Has anyone experienced this personally?
I am coming down from 30mg a day of Diazepam.
When I got to 10mg a day, I decided to drop it faster than the pdoc recommended (1mg less per week until 0mg)
Went from 10 to 7 to 4 to 2 in four weeks.
Felt rotten the whole time, and now I am back up to 10mg again to try and stop this horrible withdrawal symptoms.
Not sure I will ever get off this drug without a lot of issues
NEVER do this with benzos, benzo withdrawal can be FATAL. You basically go into seizures and then die from it. I have seen it happen before, luckily we treated before they died but the seizure was quite frightening.
I didnât know that. Will see what the doctor says on the 11th Sept. Not sure how impressed heâs going to be
Have also cut procycldine at the same time, so could be that too
The hardest thing for me coming off benzos. ( and at one point I was also on 30mg) was cutting back from 10mg-0mg.
I think it may have taken a whole year to get from 10mg to 0mg. It has to be taken very slowly. Unfortunately you will have to be patient.
When I came off Ativan, it was pure hell. I was having severe anxiety, couldnât stay still, heart palpitations, suicidal thoughts, ECT⌠Benzo withdrawal is very serious. It can lead to seizures and heart problems. Tapering off very slowly is recommended.
Ok thatâs not good
I was hoping to lower my AP, but this might stop that
The doctor has called a review, so I will see what he says
I think theyâre hoping pregabalin will stop the transition from being bad. He thinks the dose of that might need raising to compensate.
Not impressed
Your doctor should have told you.
You need to come off of benzos slowly and carefully. It may take a long time.
Yes I quit xanax abruptly on the advice from my pdoc. I had severe muscle spasms, insomnia and severe anxiety. I was sure I was dying when my legs went numb. I was eventually told it âtriggeredâ sz
and Iâve been on and off aps ever since.
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I had a gran mal coming off of xanax. I wasnât on a lot and I think a lot of our meds lower that seizure threshhold. I stopped abruptly and that wasnât any fun waking up in the back of an ambulance.
That sounds really scary. I am sorry that happened to you
Yeah just saying itâs so important to titrate off of benzoâs. I didnât think itâd be a problem but it wasâŚStrange how some of the meds affect you and weâre all different. Take is slow.
I will. I wish I had never started taking them again. I wasnât even given them by the doctor. There were boxes and boxes of Diazepam in my drawer, and I started self-medicating, and then the doctor wrote me scripts.
Big mistake.
If I had known then what I do nowâŚ
I swear last time I got off them ok. I donât know why itâs so hard this time.
I want to lower my AP, but I doubt the pdoc will sanction that whilst this is going on
Get stable first and off them then worry about coming down off you ap.
It took me a while but Iâve changed things a lot moving forward. Just to get that balance between symptoms and side effects. Itâs worth the effort sometimesâŚAnyways. Take your time and just get through this firstâŚcoming down on your ap may be realistic when your through the benzoâs.
The doctor has given me an appointment on the 11th September. I am going to stick to 10mg for a while as I think thatâs enough reduction.
This has been going on for like 16 weeks now, and I think my body is starting to fight back against it.
Maybe we can try again in a few months or something? At least itâs down by a third?
We are all different. Listen to the doc. I came off of xanax myself but just did it over a few months. I think over a couple it should be pretty cool but Iâm just an internet dude and doctors if they are any good would have seen this. STill. I told my Australian shrink when I came back to here and he was surprised about what I was taking but still. It wasnât unexpected.
Benzodiazepines help me a lot, I couldnât live without them
Maybe this is true for me too and coming off them is a bad idea
I have a lot of social anxiety and with lorazepan and rivotril 2mg I am very well, my pdoc told me you have to take them to avoid suffering and he told me if you did not take them you would have to drink 2 or 3 beers to calm down
They have put me on Pregabalin and they told me it was replacing the Diazepam.
Doesnât seem to have worked that way