sleepwalker
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Hello,
My wife has been prescribed 200MG of Oxazepam a day for two years now.
She's not been taking the whole prescription during that time, but uses to vary between 1and 5 of 50mg per day.
Her psych want her to quit using the Oxazepam, by using diazepam.
First he wants to transfer her prescription into diazepam and then lower the dose each week.
He wants to use a taper program of 8 weeks.
His initial idea is to switch to 2MG tablets of diazepam and we are still not sure how much Diazepam will be prescribed.
Now i've been a long term user of benzo's and imo the 8 week taper is rather short, and i'm kinda affraid she'll be expieriencing more stress than she can handle in such a short period.
Some extra info:
She's been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome lately, and besides that has been suffering from Borderline personality disorder, with post traumatic stress disorder.
Plus she's had a lot of psychotic episodes in the past and dissociative episodes as well.
She's recently suffering from those as well and often finds that she's been cutting herself during those episodes without any recollection afterwards.
Recently she stopped taking Risperidon 2 MG a day, and has Seroquel 400MG a day instead.
She also stopped with 25MG Phenergan, and takes 20MG Temazepam instead. (This in consultation with her psych)
Her other meds atm are 150MG Sarotex (amytriptyline), 0.075MG of Thyrax (for her hypothyroid disease) , and 40MG of Dex-amphetamines a day (for her ADHD).
These last meds she only takes when nescesary.
Now for the questions, after the long story .
My wife usually responds pretty badly to Diazepam, but her Psych still wants her to transfer to them.
This is esp. the case ,when taking small ammounts. She can expierience the opposite effects.
Our questions are:
A : Is there any other benzo, with a long halflife, that can be used to switch to and then taper off from, instead of the diazepam?
B : What is a reasonable period to switch and taper from a two year use of Oxazepam?
And the most important question of all:
C : What can be considered to be the equivalent to 200MG of Oxazepam? The info we found on different sites, does vary quite a bit. We did read through the Benzo -mega-thread, and lots of other threads on the topic, but the answer to this question still is inconclusive.
Taken in consideration, that my wife is not in a hurry to stop her Benzo use, but finds it more important to keep her life on track and be able to keep doing the things, that are expected of her , being a mother of two small children and a good wife to me , as her husband.
The main reason that we want to keep her life going in the good direction , is that we have been under investigation of the Child Abuse Agency, by a false accusation by my sister in law. This has been the cause of most of the stress we have been expieriencing in these last 2 years, for we both did not take any meds at all, before that investigation and all the trouble in our lives began.
This whole investigation has been concluded and there is no one that is interfering with our lives anymore.
All the agencies and people involved have made their apologies, but we are left with the ongoing stress and disruption of our normal family life.
We have worked very hard to get our lives back on track and are succeeding in that.
But we can use all the input from any Bluelighters, who have expierience with Benzo tapering.
Thank you for reading this and any replies. will be greatly appreciated.
My wife has been prescribed 200MG of Oxazepam a day for two years now.
She's not been taking the whole prescription during that time, but uses to vary between 1and 5 of 50mg per day.
Her psych want her to quit using the Oxazepam, by using diazepam.
First he wants to transfer her prescription into diazepam and then lower the dose each week.
He wants to use a taper program of 8 weeks.
His initial idea is to switch to 2MG tablets of diazepam and we are still not sure how much Diazepam will be prescribed.
Now i've been a long term user of benzo's and imo the 8 week taper is rather short, and i'm kinda affraid she'll be expieriencing more stress than she can handle in such a short period.
Some extra info:
She's been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome lately, and besides that has been suffering from Borderline personality disorder, with post traumatic stress disorder.
Plus she's had a lot of psychotic episodes in the past and dissociative episodes as well.
She's recently suffering from those as well and often finds that she's been cutting herself during those episodes without any recollection afterwards.
Recently she stopped taking Risperidon 2 MG a day, and has Seroquel 400MG a day instead.
She also stopped with 25MG Phenergan, and takes 20MG Temazepam instead. (This in consultation with her psych)
Her other meds atm are 150MG Sarotex (amytriptyline), 0.075MG of Thyrax (for her hypothyroid disease) , and 40MG of Dex-amphetamines a day (for her ADHD).
These last meds she only takes when nescesary.
Now for the questions, after the long story .
My wife usually responds pretty badly to Diazepam, but her Psych still wants her to transfer to them.
This is esp. the case ,when taking small ammounts. She can expierience the opposite effects.
Our questions are:
A : Is there any other benzo, with a long halflife, that can be used to switch to and then taper off from, instead of the diazepam?
B : What is a reasonable period to switch and taper from a two year use of Oxazepam?
And the most important question of all:
C : What can be considered to be the equivalent to 200MG of Oxazepam? The info we found on different sites, does vary quite a bit. We did read through the Benzo -mega-thread, and lots of other threads on the topic, but the answer to this question still is inconclusive.
Taken in consideration, that my wife is not in a hurry to stop her Benzo use, but finds it more important to keep her life on track and be able to keep doing the things, that are expected of her , being a mother of two small children and a good wife to me , as her husband.
The main reason that we want to keep her life going in the good direction , is that we have been under investigation of the Child Abuse Agency, by a false accusation by my sister in law. This has been the cause of most of the stress we have been expieriencing in these last 2 years, for we both did not take any meds at all, before that investigation and all the trouble in our lives began.
This whole investigation has been concluded and there is no one that is interfering with our lives anymore.
All the agencies and people involved have made their apologies, but we are left with the ongoing stress and disruption of our normal family life.
We have worked very hard to get our lives back on track and are succeeding in that.
But we can use all the input from any Bluelighters, who have expierience with Benzo tapering.
Thank you for reading this and any replies. will be greatly appreciated.
