Question about Kindling, Please Chime In?

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The Background:

So I am about to finish the Valium dosage for crossing over Temazepam. I used a modified Ashton method since I was only given 5mg pills to work with. I crossed over completely from 30mg of Temazepam at night to Valium. It took a long time but I'm getting ready to taper my next and last Benzodiazepine, Klonopin. Considering that the Ashton Method made it possible for me to survive the Temazepam taper I am planning to use the same method for Klonopin.

 

The question: I plan on starting the Klonopin crossover as soon as I finish tapering the last of the Valium from the temazepam equivalent. The question is will crossing over trigger Kindling since I am basically starting on a Valium dosage again even though it is replacing a Klonopin dosage?

 

Does anyone have any expertise in this area?

 

The "Brave Feline" thanks you for your experience.

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Kindling is a nonevidenced myth used to label intense withdrawal symptoms - see many of my posts for details. I am a biochemist and my friend who is a psychopharmacologist also agrees as do all the Benzo support groups in the UK.

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Thanks for the info. I was leaning towards it being a symptom of having doses bounced around exacerbating things, however I am merely a geologist and organic chemistry is so much more complex than what I dealt with. XD

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"Kindling" is a poorly researched, and not widely accepted, term to describe increased difficulty in discontinuing psych meds after repeated withdrawals.  In the worst case, if it is a real phenomonon, it is NOT very common.

 

Mostly, its just another scary word like( tolerance withdrawal, acute, protracted, etc.) to make the withdrawal process even more intimidating than ir might otherwise be.

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"Kindling" is a poorly researched, and not widely accepted, term to describe increased difficulty in discontinuing psych meds after repeated withdrawals.  In the worst case, if it is a real phenomonon, it is NOT very common.

 

Mostly, its just another scary word like( tolerance withdrawal, acute, protracted, etc.) to make the withdrawal process even more intimidating than ir might otherwise be.

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I hate the word Kindling so much as it connotates

so much fear ( and I still use the word in my signature; go figure)

 

As I have so many physical sxs left over from my

ativan withdrawal debacle

  I am finding it extremely difficult to taper

a second time around off of kolonopin

because of these existing sxs.  ...

.BUT i made many errors upon

my reinstatement too....

 

I think a better word to describe the situation

would be an overly "sensitized" CNS that is more fragile

and prone to side effects etc; complicated by other factors .

.. Even though I was hypersensitive before benzos

It just brought it to another level

 

I keep kindling in my signature though as

that's what most people would identify me as