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Re: Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos? [Re: Kryptos] 1
#28589261 - 12/19/23 02:22 AM (1 month, 9 days ago) |
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Yes, i know the withdrawals are HORRIBLE and can cause seizures, which I had before when I got locked up.
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Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos?
#28589240 - 12/19/23 01:39 AM (1 month, 9 days ago) |
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Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos? I've been addicted to xanax for almost 3 years now. I am on a high dose, I take 7 REAL 2mg bars a day. I'm getting really tired of this addiction.. very tired. If anyone has used shrooms as a tool to help you get off of benzos please let me know! Any advice would help. Thank you
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Re: Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos? [Re: Jrey16]
#28589244 - 12/19/23 01:58 AM (1 month, 9 days ago) |
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No. Do not do this. Severe benzo (and alcohol) withdrawal happens in three stages: seizure, coma, death.
You need actual medical help to get off benzos.
Make an appointment with a doctor. This is not a joke. Cold turkey quitting benzos will kill your ass, and you will not go gently.
This is why liquor stores stayed open as "essential businesses" during covid. Alcohol and benzo withdrawals, specifically, kill. They both act on your GABA system, which controls brain neuron activation. Suddenly taking away that CNS depression of the GABA system triggers cascading over activation of various neurons. Which is what a seizure is. Then your neurons burn out. Which is what a coma is. And when enough of them burn out, your brain shuts down permanently.
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Re: Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos? [Re: Kryptos]
#28589258 - 12/19/23 02:20 AM (1 month, 9 days ago) |
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I've been slowly weaning off actually. Sorry didn't say to many details. I meant did anybody ever use shrooms as a tool to get off of benzos? Like did anyone ever slowly wean off and take microdoses of shrooms and trip every once in a while to make it easier to wean off of benzos. I am in the Philippines and out here they don't take addiction lightly so I can't get any help out here.
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Re: Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos? [Re: Jrey16]
#28589275 - 12/19/23 02:33 AM (1 month, 9 days ago) |
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If you're doing it according to most medical guidelines, and you're at 14mg Xanax per day, then you're looking at roughly a two year long taper process, maybe even longer. You will have ongoing headaches, nausea, gastrointestinal issues (lots of diarrhea) and general muscle spasms.
Shrooms won't really help you much (medically) with any of that.
Might make ya feel better, though? I don't really use shrooms for a purpose, if I use shrooms it's because it feels like a shroomy day.
I'm not an addiction specialist, nor am I your doctor, but cutting your daily dose by 5% and then maintaining until the withdrawal subsides (a month or two per cut) should work. If I was you, I'd still seek legit medical attention if you can.
Edit: maybe an optimistic schedule would be to reduce your dose by 0.5mg per month. You should be clean in a bit over two years.
Edited by Kryptos (12/19/23 02:47 AM)
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Re: Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos? [Re: Kryptos]
#28597259 - 12/25/23 12:46 AM (1 month, 3 days ago) |
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i've been chemically detoxed from benzos before. they give you 30 mg of valium three times a day at first.
you should know that there's no functional use to taking that much xanax. it only has so much affect in toto.
about 6mg a day is as much as one could get any value from. oher than that and it just adds negatively to the state of mind. by negatively i mean one feels the xanax less and less. it eats itself. it sounds like you have a compulsive personality. consider going to a shrink. tell them your issues. a decent shrink won't judge but will help you.
in that case maybe they give you something to help with ocd behaviour. am i being quick to judge? it's no moral judgement, bro.
i mention this next not so much to convert you to buddhism but because repetitive chanting is autohypnotic and calming and a natural way to calm the mind without really needing to think
in any case, you willl have to learn to find peace without meds. meditation. try chanting to white tara

Oṃ Tara Tuttara Tura Mama Ayu Punya Jana Pushtime Kuru Soha
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Re: Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos? [Re: eve69]
#28598318 - 12/26/23 07:07 AM (1 month, 2 days ago) |
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Thank you for the responses.
