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Offlinec1dh3d
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Xanax withdrawl hell, halfway til done
    #18966474 - 10/12/13 12:03 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

About 2.5 years ago now, I started taking xanax to substitute binge drinking nightly to counter my depression and anxiety. I'd get so drunk every night I was either calling in to work the next day, or going into work drunk every day, because I hated my fucking life.

Then I found Xanax. It knocked me out cold for 12 hours the first 1mg I took, but after adjusting doses, it put me in a nice numb place I wanted to be, without nodding off or falling over drunk.

So about 3 months ago I put my foot down to get off this shit. Over 3 years of use my dosage did not exceed 3mg per day, but it has stayed that way for 2 years, and I decided I'm going to take it down .5mg per month (roughly).

At the 2.5mg/day dosage I felt of course extremely irritable, but for the most part normal. A month ago when I took it down to 2mg per day I have since constantly felt like I have the flu, and have not gotten more than 4 hours of sleep a night. Last weekend I took it down to 1.5mg per day, and it is fucking killing me.

This last drop and dose has now induced a blitz of nightmares, I don't fall asleep until about 4 hours before I work, and I think I wake up an hour before my alarm goes off sweating / panicking about the lack of sleep / xanax. I then continue nightmaring my way until the alarm clock screams me awake, and I feel like the hour prior was just a dream, because I'm so glad not to be in that nightmare anymore. I've been considering just trashing my room in these fits so I know whether it's a dream or not when I finally 'wake up'.

I've made some great progress in my line of work, and I have directors and hiring managers attention for the field I'm in, but I can't step up to the plate to take a shot at it because I can't hardly complete a sentence to save my life.

I can study fine when I'm in my own zone, but my brain just trips right over itself when trying to process anything real time. I can't hardly focus on driving, I can hardly even complete a sentence smoothly even though I have it perfectly spelled out in my head.

I don't have anyone to confide in, and it's fucking killing me, and it's just fucking killing me now.

Fuck me man. Fuuuck.


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Re: Xanax withdrawl hell, halfway til done [Re: c1dh3d]
    #18966553 - 10/12/13 12:29 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

sucks that xanax is giving you physical WD's. You sound like me trying to ween myself off heroin lol


My ex wife and I steady took 10-15mg per day for 4 years (First year was prob only 5mg a day) and I just cold turkey'd them with no side effects. A normal day for my ex wife would've been about 30mg. yeah 15 bars a day. Wasn't rare to see her taking 10 at a time some days. I was getting them for about .30$ per mg and we had 1000's of 1mg tabs lmao, so it was super cheap and super available.

She was a bitch for a week after going cold turkey but it past lmao


Honestly if the WD's are THAT bad, just go cold turkey and get it over with. Seriously what you're describing sounds like a mild case of heroin dope sick, and if its that bad already it cant get much worse.

Just go cold turkey and you'll be over the worst of it in 2 or 3 days max


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Re: Xanax withdrawl hell, halfway til done [Re: Chuckfinely]
    #18967148 - 10/12/13 04:43 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

15 bars a day and she got over it in a week??? Back during my xanax phase I was eating probably 2 to 3 bars a day for about 3-4 months straight and when I went cold turkey it was hellish for at least 3 weeks. Felt like my chest was going to explode and my anxiety was through the fucking roof.

I can't even fathom a 15 bar per day habit. That's mind blowing.


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Re: Xanax withdrawl hell, halfway til done [Re: Niffla]
    #18967379 - 10/12/13 07:07 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I take Klonopin; 2 mg a day; and I may eventually ask for an increase.

The one thing that I do to keep my prescribed habit under control is to not take it some days. On the weekends when I am working or I am chilling alone I usually take half or none.

I only need them when I am functioning in public on a deep level. Such as school or dating. No problems working, walking, eating out, etc..


I would wean off man. Even though it's just 3 mg it is better to wean off. At least that is what my doctor says.


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Re: Xanax withdrawl hell, halfway til done [Re: c1dh3d]
    #18967518 - 10/12/13 08:40 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah weaning off is your best bet imo. I used to take heavy doses of xanax daily and it helped tremendously until I ran out of xanax lol. At that point, you've just got to let go. It's going to bring you down in the long run man, get out of the cycle while you can.


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Re: Xanax withdrawl hell, halfway til done [Re: ConfettiHead]
    #18968228 - 10/12/13 01:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I'm supposed to be on 4 mg of Klonopin per day but I'm down to my last two 2 mg pills and I don't get a refill until the 21st.  It really isn't that big of deal for me.

I supplement with a ton of valerian, kava, and passion flower when I'm out and a tincture called 'anxiety soother.'  You should give it a try sometime and see if those can replace that calming 'feeling' of benzos.  Works for me.


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Re: Xanax withdrawl hell, halfway til done [Re: FishOilTheKid]
    #18968580 - 10/12/13 02:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Can you link to the recipe you use that helps?

I woke up today, and my head feels like its on fire on the inside : /

I didn't run out of money or resources, just missed a dose a hand full of times and it's just like living hell if you don't have a dose semi quickly. I cut a year long Norcos habit almost over night about a year back, so I'm not stranger to withdrawals  but god damn.


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Re: Xanax withdrawl hell, halfway til done [Re: c1dh3d]
    #18969073 - 10/12/13 04:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I went through seizures in my Xanax withdrawal but I had been taking 3-4mg a day for quite some time.

Stay strong OP! I felt like I was in a foggy daze for about a month after I quit.

Good luck.


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Re: Xanax withdrawl hell, halfway til done [Re: c1dh3d]
    #18969095 - 10/12/13 05:00 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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c1dh3d said:
Can you link to the recipe you use that helps?

I woke up today, and my head feels like its on fire on the inside : /

I didn't run out of money or resources, just missed a dose a hand full of times and it's just like living hell if you don't have a dose semi quickly. I cut a year long Norcos habit almost over night about a year back, so I'm not stranger to withdrawals  but god damn.





Like I said diff for every person lol. You kicked norco's in one night but 1 single norco is what made me relapse and back on heroin.

Was clean for 3 or 4 months, had a headache/toothache for like a week straight so i figured "hey, if im used to dope then this little vico wont even get me high..". Fast forward 20 minutes after taking it and im higher than hell melting into my bed and ordering up 1.5g of dope :thumbdown:

Then again I can just take a 1mg xanax whenever I get too shaky or  feel like im about to have a seizure and then have no desire for another until I need it :shrug:


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