Posted by onlymeisee on July 10, 2001, at 13:28:54
In reply to Re: Xanax » onlymeisee, posted by Elizabeth on July 9, 2001, at 21:54:17
Hi, thanks all for your replys! I am feeling stuckk here. I can't find a doc thats one of the problems. Thats why I was wondering how to taper myself. My doc lost her lisense. No other docs will see me..I have tried them all. I live in a town...small small town and they are having major crackdown on drugs and the last doc i seen even told me...I will not perscribe you xanax right now because they are the police are investigating it all so close. I am alone in this. If I go far out of town they then think something is funny like maybe you are seeing more then one doc. I wish I would have never been put on this freakin Monster. The medical community is what did this. I never got hooked on anything till the doc gave me this for panic, now im hooked and shes gone and once again the medical profession is not caring about withdrawls. They dont even think they are real. I live in the most backwoods place there is. They know nothing. I am going to try to cut 6% a month..thats slow but I tried 12% for two weeks then 12% more and had horrible reaction. I cant go into a hospital but even if could would be scarred after what they have done getting me hooked on these things and now leaving me hanging on my own. Who knows what would happen to me if they had full control over me. I just want my life back and Im so scarrred that I cant find it. So many say you cant do it straight off of xanax, you have to be switched to valium as the best way..but I cant..where will I get them...they took my docs lisense for not keeping correct files as well as other things but all the other should lose it as well for not caring. They litterly slam the door in my face, they are to scarred to help I guess. Drugs are so bad in this small town we have been on 20/20 and dateline. PPl have signs hanging on the houses telling their families stories. I need my medician though, Im not a drug dealer, I have panic attacks. I will get sick without it but they wont help me. Do I write the papers? If I do you have to sign your name and in this small town word gets around and will start trouble for me im sure. Hard to belive im in the usa. Then again is beginning to sound more like the usa. Sorry so long, Just dont know what to do now.
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I have heard so much bad about xanax withdrawl. I have been taking 2mg for 3 years. I have heard how most cannot taper straight from xanax, they have to be switched to something else first. I have read how even a 6% cut causes bad withdrawls. I am writing this to ask if ANYONE has come off of xanax with few problems? Thanks
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> YMMV. Some people have a lot more trouble tapering than others. But anyway, switching to a long-acting benzo should help, and it's not that big of a deal -- the trick is finding the equivalent dose (equivalence charts give you a general idea but the exact equivalent dose varies from person to person). Tapering very slowly (like 10% per week) should also make it easier. Some people find that anticonvulsants (Neurontin, Depakote) or the MAOI Nardil can make it easier to decrease their dose of benzos (you should start taking these while still taking the benzo; Neurontin is the easiest to use).
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> -elizabeth
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