The Easier Taper Support Group

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Hi Begood, Gardie and OliveKitty,

 

(Sorry for not answering sooner, a lot of interruptions, work and visits yesterday).

 

OliveKitty thank you very much! 

 

Begood that’s a great advice.  I have already 1 and ½ extra packet of pills (leftovers from previous months) and I will try to keep some more extra pills, just in case.

 

Gardie I agree with you that my doctor might try not to scare me, but he knows that I had already experienced many symptoms during my cold turkey (from vertigo to tinnitus to blurry vision, just to name a few). As I have people that depend on me and also, I can’t afford to lose my job, he might think that this way I will not be scared (which I am already a little bit  ).

 

I am making my second 5% cut today, fingers crossed! The first either went well, or I was feeling too miserable from the flu to notice anything .

 

Wish you all to be healthy and happy!   

 

Blue

   

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"May All Have Peace and Healing This Holiday Season"

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"May All Have Peace and Healing This Holiday Season"

 

❤️ Merry Christmas begood! Happy Holidays to all! :smitten: 

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"May All Have Peace and Healing This Holiday Season"

 

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Merry Christmas Mary, Begood, Gardie and OliveKitty  :smitten:

 

Meeting you was a great gift for me! Thank you!!! 

 

I wish you all the good persons, things and feelings to come into your lives. Sending you tons of love!  :smitten:

 

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Merry Christmas to all   

 

Blue

 

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Merry Christmas Mary, Begood, Gardie and OliveKitty  :smitten:

 

Meeting you was a great gift for me! Thank you!!!  :heart: 

 

I wish you all the good persons, things and feelings to come into your lives. Sending you tons of love!  :smitten:

 

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Merry Christmas to all   

 

Blue

Back atcha, have a nice day. 🎅🎄🤶 Peace and Healing.

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Merry Christmas Mary, Begood, Gardie and OliveKitty  :smitten:

 

Meeting you was a great gift for me! Thank you!!! 

 

I wish you all the good persons, things and feelings to come into your lives. Sending you tons of love!  :smitten:

 

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Merry Christmas to all   

 

Blue

 

Awwwww 

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Wishing all my buddies a peaceful and happy Christmas Day.

 

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Wishing all my buddies a peaceful and happy Christmas Day.

 

To you also...a good way to start the new year...off of Benzo's 🎅🎄🤶 Peace and Healing.

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Merry Christmas to this sweet group! I hope you all get some relief today ⛄️🎄

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Merry Christmas to this sweet group! I hope you all get some relief today ⛄️🎄

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How everybody is doing?

 

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Begood finally I just finished reading your plog. Congatulations again for your freedom!!! http://justclickit.ru/smiles/image/hearts/hearts%20(22).gif

 

I noticed that during your journey, you mentioned many times that ginger helped with your tinitus. May I please ask for a little more info about this, when you have the time?

 

Blue

p.s. Even though I still don't know how to navigate, correctly use the forum, I found your blog and it is great reading it too!

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Merry Christmas to this sweet group! I hope you all get some relief today ⛄️🎄

http://justclickit.ru/smiles/image/hearts/hearts%20(324).gif

 

How everybody is doing?

 

Struggle bus here today.  I'm in a wave... and have had several waves over the last couple months.  Feeling worse as I get lower, even after slowing my pace... trying to stay hopeful that I can be off of this stuff within a year.

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Merry Christmas to this sweet group! I hope you all get some relief today ⛄️🎄

http://justclickit.ru/smiles/image/hearts/hearts%20(324).gif

 

How everybody is doing?

 

Struggle bus here today.  I'm in a wave... and have had several waves over the last couple months.  Feeling worse as I get lower, even after slowing my pace... trying to stay hopeful that I can be off of this stuff within a year.

 

Candice I am so sorry to hear that you are in a wave! I hope it will pass soon! I see from your signature that you have gone a long way and you have acomplished so much! You have all the reasons to be hopeful that you will be off soon. I will be thinking about you and I will wait that soon you will have a huge beautiful window.  :smitten:

 

Blue

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Merry Christmas to this sweet group! I hope you all get some relief today ⛄️🎄

A good Holiday for you too, enjoy each second, you deserve it. Peace and Healing.

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Merry Christmas to this sweet group! I hope you all get some relief today ⛄️🎄

http://justclickit.ru/smiles/image/hearts/hearts%20(324).gif

 

How everybody is doing?

