After weeks of dedication -.-

Finally tapered down to 1 bar a day for a week straight, i think its safe to say i can go cold turkey? :D mhmm or should i taper to half a bar a day now for a week than cold turkey? :)


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[50 Points] Pinga1234:

slower better


[39 Points] None:

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[10 Points] flawdaessay:

Actually my bars are dosed at 3mg but you guys are right, ima wait till i get to quarter bars a day


[6 Points] box672:

I'd switch to valium if I was you. Go down to half a 2mg valium then go cold turkey.

Have you tried asking over r/benzodiazepines ?


[2 Points] None:

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[6 Points] bananawrangler69:

Most people who end up at 2mg a day are in for some serious withdrawals. That being said I don't think it's safe to go cold turkey. Taper down to at least .5mg before discontinuing use. Trust me, I've done this before and quitting cold turkey off 2mg will not be fun, as well as life threatening.


[4 Points] None:

would highly recommend valium to taper from 1 bar a day. or if you've ever tried kava, good stuff too


[5 Points] litsolutions:

You tapered down to 1 bar a day which is still 4mg so no, do not go cold turkey.

Taper yourself down to a half and then after a half go to a quarter and then taper yourself off a quarter piece.


[3 Points] gold_poo_nyc:

Bruh you can't just jump off 3mg/day. You absolutely need to do more than 1 week increments halving your dose.

So do another week at 3. 2 weeks at 1.5, 2 weeks at .75, 2 weeks at .5 and 2 weeks at .25.

AND EVEN STILL YOURE GOING TO HAVE WITHDRAW AND ITS NOT FUCKING FUN.

Make sure you melatonin or a non habit forming sleep aid. As sleep is next to impossible.

Being a junkie ain't lit.


[2 Points] ILIKEDRUGSTUFF:

Do like a few days of 3/4, few days of half, then down to a quarter or nothing


[2 Points] Darknet_Retard:

Friend of mine stopped a 1 bar a day habit cold turkey and had seizures two separate times within a week. His bars were also 3mg. I'd do half a bar for a week and then a quarter bar for a week which is a total of 5.25 bars. Flush or get rid of the rest at least temporarily, and separate your doses into days like women do with birth control. This is the only sure fire way I can think of to make sure you follow through with getting off this habit.


[1 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

I would honestly taper down until you get to .25mg a day for a full month before trying to quit altogether. As other people here have already said, slower is better. Benzo withdrawals can kill, so you really don't want to mess around and risk something like that unless you know you can get professional care right away.

Give it another two weeks at a full bar, then try and drop it down to a half bar, so 1mg, for a month or so. If that's too much of a drop for your system to handle, go with 1.5mg/day until you can go a full five days without starting to withdraw during the day; then drop to 1mg. Keep dropping it down by half of the current dose and upping by a quarter as necessary for the next two months or so until you get to a stable .25mg per day for three to four weeks. Once you get to that point, try and skip a day or two completely. If you can make it through a full week without going into DT's, you're out of the woods as far as the physical chemical addiction and potential for withdrawal goes and it should then be safe to stop entirely.

Good luck and congratulations on your future sobriety, OP! I hope this helps :)


[1 Points] Udaypbuh:

Go the doctors and tell him your situation. He should at least give you some anti-seizure medication, k-pins if your lucky. Tapering off 3 mg of Xanax a day shouldn't take you any longer then 2 weeks. If you drag it out any longer then your running the risk of repeating the cycle over and over again.


[1 Points] Lucid_Enemy:

Just curious where were you at before the taper like what was your dosage? Congrats man in proud of you! Resist the urge to get back to that state i know that feeling all too well every time you grab that bottle "just to reward" yourself and then boom your shooting a gram a day


[1 Points] Fuckmepayyou1:

Thanks figured it out as I was reading


[1 Points] ScoopDat:

I've rarely seen a cure to an addiction. Aside from its trade for another one. Bravo if you manage to fully stop and not have other crutches.


[1 Points] Spicy_Tripp:

TAPER! PLEASE TAPER! I am so extremely happy for you. I finally got away from my Xanax dependency but tried cold turkey first and the seizures started small in my brain and ended up being grand mal and putting me in the hospital nearly dead. Given, this was several years of doctor produced dependency but do 3/4 for a few days, half for a few days, quarter for a few days, then try to quit. Get yourself a couple valium or klonopin for when you're COMPLETELY off just in case you still have WD for a few days, they are longer lasting and will take away the WD symptoms without causing a new addiction. GOOD LUCK AND CONGRATS!!!!!!! I am so happy when I see people get away from that poison. I feel like I skipped years of my life when I was on Xanax, going one day to the next in auto pilot forgetting basic shit. That shit is a damn poisonous band-aid over a killer infection and once that band-aid is gone you're going to feel amazing.


[1 Points] Atari_Orange:

Good job and good luck with the rest of your taper :)


[1 Points] Poptart318:

Kratom


[1 Points] None:

Why don't you use Valium to finish your tapper? I would tapper down from 10mg of Valium (= 1mg Xanax) to as low as you can go before going cold turkey


[1 Points] jumtrum:

Louis C.K., a very funny comedian once said that he never does drugs because when he does do them, they feel amazing. He said something like "getting hooked on a drug is like eating toast for breakfast, you don't want to do drugs everyday because it sucks."

My advice: don't quit cold turkey, just slowly lower your intake and then stop when it's safe to. Like getting off of an escalator, so to speak.

By the way it should be common knowledge by now but I'll tell you anyway: almost never doing them and then doing them makes it feel amazing.


[1 Points] Gravityflexo:

Dude, one bar is still an incredibly large dose to jump from, that's why they are scored to break into pieces. Go down to .25 at least and even then it's gonna be rough.


[1 Points] speedfleek:

You don't want to hop off at 3mg


[-1 Points] DaRealDonaldTrump:

Is it really cold turkey if you are tapering off?