Posted by yxibow on November 30, 2007, at 5:30:47 [reposted on November 30, 2007, at 22:39:16 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Stopping Benzodiazepines - Please Help, posted by Sigismund on November 30, 2007, at 1:03:44
> > Most importantly, you must build up an emergency supply of both drugs (clonazepam and oxazepam) in case you need to take a full dose for a while. Very important.
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> >If you tell your p-doc that you're tapering, you won't get a full prescription ever. As other posters have said, always fill a full prescription.
>If you have a reasonable psychiatrist, he'll keep his license, write your prescriptions legally and if the two of you notice signs of overwithdrawal, a new prescription with different directions can be written and faxed into (C-IV) just about every pharmacy around. There's no need even though I have that temptation, to have tons of moldering generic prescriptions around, unless you have a sadist for a doctor in which case I'm not sure why one would see one.
It doesn't take 30 weeks at your dose. I would say about 10% per week, depending on how long you've been on it and how you can stand it. As you get down lower, you may have to slow this level of taper. Propranolol, clonidine, Neurontin and other tricks can be used to temporarily substitute.The one thing you obviously don't want to do is dump it (any benzodiazepine) out the window. I had a not so nice doctor and I have permanent spinal and scalp muscle effects 10 years later. This isn't to scare you, proper clinically proven tapers work and are effective and one can choose to go by the "Ashton" method but it is not particularily scientifically accurate in my opinion.
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