I live in the Philippines where being an "addict" is one of the WORST things you can be. Tens of thousands of people have been killed out here for being an "addict" or a "pusher" due to the last president's "war on drugs". And millions locked up in inhumane conditions. People were even getting KILLED for weed. President Duterte once said, "Hitler killed 3 million Jews. There are 3 million addicts in the Philippines. We will kill them all". And that's just one of his sick quotes.
I tried getting help here before and they locked up me up in a psych ward (that's how it is out here for some reason, they lock up addicts in psych wards). And remember, this is the Philippines.. the psych wards out here are very inhumane. I remember the nurses and even a doctor were bashing all of the addicts including me, saying "This is what we deserve for being addicts".They ended up drug testing me and I was positive for benzos, weed, and meth.. and being involved with meth out here is considered REALLY bad.. worst thing you could do. I'm not even a meth user, I just happened to use it a couple days before. So after being positive for meth they ended up forcefully locking me up by injecting me and I woke in a lock-up "rehab" which was the worst experience in my life. It was no "rehab". If you look up the definition of a concentration camp, that "rehab" was a freaking concentration camp!! I had NO communication with the outside world too whatsoever. Not even my parents. That was the most traumatizing event that had ever happened to me and I'm still very traumatized and paranoid today. And back then, I wasn't even doing as bad as I was now when it comes to addiction. My addiction is A LOT worse now. I wish I never would of got "help" out here.
Yes, I know I'm taking WAY TOO MUCH benzos. I take that much to just feel "normal" and to not withdrawal. I don't get high off of it anymore. Crazy thing is I used to take A LOT more, you wouldn't believe it.. I basically have a non-stop supply for benzos. I'm still considered being on a very very high dose at the moment. Even when I try cutting down a little I feel the difference. So going down to only 6mg a day from 12.5mg a day (I weaned down to 12.5g now!) I won't be able to do. I had seizures before and I think I'll get seizures from going down that low so quick. Xanax addiction is HELL.
Seeking "help" here from "professionals" I would NEVER do again. So I'm just planning on weaning off slowly, microdosing and tripping once a week. Which actually been helping me.. I've already went down 1.5mg since I last posted. And that's big to me.
I am also, or used to be, very spiritually inclined. But ever since I got back on benzos all of that basically vanished. But I'm trying to get back into it and I feel the shrooms is really helping.
When I trip, I sometimes see the spirit of the shrooms showing me that we will kill this xanax addiction. I remember during this one trip it showed me a bunch of alien like weapons we're gonna use to kill xanax, lol.
But anyways, I promised my mom I'll be off of benzos by next year. Wish me luck. I'm also truly blessed I have a girlfriend who I have been with for years and she always stuck by my side no matter what happened, and she is here for me to help me wean off this evil drug. If you look up the root word of "pharmaceutical", it comes from "being under a spell", "poisonous potion", etc. And that's how I literally feel on these damn benzos. I feel like I'm under some type of spell and I'm literally poisoning my body every few hours when I redose.
Edited by Jrey16 (12/26/23 07:08 AM)
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Re: Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos? [Re: eve69]
#28598319 - 12/26/23 07:09 AM (1 month, 2 days ago) |
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I am diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and PTSD btw.
Edited by Jrey16 (12/26/23 07:10 AM)
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Re: Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos? [Re: Jrey16]
#28598324 - 12/26/23 07:14 AM (1 month, 2 days ago) |
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Consider an online course Online doctor, sud counselor
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Re: Has anybody used shrooms to get off of benzos? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#28611246 - 01/06/24 05:16 AM (22 days, 7 hours ago) |
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I've successfully cut down from 4mg clonazepam /klonopin before, to 1.1mg. I took cbd multiple times a day to avoid a risk of seizure. I think I spent about a month or more for every 0.5mg cut in dosage.
I am retapering, I would suggest you supplement with cbd, take it every four hours, take your larger Xanax dose before bed so it lasts into the night, lowering a risk of seizure. Then just monitor for side effects
I used LSD before to taper rapidly from 4mg klonopin to 0.67mg in a week. I got down to that dose, but I would not advise this. I nearly had a very serious seizure
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