Mandatory Cold Turkey from Lorazepam

[Taught]

Total of 180 1mg in two months, drinking and heavy hydrocodone use. Can't get script for three more days. In fact, I have not had benzo for Three days. Didn't sleep first night, slept subsequent nights, but worried about seizures due to heavy caning, at least subjectively for myself. I have norco 5 which I have been using plus alcohol to ease the pressure, if I am in three days and have not had the major breakout w/d symptoms, am I ok? I have vetted through endless threads and understand tapering, will use next script to taper off and reduce the effects of substances used now in regards to easing the pressure. I have felt highly manic and obsessive thinking which when I close my eyes, endless imagery. So, in total, again, am I good considering three days dry , or am I flirting,(outside of the standard "taper idiot"). Of course each person's metabolism is unique and the effects of withdrawal individual, I just need some insight beyond my own head space. The opiates are obviously masking the physical hits and the alcohol is dampening the gabba response, so ....

Final point, I have a ghetto doctor who is checking my progress and watching for med grabbing, so I don't feel comfortable going to the E.R....

Got scolded by my Pharmicist for trying to get the script filled early, got the fear of being yanked.

Finally, in this long winded beginning of a thread, I have decided to get off the ativan, as it's made for robot minds, not the organic nature of human beings. My silly take...

 

[Jabberwocky]

Stopping benzos cold turkey isn't recommended for safety's sake. I know many doctors favor switching to diazepam or clonazapam for a taper because of their longer half lives. I'm going to send to Basic Drug Discussion but I'll watch to see if this gets sent to Other Drugs for my own education about where things go.

Homeless-----------------------------> BDD

 

[Taught]

For anyone who would want to know. Cold turkey is rough. I am at a point where I will get shifts of being fine, then wham! I get chills or heat up and get manic heart rates and have to lay down. Another interesting thing is how messed up benzos take out memory. I feel so dynamic versus being, well I don't know I can't seem to remember. Luckily I got a basement dungeon to rot in, movies and games, pizza and beer. Can eat, though threw up today, I thought I was somehow a lucky one who didn't experience the w/d, nope they are just delayed?

Anyhow, I have traumatic head injury and was prescribed to control and manage my emotions and mania, well, they aren't worth it.

 

[psychopath]

If you are already at day 3 the seizure period I believe has passed. And, all things considered, 180 1 mg is not that much over 2 months. Hospitals and rehab facilities often use Librium (a benzo) to seizure proof and lessen symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. Could work other way too maybe....

 

[Taught]

Thanks psychopath, I needed to get some insights which I wasn't finding because every site has been laced with "taper" versus cold turkey remedies.

I think the alcohol and the norco has helped and I think that you are right in saying that it wasn't too much for two months because while I feel weak, I have been drinking and using the norco constantly for the last week, morning to night. I actually am having chopped up sleep patterns now but it could be because I am offline and living in a beer/norco bubble.

I think that if this was mild, I don't want to know what a heavy withdrawal would be, because I felt wired up and it was dragging on.