Trigger Warning Safely restarting GABAergic drugs after a tolerance break

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I've learnt my gaba lesson after what I expect was a relatively easy few weeks of withdrawal compared to what others painfully have to go through.

I stopped all GABAergic drugs for 2 weeks+, for context I've had an alcohol problem for 30 years, and have been taking 2g Soma 3+ times a week, 40-60mg equiv of diazepam twice a week, and weekly 600-900mg pregab and ~3-4ml GBL.

Last night I had 10mg of Diazepam with some weed and it kicked pretty hard, I was quite surprised by how hard and how fast my tolerance seems to be resetting, clearly cross tolerance plays a big part but shit, this honestly caught me out.

My plan is to reduce my GABA intake overall and the types of drugs I take, but I will restart taking gaba in a few weeks, I'm planning to:-

1. Permanently quit Alcohol, Soma and GBL - From my research these are the priority given impact
2. Continue my GABA break for another 2 - 4 weeks so I can get back to baseline
3. Stop taking/significantly reduce Benzo use recreationally - Goal is to use post stim use and occasional rec use at around 10-20mg per week max
4. Introduce Gabapentin and alternate it with pregabalin - I'll aim to use these on there own once per week, or potentially at half doses together, targeting 300mg equiv pregab dose
5. Regular Gaba tolerance breaks to reset
6. Occasional minor stim/mdma/2c-b use

clearly I will have some bigger weeks....

Any feedback or advice on my plan?

Any insight on dosage after a tolerance break? I'll be careful and will start low/go slow, but I'm ashamed to say at times in the past few years I've had no issue over a day drinking half a bottle of whiskey with 900mg pregab 40mg diazepam, 2g soma, 2mg kpin, along with a fair bit of coke. I know this is dangerous, but I have a little bit of tolerance..... Even after 2 weeks it's clear that this would floor/kill me. What hard max amounts of pregab and diazepam do people stuggest in 1 sitting?