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Benzos Possibility of seizures

F1n1shed said:
Off topic a little. What are my chances of having a seizure if i go from .5mg clonazepam to nothing. Is that a low enough dose to be safe? Keep in mind i have only been on them for 4 months or so, and i usually don't dose more than 1.5mg on a good day.
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Well, to be honest: 95% chance you'll be fine but have some withdrawals (don't be fooled though, "some withdrawals" is still fucking awful)
but 5% chance you'll have a seizure. Do you really want to take that chance? I wouldn't. Seizures are fucking painful.
 
Jktm said:
I'm Rx'd 6mg of alprazolam currently and have a pain management appointment on monday. I got my refill on tuesday and am down to about 30 of my script of 90. In order for my urine levels to not be astronomically high in the benzodiazepine department I will have to stop taking my prescription until the day before. I've been on xanax the past 2 months with the last month being on 2mg tid.

With my dosing of 40-50mg per day, how likely is it that I will experience seizures? Also, is there anyway immediately accessible to help with withdrawals?
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90 2mg of xanax,ffs thats double the dose of the highest script i have ever heard of its hard enough to get 90 1mg scripts,your doctor should be shot.
 
Shit ive seen scripts of 120 bars before...i was on 4mgs a day and asked for another mg a day and he just gave me 6mg a day. So i get 90 too but lately for my own sake i take 30 and the rest end up elsewhere
 
Man, for years in my late teens and very early 20's I struggled with a severe life shattering addiction to Alprazolam, along with several other benzo's. 40 mg a day is an impossible dose. At my worst I was up to 8-12 mg a day and don't remember months of my life. I've had endless seizures in the past trying to go cold turkey or being forced into it. One time I fell back at work seizing and cracked my skull open. The effects of long term benzo use are only misery, suffering, suicidle tendancies, and severe addiction. I wish no kids would ever try Xanax and love it like I did...
 
As others have said you must seek help as an EMERGENCY not wait. Come clean don't bullshit your dose, it is no way to live. You MUST get it addressed.

Don't utterly panic there is a way out of this, you can taper off them but you need professional help with it for sure.

Good luck.
 
Probably made him pap himself. I honestly don't know how anyone ends up doing 40mg of Xanax mind.
So B.S. is a possibility, but you have to take it as real. Strange thing to B.S. about though if that is the case.
 
There is 0 recreational value in taking what you described unless comatose sleep is your shtick. I recently quit a xanax habit that saw doses of no more than 16mg. I remember popping 10 footballs (10mg) while driving and having a friend literally jump the fuck outta my car. After 12mg's it was a guaranteed blackout regardless of my tolerance. At doses above 16mg you could probably die from adding a 5mg percocet. It's like standing in a gasoline soaked room and deciding to have a smoke.

Detox's won't even touch you after you admit to a 16mg xanax habit - won't fucking touch you.
 
My hope is that the OP read the responses and got help immediately. Pretty much every single post in this thread said "you need to get help immediately" so maybe he saw his doc. If he did, the doc prolly flipped the fuck out. I really don't think any doctor would taper someone down from a 40mg a day habit without having them go to rehab. Perhaps that's what happened. Getting down from 40mg and then staying off is going to be a long and hard process that would def require some sort of dedicated plan i.e. 12-step, rehab, etc.
 
'medicine cabinet' said:
Shit ive seen scripts of 120 bars before...i was on 4mgs a day and asked for another mg a day and he just gave me 6mg a day. So i get 90 too but lately for my own sake i take 30 and the rest end up elsewhere
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Yea it's no surprise. You live in Baltimore, a drug infested shit hole :p
Of course the doc's are gonna be crooked there.
 
I actually take offence to that. Baltimore is not some drug infested shit hole, just like any major city there are problems with drugs and crime, and fla has more crooked drs than any state in the country. Baltimore has lots of great stuff. Yea heroin has been big since the fifties, but a lot of ne cities have huge heroin probs. Baltimore is an awesome city.
 
I've only been to Baltimore once, but I don't remember it seeming that bad. Obviously I wasn't in the hood. Oakland on the other hand is basically one giant ghetto. Downtown is just as dangerous as the hood. There is literally nothing nice about Oakland at all. Youngstown, Detroit, East St. Louis, and others are def worse than Baltimore. You can't just go by stats.
 
Yea plus baltimore is a small ass city, so per capita stats make it seem like heroin and murder all the time. Plus all the "gangstars" call it bodymore murdaland doesnt help. Plus even tho the wire is a great show it does portray baltimore kind of negatively...it doesnt show all the great stuff about the city.
 
Poster has not replied since august 2, last activity on august 2, hope he's ok lol.

50mg...what the dick man. Jesus.
 
'medicine cabinet' said:
I actually take offence to that. Baltimore is not some drug infested shit hole, just like any major city there are problems with drugs and crime, and fla has more crooked drs than any state in the country. Baltimore has lots of great stuff. Yea heroin has been big since the fifties, but a lot of ne cities have huge heroin probs. Baltimore is an awesome city.
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My bad man, was a cold hearted joke. I live in LA so there is definitely shit hole areas in my city to.
I hear the dope in Baltimore is fire , i wish i could try some.
 
Yes, I realize I was fucking stupid and I put myself in this situation. Sorry for not replying to this. I guess I didn't explain the situation clearly. I had been taking them as directed for a while, but then when this last prescription came in, I got stupid and ran through almost all of it in 3 days and then seeing what I had done, slowed the fuck down on them. I just got through the withdrawals, and they were a little rough - not nearly as bad as I thought (though I had 30mg of temaz a day, which in comparison is nothing, but gives some relief and is long lasting), but no seizures thankfully. I was habituated to 6mg per day, not 40, I just had 40mg throughout the day, not at once for a couple days and was worried about what the increase had done to my chances of seizing.

I guess what happened for this situation to occur was me trying to get high (which, I'm not going to lie, takes 14-16mg minimum normally, but I was also taking my soma with it, so I guess I blacked out and once you black out on gaba-ergics, most people will keep popping them without realizing it. Nothing super bad except pretty bad detox for a few days, mental instability, and now being anxious as hell. I sure sat shaking at my pain management appointment like I had fucking Parkinson's disease. I was really worried, as usually benzo w/d normally causes high bp, but mine was 89/53 at the appointment.

Thanks for the concern, and sorry for posting something so absurd.
 
Hey no worries man, its coo.

And interesting the op is still alive lol...i knew there was more info, even though 20 bars in a day is still a ton. I dont know why you get your bars, mine are for anxiety and also off label for my migraines, actually helps keep them in check without being on some crazy strong anti seizure med, plus when i get a bad one i will take a larger than normal dose with my immitrex and i can get some sleep. But i would def reccomend getting off the xans to something longer lasting if you have to be on a benzo. Good to see you didnt have any seizures, i have to say im surprised.
 
at my worst i was taking 180 2mg xanax in anywhere from 3 to 5 days and i think because it was such a short stent i never experienced wds only rebound anxiety and insomnia
 
TBH I'm on Xanax because it's the only thing that works for me. Clonazepam doesn't help my anxiety and it sure as hell doesn't stop my panic attacks. I also personally use them for the muscle relaxant activity, and now that you mention it, I notice I have a lot more migrains when I'm not on them.

And yes, I have a large prescription, but believe me or not I know someone that used to get 120 every 15 days.
 
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