Posted by yxibow on September 13, 2006, at 22:52:56
In reply to Re: BENZO Preferences? one easier to WD????, posted by qbsbrown on September 13, 2006, at 16:22:46
> Could you cite that conversion talbe for me, or send a link please.
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> I'm at a loss of what to do. it seems the longer acting benzos give me more depression and irritability, but seem like valium is the easiest to come off of, right?
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> BrianCertainly
http://www.dr-bob.org/tips/bzd.html
The first one is quoted elsewhere on the net and my layman's sense, sensed it was pretty much on the dot. As they say, your miles may vary.
Longer acting benzodiazepines (Valium here you mention specifically) are easier to come off of, but all if you have become habituated are a long process (I know personally, I am probably somewhat habituated but there is a special evidence-based reason in my case why I have a high dosage. Nonetheless a smaller one is always better.)Some will quote the "Ashton" (its not actually) her site -- I dont want to get into a PBC about it as I find the nonlinearity and oddness of withdrawal methods there not to what I consider complete scientific standards.
But anyhow, yes, if you have become very habituated it is a long process. One thing to remember though, as long as you don't have something rare like end stage liver disease, is that there is always another day, and being among the safest of psychiatric medications, it will still be there tomorrow.
So if you feel you're going too fast, just hold it steady for another day or week. Then start going down. You can practice other tricks like alternating days when you remove a bit and return a bit the next day, as well. That sometimes works too. You'll get there. Just never cold turkey.
And with Valium, you have the luxury, if there is such a word of doing all these tricks because the half life in your body, specifically only unto you, is bound to be some value above 24 hours. The problems people get into is long use of things like Xanax, because it is sometimes taken 4x a day with a half life as little as 4-6 hours in most people. Then there's the nightmare of shaving off quantities of 4 pills. People have to eventually crush entire tablets at the end, dunk them in orange juice or something and drink a specified milliliter, per day. So you're in a much better place to reduce to what you need to.
-- tidings
Jay
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