Posted by KaraS on July 31, 2005, at 17:59:55
In reply to Re: KaraS -- how are you doing? » KaraS, posted by ed_uk on July 31, 2005, at 6:59:41
> >I'm not sure if Xanax kicks in faster. Maybe Ed would know.
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> Xanax and Valium usually kick in most quickly. Oxazepam (Serax) seems to take several hours to kick in.
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> ~Ed x
Also good to know. Think I'll stay away from Serax.Now I have a couple of other questions for you. I read on the board about a couple of people withdrawing from Klonopin after several years on it. They each cut their 1 mg. pills in half for that day and the only complaint they both had was fatigue. When I was withdrawing from Ativan, if I had cut down by that much initially, I would have had a lot of symptoms: nausea, dizziness, supersensitivity to light, sound and touch etc. It felt like I'd just stuck my hand in an electric socket. It was intolerable. I had to reduce much more slowly than those two posters described. My questions to you are whether Klonopin is different enough from other benzos to have totally different withdrawal effects and whether people are usually able to get off of it faster than they might from other benzos.
K
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