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Hello! So I am wondering if anyone is using medication to make tapering/withdrawals easier?

I'm hesitant to take more pills but on the other hand, I'm miserable and terrified. Maybe there's something that will take the edge off?

Thanks friends....

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my sister was given Vistaril at the hospital and it helped. Pumkin here has posted on it on another thread. We are going to try to get some for my sister to use at home, as her anxiety/terror is no longer managable. Apparently Vistaril is not a psychotropic drug, not addictive, more like an antihistamine, but it calms
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I started taking gabapentin and it has really helped with the withdrawals.  I took it as a last resort to get off the rest of the klonopin and after too many failed tapers to count.  It works really well, but has it's own risks too and some say it's similar to get off of as benzos so that's something to consider.  My psych is very willing to write gaba scripts and not so willing to write benzo scripts, so it's what I have to do for now.  Good luck in whatever you decide.
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Remeron, helps with sleep, somewhat with anxiety, and nausea.

 

Weight gain is an issue for some. I have not experienced that.

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I was given low dose Remeron  to sleep, gain weight and to take the edge of in the beginning. Well now I've definitely gained the weight and slowly getting off the Remeron. I was also given gabapentin originally for severe muscle pain. I have no trouble with it. Can basically now take it or leave it. It's also good to help you sleep. But like many drugs you have to weigh the benefits over risk. Personally I'm very glad I have both. They've made my taper much easier in many ways. So the benefits were definitely worth it. B
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I'm so glad I didn't take any more crap my doctor was peddling to me while I was in my taper and for a little while after I jumped.. I kept saying, "NO"..

 

If you take something extra, you'll just have to go through the pain of tapering it later.. I did a second taper off of risperdal about 5.5 months after I was done with clonazepam and it was not any fun at all... very scary.

 

there are no magic bullets to make this easier.. "there is no such thing as a free lunch"..

 

 

Eric

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Since you at such a low dose, why take more drugs ?

 

Drugs like gabapentin and Lyrica often help when tapering, but you are near the end of your taper.

 

I don't know what could help you. Maybe a low dose of sedating antidpsychotics or antidepressants if insomnia is the issue, but these drugs can also harm.

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i started gabapentin for a while, ended up on 1800mg, was still pretty much a wreck and decided, what am i doing? this stuff is for nerve pain and seizures. the gaba was just more fog in the mix so i quickly tapered off. getting down to 900mg wasnt bad then it became its own pain in the ass right in the middle of a diazepam taper. 900-300mg was quite unpleasant.

 

im refusing any other drugs while on this taper, they really only barely mask the real issue for me, its kinda pointless, my goal is to be CLEAN of all this crap, not jump around on dependencies.

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Be careful with antidepressants. They have lots of side effects and can really screw with an already sensitized nervous system. Most have an unbearable 4 week come up period which you probably won't comply with in benzo wd. They can then have their own withdrawal syndrome just as bad as benzos for certain people, switching one poison for other. You might as well just do a slower taper.

 

Antihistamines are the bread and butter for sleep.

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Honestly I've had some good luck with CBD oil. I was cautiously optimistic but it's helped out quite a bit. It's not like it masked the withdrawals 100%, but instead of being at 2/10 all day I feel more like 8/10 with a few bouts of crummyness sprinkled around.

It's not psychoactive and shouldnt cause any difficulties stopping it, I used to smoke a copious amount of weed every day for years and stopped cold turkey without any issues. Granted the CBD concentrations were likely different.

Best wishes.

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Be careful with antidepressants. They have lots of side effects and can really screw with an already sensitized nervous system. Most have an unbearable 4 week come up period which you probably won't comply with in benzo wd. They can then have their own withdrawal syndrome just as bad as benzos for certain people, switching one poison for other. You might as well just do a slower taper.

 

Alienresources--Thanks for your thoughts here. I've been posting here and on a Lyme forum about my sister and there have been a couple of comments on how we should get a psychiatrist's help for my sisters severe depression, which would mean another anti-depressant drug (they only know drugs), which was what caused her depression in the first place.  You reinforced my belief that this would not be helpful in the long run--and maybe what you said about an already sensitive nervous system is another reason.  We noticed that a certain supplement she used to have no problem with (phosphatidyl serine, for calming effect when she had Fibro/CFS), caused really bad effect while trying to get off this Ativan poison.

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