How long does acute usually last?

[[Sl...]]

I will be six weeks benzo free tomorrow. I don't think I am there yet.

[[do...]]

Mine was about 10 days. Hang in there...

[[Ke...]]

I had my last dose on the same day as you and started feeling a lot better on the 30th of December. So I would say I'm out of acute. You're probably not fare behind

[[An...]]

Mine lasted a little over 6 weeks as well. I'm still in the stage where half the time, I feel almost normal. The other half, ugh.

[Guest [rh...]]

It was 10 weeks for me, but Christmas/New Year stress brought on a wave.

[[ja...]]

Is subjective: it also depends on what you mean by acute or being sick.

 

There are those who bear better and who is not.

 

Personally a few days, but never very bad ...

[[Co...]]

It was 4 months for me. Not at 14.5 months out I'm having acute again but worse! I'm hoping it's only gonna be 4 months again lol.

[Guest [Lu...]]

Usually 6 weeks - 3 months. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

 

(Last time for me it was 3 months)

[[be...]]

Mine lasted about 5 weeks. With the absolute worst being the first 21 days.

[[Ba...]]

I don't remember  

[[Ec...]]

Mine lasted approx 2months with the first month being the worst.

[[be...]]

About three months for me.

[[Sl...]]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm not sure I am in acute anymore. I only feel that way when the symptoms are bad, but I am having good days here and there. Seems like everyday it is something else and some things are coming back that I had before taking the benzo. Like anxiety and shaking when trying to fall asleep. I wish this one would move on. Almost feels like a low blood sugar drop but when I get fully awake, it goes away. I guess we will all keep plugging along.

[[...]]

I'm 8 weeks and 4 days off. Some days are good. But it's weird, when I first got off it, that first week, I felt great. Almost normal.

 

Of course , I didn't trust it would last, and since then it's been good days and some bad, but last night was really bad. It was the start of a new month and I got hit with the panic and fear and weird thoughts too, all day.Stressed too.Also felt a weird 'craving' like inter-dose withdrawal craving? I only got that back during my taper when I would drop a dose. I would get that feeling of 'missing' the dose. It would last 4 days or so,,then fade.

 

But out of the blue 2 months after my jump, I got that feeling again.

 

It was scary.

 

I guess this is all 'acute'..I don't know.

 

I tapered VERY slow and long so as to ease my life when finally off it.

 

I didn't jump at .0625..I cut to .0312..and held that for 3 weeks, then cut to half of that, even, to .0150! I held that for 3 weeks..

 

I really dragged it out AND I was sick all the time, everyday.

 

I actually felt better when I finally did jump.

 

But now , 2 months in,I feel blah not so hot..

 

I guess this is acute still..

 

When will it end???

[Guest [Or...]]

My opinion on when acute ends is when it stops being so scary and you get a but if your life back. Even though I'm probably out of acute, being that I can sleep and no longer vomit, I would still say I'm in acute (Even though I have good windows) because my symptoms are still rather severe and persistent.

[[Se...]]

It's weird... it seems to be different for everyone.  Looking at the period occurring directly upon or after the last dose, my acute lasted approx. 2.5 mos.

 

Now, six months out, I feel very much in an acute-like phase once again, with some earlier symptoms gone, but new symptoms added to the sh*t-bag of persistent symptoms.

 

None of this experience is definitive.  Such a mystery.