 

Struggle bus here today.  I'm in a wave... and have had several waves over the last couple months.  Feeling worse as I get lower, even after slowing my pace... trying to stay hopeful that I can be off of this stuff within a year.

I am so sorry Candance, if you are slowing your pace, maybe you need to lessen the amt you are tapering...remember the lower you go the higher the pecentage you are tapering. Just a thought. I had to slow down several times throughout my taper because of the larger fractions. Stay Strong. Peace and Healing.

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Begood finally I just finished reading your plog. Congatulations again for your freedom!!! http://justclickit.ru/smiles/image/hearts/hearts%20(22).gif

 

I noticed that during your journey, you mentioned many times that ginger helped with your tinitus. May I please ask for a little more info about this, when you have the time?

 

Blue

p.s. Even though I still don't know how to navigate, correctly use the forum, I found your blog and it is great reading it too!

You brave girl you reading my plog and blog. Thanks for reading. I hardly have tinitinus only if I am really tired, and I have a ear disease. I take 2 Ginger Root caps 540mg from Swanson per day and over time it has really helped it, in fact as I said before almost gone. It is natural and I used to use ginger spice in my oats each morning, but stopped eating oats and still have had good results. I buy it from this place and very reasonable. Peace and Healing.

 

https://www.swansonvitamins.com/?DFA=1&UTM_Medium=PaidSearch&UTM_Source=GOOGLE&UTM_Campaign=SWAN_National_Gen_Search_Branded_Exact_Branded+General+Vitamins+General+-+Websites&UTM_Content=swanson+com&SourceCode=INTL1324&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjKDh_cX52QIVjS-BCh0Rpg7YEAAYASAAEgLWdvD_BwE

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Merry Christmas to this sweet group! I hope you all get some relief today ⛄️🎄

http://justclickit.ru/smiles/image/hearts/hearts%20(324).gif

 

How everybody is doing?

 

Struggle bus here today.  I'm in a wave... and have had several waves over the last couple months.  Feeling worse as I get lower, even after slowing my pace... trying to stay hopeful that I can be off of this stuff within a year.

 

I'm sorry you've hit a rough patch. BG is correct, you may need to refigure your percents and make smaller cuts. I did that every month. But I got to a point when I was very low that I was able to go back to bigger cuts. Things may get better for you, too, below 1 mg. But, no matter what, every day you are one day closer to freedom.

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Begood finally I just finished reading your plog. Congatulations again for your freedom!!! http://justclickit.ru/smiles/image/hearts/hearts%20(22).gif

 

I noticed that during your journey, you mentioned many times that ginger helped with your tinitus. May I please ask for a little more info about this, when you have the time?

 

Blue

p.s. Even though I still don't know how to navigate, correctly use the forum, I found your blog and it is great reading it too!

You brave girl you reading my plog and blog. Thanks for reading. I hardly have tinitinus only if I am really tired, and I have a ear disease. I take 2 Ginger Root caps 540mg from Swanson per day and over time it has really helped it, in fact as I said before almost gone. It is natural and I used to use ginger spice in my oats each morning, but stopped eating oats and still have had good results. I buy it from this place and very reasonable. Peace and Healing.

 

https://www.swansonvitamins.com/?DFA=1&UTM_Medium=PaidSearch&UTM_Source=GOOGLE&UTM_Campaign=SWAN_National_Gen_Search_Branded_Exact_Branded+General+Vitamins+General+-+Websites&UTM_Content=swanson+com&SourceCode=INTL1324&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjKDh_cX52QIVjS-BCh0Rpg7YEAAYASAAEgLWdvD_BwE

 

Thank you very much!  :smitten:

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Thank you all for your words of support and advice    Thank goodness we have each other to turn to in times where it’s hard.

 

I did the math and I’m at 9.2% monthly reduction rate. That’s below 10% and for me that’s been my sweet spot. If this wave persists or if I can’t keep functioning enough to continue working and being present for my kids, I’ll slow it down even more. And, I think if it gets unbearable after that, I’ll take a long hold.  It’s so hard to know what to do sometimes. I was looking back on my notes and saw I had a window day on Christmas. And other window days throughout the past two hairy months. My heart is telling me I need to keep going.

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Thank you all for your words of support and advice    Thank goodness we have each other to turn to in times where it’s hard.

