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Benzos xanax withdrawal?

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budsnbars712

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So I am on a taper for xanax. I was on 2.5 mg's for a long time and then dropped down to 2.0 mg within a month. Now I am currently cutting dosage by .25 mg's (supposed to be every week) but if I start to feel that is too quick, I will be cutting by .25 every 2 weeks like what is recommended unless I switch to a longer acting benzo like valium....I was on 2.0 mg's 6 days ago and then cut to 1.75mg 5 days ago...

For the past couple of days at work, I feel like I have LICE!!!! My head randomly gets itchy and then I begin to obsess about it. Then when I am busy and not thinking about it, I don't even feel anything...

Now I do get my head skin shaved to a number 1 buzz on top, so I feel like the chances of me having lice with this little hair is almost impossible...but i am also thinking that maybe I caught it from the barber's buzzers. I am unsure if I am just going thru minor withdrawal or tolerance withdrawal (which I always experiance) since I am on such a short acting benzo and have not upped my dose in years. Is this a side effect of withdrawal (itching, obsessing...)? Or do I actually have some gross shit living in my hair. I almost jumped the gun and was about to call my barber and bitch them out saying I might pursue legal action, which in reality, there isn't much you can do if you get lice from a barber....

PS-I am clean cut and take showers daily, IF I was to have lice, I can guarantee that it was from the dirty barber shop..
 
lol, its about becoming obsessive when coming down from xanax. I didn't feel anything for the rest of the day as I did not think about it, but I got checked and it seems that I am all good...wtf..itchies from xanax withdrawal? Or obsessed thinking...
 
Haha I know what you mean dude. I just recently got off Xanax (58 days clean) and I do remember for the first 2 weeks of the withdrawal, my anxiety spiked, my mind felt foggy, I acted somewhat compulsively and got weird "pins and needles" feelings all over my skin. This may be related to your body adjusting to lower dosages of Xanax.. I remember when I would taper down 0.25 mg and I felt absolutely shitty with similar side-effects you described as my body tried to adapt to the lower dose, causing mild withdrawal symptoms.

I detoxed from Xanax about 2 months ago.. i used to take 4 mgs everyday as prescribed and took for about 18 months or 1 and a 1/2 years. When i decided i wanted to get off, I was put on klonopin with the understanding that I was going to taper and stop taking Xanax for a LONG time. I would suggest maybe going a little slower on the taper you described, as I was dropping my dosage by 0.25 mg every 2 weeks and it wasn't too bad, but for the first 3 days after dropping the dose, I would feel slight withdrawal symptoms. After that, I switched to Klonopin once I got down to 1 mg of Xanax and then dropped the dose by 0.25 mg every 2 weeks until I was at 0.125 mg. I discontinued after staying on that dose for a few days and while the withdrawal did suck pretty badly, but it was not absolute hell because I tapered very slowly. Just take your time when you titrate the dose, but if you intend to get off, make sure you do drop the dose at any point you feel comfortable. The withdrawal lasted about 3 weeks for me, and now has pretty much disappeared.. it can be done if you really want to get off
 
I always hear that you need to be in the right "state of mind" or have the right mind frame to get off...I want to real bad as I cannot take these mini withdrawals, tolerance withdrawal, rebound anxiety that these pills give me even before the tapering...Now I woke and today in a bad state of mind. This scares me big time. All night I kept thinking about my long time ex-gf of 7 years and I cannot shake this. I have been depressed for years and years and tried SSRI's. Now I am trying to taper from xanax and my head wasn't on straight in the first place....I am ultra fucking worried. I don't believe I can handle this that much longer until I have a breakdown. I was already fucked up when I went on this drug three years ago, and nothing has gotten better since..only temporary relief for the time I was on a dose of xanax that worked, but like I said, only temporary and for a very short time..

This also before my first dose also..i have not taken anything yet today...But sometimes even if i do, It doesn't always fix the way I am feeling.
 
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