How many people here are on a benzodiazepine regularly?
I take Valium every day. 1 or 2mg. Getting off it.
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I take oxazepam 3-4 times a week when necessary. If you take benzoes daily it loose some of its effect
Good idea to get of it.
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I used to.
I no longer take.
And I’m glad
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I have Diazepam but I don’t take it regularly. When I start feeling like my brain is rotting away and I become essentially demented, I usually take 10 mg, usually just once a week, sometime every 2 weeks.
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I used to take ativan and other longer- acting benzo’s. What a nightmare!! It erased my memory. I could not remember anything short-term, and it did not really help with my anxiety. Now, I stay away from benzo’s like the plague.
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I get 7, 10mg of Valium - once in a blue moon off the GP, normally cos of triggers of the ex-wife and missing my daughter. And those 7 pills normally last me a couple of months, cos i only take them as a last resort.
My goto stress pill is normally 25mg of Seraquol.
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I used to…
Now I take prazepam occasionally
(about 10mg per week.)
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Been on up to klonopin .5 prn daily for quite some time now. Been on klonopin for 10 1/2 years now and never built a tolerance or anything. Klonopin helps keep me stable. I started off on different doses but settled for .25 or .5 per day depending on how I feel. It works really well. It annoys me when people try to tell me klonopin is gonna ruin my life, etc… then they ask how long I’ve been on it I say 10 1/2 years and they’re befuddled considering I haven’t gone up but rather down in dose. Everybody is obviously different but if it works and is needed it should be considered. I’m just lucky it did work so well. I was probably the last candidate for klonopin when they initially gave it to me. But it worked out alright. Funny how it all works 
Another thing. People asked me “is your memory bad”. I’m like nah I remember too much… they say oh it’s probably cuz you’re on a low dose. I say probably true…
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i cant survive without my benzo. I take clobazam 20mg daily
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i used to take lorazepam but now only as PRN med… i don’t take it often anymore… just once in a while when things get bad.
I used to take Ativan 1mg 3x a day for a year and a half. I started abusing it but luckily got help and now I’m completely off of it. I’ll never touch another benzo again
I take 1mg of Klonopin every day. 
The county mental health I go to doesn’t allow anyone to be on benzos
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I’m on 1.5mg of klonopin a day.
Have been for years.
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I don’t take them my doctor won’t prescribe them. I have a prescription for gabapentin and propranolol but I stopped taking them and lift weights now. Weight lifting and cardio are good for anxiety!
My doctor won’t prescribe them to anyone.
I take 0.5mg of Ativan as prn but most of the time I take two so 1mg. I get a quantity of 30 per month.
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I was on 30mg of Diazepam a day for two years. Last year got it down to 10mg and that took about 5 months.
Now I am missing lots of doses of 5mg a time, and it seems to be working out ok
If I feel ill I will take it, but apart from that no.
Stupid pills. They don’t do a thing and I only take them to stave off withdrawal. No therapeutic benefit to them. I am physically dependent on them now
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I was on 0.5mg of clonazepam for over a year but slowly tapered off it, still had 3 weeks of withdrawals… I’ve taken lorazepam 1mg PRN for over a decade, but rarely, maybe a few times a year.