 

I did the math and I’m at 9.2% monthly reduction rate. That’s below 10% and for me that’s been my sweet spot. If this wave persists or if I can’t keep functioning enough to continue working and being present for my kids, I’ll slow it down even more. And, I think if it gets unbearable after that, I’ll take a long hold.  It’s so hard to know what to do sometimes. I was looking back on my notes and saw I had a window day on Christmas. And other window days throughout the past two hairy months. My heart is telling me I need to keep going.

 

It's good that you take notes. Im glad you can see you've had windows. Knowing those windows are there always kept me going.

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Thank you all for your words of support and advice    Thank goodness we have each other to turn to in times where it’s hard.

 

I did the math and I’m at 9.2% monthly reduction rate. That’s below 10% and for me that’s been my sweet spot. If this wave persists or if I can’t keep functioning enough to continue working and being present for my kids, I’ll slow it down even more. And, I think if it gets unbearable after that, I’ll take a long hold.  It’s so hard to know what to do sometimes. I was looking back on my notes and saw I had a window day on Christmas. And other window days throughout the past two hairy months. My heart is telling me I need to keep going.

I do not know how to explain it Candance, but you are probably doing much more than 9.2% a month, but if you are feeling OK go for it...just be careful, benzo's are sneaky and pile up on you.

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Thank you all for your words of support and advice    Thank goodness we have each other to turn to in times where it’s hard.

 

I did the math and I’m at 9.2% monthly reduction rate. That’s below 10% and for me that’s been my sweet spot. If this wave persists or if I can’t keep functioning enough to continue working and being present for my kids, I’ll slow it down even more. And, I think if it gets unbearable after that, I’ll take a long hold.  It’s so hard to know what to do sometimes. I was looking back on my notes and saw I had a window day on Christmas. And other window days throughout the past two hairy months. My heart is telling me I need to keep going.

I do not know how to explain it Candance, but you are probably doing much more than 9.2% a month, but if you are feeling OK go for it...just be careful, benzo's are sneaky and pile up on you.

 

If you could explain it, it would be helpful.    My math is I’m reducing roughly .20 mg per month, and I’m at 2.17 my right now.  So, .2/2.17= .0922 = 9.2%. Am I doing this math incorrectly?

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Thank you all for your words of support and advice    Thank goodness we have each other to turn to in times where it’s hard.

 

I did the math and I’m at 9.2% monthly reduction rate. That’s below 10% and for me that’s been my sweet spot. If this wave persists or if I can’t keep functioning enough to continue working and being present for my kids, I’ll slow it down even more. And, I think if it gets unbearable after that, I’ll take a long hold.  It’s so hard to know what to do sometimes. I was looking back on my notes and saw I had a window day on Christmas. And other window days throughout the past two hairy months. My heart is telling me I need to keep going.

I do not know how to explain it Candance, but you are probably doing much more than 9.2% a month, but if you are feeling OK go for it...just be careful, benzo's are sneaky and pile up on you.

 

If you could explain it, it would be helpful.    My math is I’m reducing roughly .20 mg per month, and I’m at 2.17 my right now.  So, .2/2.17= .0922 = 9.2%. Am I doing this math incorrectly?

I was told the lower you go the larger the cut will be.I am sorry I am terrible with math. Hopefully someone will chime in.

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Thank you all for your words of support and advice    Thank goodness we have each other to turn to in times where it’s hard.

 

I did the math and I’m at 9.2% monthly reduction rate. That’s below 10% and for me that’s been my sweet spot. If this wave persists or if I can’t keep functioning enough to continue working and being present for my kids, I’ll slow it down even more. And, I think if it gets unbearable after that, I’ll take a long hold.  It’s so hard to know what to do sometimes. I was looking back on my notes and saw I had a window day on Christmas. And other window days throughout the past two hairy months. My heart is telling me I need to keep going.

I do not know how to explain it Candance, but you are probably doing much more than 9.2% a month, but if you are feeling OK go for it...just be careful, benzo's are sneaky and pile up on you.

 

If you could explain it, it would be helpful.    My math is I’m reducing roughly .20 mg per month, and I’m at 2.17 my right now.  So, .2/2.17= .0922 = 9.2%. Am I doing this math incorrectly?

 

To make 10% you just move the decimal place over. So you can eyeball it and see you're at just under 10%.