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jazee
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Re: Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos
11/20/04 12:59 PM

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Oooh..so hard to say!! Back when i was on Klonopin about four years ago, I started out taking 0.50 mg 1-2 times a day rx'd by my doc. When I took it into my own hands, I started ordering 2 mg tabs and took it about 5-6 times a day. But then I was also mixing many many pharmaceuticals together at the same time. It was bad, bad, bad and I was in even worse shape.

Most recently, I had been taking Xanax occasionally, VERY occasionally for my anxiety and panic attacks. I bought it from OPs and used only 0.50 mg tabs and even cut them in half to use the 0.25 mg dose. I MIGHT have taken 1 mg on a heavy use day. I never noticed any w/d symptoms on this dosage until just recently in August-September when I was trying to stop taking Hydro and would use the Xanax for that reason. During that time, my dose probably doubled to about 2 mg on a heavy use day. Somehow, someway this was enough to make me become physically addicted and have severe w/d symptoms without any meds to cover it up.

Because those benzo w/d symptoms were so horrendous, I have no desire whatsoever to use a benzo med for the rest of my life. I NEVER want to experience that again!! It was that awful. However, I totally fear the day I get a panic attack again. I never enjoyed the effects of benzo's meaning that it wasn't a euphoric feeling I got from them...i just relief of my anxiety, the nervousness, the tremors from my internal fears.

Hope this made some sense to you....

You didn't mention how you went off the Xanax. By the description of how terrible the withdrawl was, I'm guessing you stopped taking it cold turkey, or reduced your dosage very fast, like 2mg one day, 1.5 mg next day, 1 mg next day, .5 mg next day, STOP. Wither way (especially with cold turkey) it is expected you would have really bad withdrawl. I'm glad I learned about the problems with withdrawl. I keep a stash of Valium in case by Xanax/Ativan doses become more frequent and higher to the point where I can't stop taking them all together so I can switch to Valium for a couple weeks with gradually decreasing dosages. The withdrawl is virtually painless that way. Although anyone with propensity for anxiety/panic, is going to have somewhat of a rebound effect if they've been use to being on these drugs. The key is to keep the doses as low and as infrequent as possible and if the doses are high or frequent over long-term, switch to Klonopin or Valium and reduce dosage by 25% each week over 4 weeks - that has seemed to be a good formula.

I'm at the point where I'll take mayebe 1mg Xanax or 2mg Ativan once a day, maybe 4 days in a row, then none the fifth day, then 3 days in a row, then skip a day. I recently stopped taking them for 2 days in a row. I did notice a mild tension on the second day so I'm probably just riding the threshold of potential significant withdrawl, but at least I know if I lost all my medication, I wouldn't have to panic for fear of going into seizures.

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Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos	jazee	11/15/04 06:54 PM
Re: Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos	Pocahontas	11/15/04 08:17 PM
Re: Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos	jazee	11/15/04 08:21 PM
Re: Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos	Pocahontas	11/16/04 01:45 PM
Re: Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos	jazee	11/20/04 12:59 PM
Re: Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos	Pocahontas	11/20/04 04:55 PM
Re: Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos	Nitrous	11/16/04 02:44 PM
Re: Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos	Nitrous	11/16/04 11:04 AM
Re: Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos	emtp3	11/16/04 12:05 PM

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