you right on back to where you were.... wait like 6 months- 1 year to drink if you indeed must.

And also, clonazepam is the notoriously worst benzo to come off of after my hundreds of hours of research and it seems to be so because it's also the only benzo that has serotonergic activity...clonazepam decreases the utilization of 5-HT (serotonin) by neurons...

Chronic administration of the benzodiazepine, clonazepam, increased the number of [3H]-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT1) binding sites in the frontal cortex of the rat. The increase reflected a change in the maximum density of binding sites (Bmax) with no change in ligand affinity (Kd). Increased binding occurred after continued exposure (10 days) to large (5.0 mg/kg) doses of clonazepam. The changes in [3H]5-HT binding were regional in that they occurred in membranes from the frontal cortex but not the brainstem. The effects were also at least partially selective for 5-HT receptors since the binding of the β-adrenergic radioligand, [3H]dihydroalprenolol, was not affected by clonazepam. A second benzodiazepine, diazepam, did not affect the binding of [3H]5-HT at doses of 30 mg/kg per day. The latter data suggest that the effects of benzodiazepines on serotonin 5-HT1 receptors are unique to clonazepam.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2418653

 

[MagickalKat777]

People think that Benzos must be safe and fun because big pharma makes them. And yet numerous doctors have told me that Xanax couldn't possibly receive FDA approval today.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Its curious how so many people who have problems getting off of benzos started on Xanax or Klonopin though. Most that start off on Valium or Ativan don't have near the issues that the other two do. I started off on Xanax then moved to Klonopin and I'm finally settling down with a Valium taper right now but this benzo hell has gone on since 2004 for me when my doctor gave me a Xanax in his office and I felt so good that I never bothered to look up the risks like I usually would. I wish I never took the crap. I can't work or even leave the house now because my nerves are so fried.

 

[jonny1]

Bad news. I realized I only have 9 .25mg klonopins left ....and if the doc wont prescribe me more than I'm screwed....right?

 

[habsfan89]

hi, im new on this site, ive been on Klonopin for maybe 4 years, but there were many period where i wouldnt take any benzos for like 6 months, but smoked lot of weed. But since 1 year, i stopped weed and was very anxious, so ive been taken klonapin at list 2 times a weeks, but for the last 4 months ive been taking 1mg a day 4-5 days per week.

now i want get off them, will i experience wthdrawal? if yes, how i can get off them without having seizure and or terrible withdrawal?

is it possible to have seizure with that qantity of use?

bump plz, i need to know if i can get off cold turkey without any risk? the seizure scared me the most, even tho i dont even know what the symptoms are.

or if its better to taper?

my usual dosage was 1mg klonopin 2-3 times a week but more of every day in the last 2 weeks.

and ive GAD and in school(and cant quit), so i cant have terrible withdrawals, what should i do?

 

[habsfan89]

sorry for my english...

also, i was a heavy marijuana users for years, and ive been on and off the weed since my GAD started at 18 years old. im 24 now. With docs putting me on and off zoloft, remeron, cipralez, paxil etc. but like many others, secondary effects were too bad and didnt help much with the anxiety.

anyway, i stopped all antidepressant all summer and werent feeling well at all, terrible anxiety, so i took more benzo but never every day because i knew it was addictive, but not that much(from what ive been reading in this thread and the seizures...)

i saw a psychiatrist like 2 months ago who put me back on 100mg zoloft and 7.5 mg remoeron(to help sleep),( i was in a very bad shape(mental health)) and stopped smoking weed. But since ive GAD, its the period when i stop smoking than a take the more benzos...the doc said it was better for me. so i took 1mg klonopin 2-3 times a weeks for the last 2 months.

i hadnt smoked weed since this summer and last week was my week off at school after exam week, so after reading this forum, i got the great idea to take 4 mg klonopin, 3mg xanax, and smoke weed(nice feeling btw). Ended up doing that all week...

and now, i really wanna quit benzos, more than weed, since i know its more dangerous and addictive, so should it be better if i keep smoking weed to help with the benzos withdrawals for a period of time?

 

[MagickalKat777]

Marijuana can actually make the withdrawals worse and I already answered your other questions earlier in the thread, go back and read.

@jonny1 - you aren't screwed per se. I would go see a doctor and worse case scenario, go to the ER when you're in withdrawal. Benzo withdrawal is considered a medical emergency and any hospital worth its salt will at least get you in an outpatient detox program.

 

[habsfan89]

i had read ur post, u said u werent really sure how to do it since i was not a daily user long term

why the fuck u think i ask another time, to have a better answer.

k, thaNKS.

 

[MagickalKat777]

i had read ur post, u said u werent really sure how to do it since i was not a daily user long term

why the fuck u think i ask another time, to have a better answer.

k, thaNKS.

I answered your question. You shouldn't have too many issues since you're able to get by without daily consumption.

By the way, you won't last here very long addressing people like that. We just simply will ignore.

Carry on!