Dosage

[[Lo...]]

When is xanax a good time to jump? i see people mostly on valium or K but not to much xanax

[[Ro...]]

I was wondering that myself, Lovelyduck.

I have been tapering over a year and a half . I started at .25 mgs on Xanax and when I couldn't dry cut safely anymore, I've been getting compounded capsules.

 

I am now on .069 mgs and I taper .001 mgs/month.

I have a long way to go, at this rate, but I cannot go faster due to the symptoms.

 

I don't know if I will continue on till I get to .001 mgs compounded and then stop ! 

 

 

[[ly...]]

 

 

I jumped from xanax last week at .005mg

 

I think a lot depends on how your taper has been.  If you aren't having many problems, maybe you can jump off sooner than someone who has been very symptomatic throughout.  My thoughts are/were to go as low as possible.  I was never symptom-free but things were mild the last 6 months.  Earlier in my taper I was cutting too fast and wd was very bad.  It really wasn't any issue for me to taper longer and lower.  I thought "better safe than sorry".

[[Lo...]]

 

 

I jumped from xanax last week at .005mg

 

I think a lot depends on how your taper has been.  If you aren't having many problems, maybe you can jump off sooner than someone who has been very symptomatic throughout.  My thoughts are/were to go as low as possible.  I was never symptom-free but things were mild the last 6 months.  Earlier in my taper I was cutting too fast and wd was very bad.  It really wasn't any issue for me to taper longer and lower.  I thought "better safe than sorry".

 

i cut my 0.25mg in half to get the 0.125mg I'm not sure how to get lower then this unless i cut that in half but even that won't be accurate or "low enough"

[[ly...]]

 

 

I jumped from xanax last week at .005mg

 

I think a lot depends on how your taper has been.  If you aren't having many problems, maybe you can jump off sooner than someone who has been very symptomatic throughout.  My thoughts are/were to go as low as possible.  I was never symptom-free but things were mild the last 6 months.  Earlier in my taper I was cutting too fast and wd was very bad.  It really wasn't any issue for me to taper longer and lower.  I thought "better safe than sorry".

 

i cut my 0.25mg in half to get the 0.125mg I'm not sure how to get lower then this unless i cut that in half but even that won't be accurate or "low enough"

 

Where you able to drop from .25 directly to .125?  That's a big drop.  Well, it should be not too difficult to cut your .125 piece of a pill in half to get .0625.  I actually cut the .25's into 8ths.  1/8 is .03 and I was cutting by that amount fr awhile.  I had to go to liquid at around .10mg.  The titration board folks can help you with liquid if you want to go lower/slower.  I do think you can cut the pills close enough to reduce by .03mg.  It's not exact but can be close enough.  That way you have the option to cut all the way down to .03 if you decide to.

[[Lo...]]

 

 

I jumped from xanax last week at .005mg

 

I think a lot depends on how your taper has been.  If you aren't having many problems, maybe you can jump off sooner than someone who has been very symptomatic throughout.  My thoughts are/were to go as low as possible.  I was never symptom-free but things were mild the last 6 months.  Earlier in my taper I was cutting too fast and wd was very bad.  It really wasn't any issue for me to taper longer and lower.  I thought "better safe than sorry".

 

i cut my 0.25mg in half to get the 0.125mg I'm not sure how to get lower then this unless i cut that in half but even that won't be accurate or "low enough"

 

Where you able to drop from .25 directly to .125?  That's a big drop.  Well, it should be not too difficult to cut your .125 piece of a pill in half to get .0625.  I actually cut the .25's into 8ths.  1/8 is .03 and I was cutting by that amount fr awhile.  I had to go to liquid at around .10mg.  The titration board folks can help you with liquid if you want to go lower/slower.  I do think you can cut the pills close enough to reduce by .03mg.  It's not exact but can be close enough.  That way you have the option to cut all the way down to .03 if you decide to.

 

Hell no that's probably why I'm struggling now with head pain, eye fatigue, horrible chest and rib pain & breathing problems. But I've been doing this for two weeks so can't turn back now

[[ly...]]

 

 

You might want to hold at that dose until you feel better and then, maybe, slow your taper a bit. 

[[Lo...]]

 

 

You might want to hold at that dose until you feel better and then, maybe, slow your taper a bit.

 

As much as I would want too hold I think I'm interdose withdrawing . Xanax is probably the fastest acting benzo and doesn't last long at all , so maybe I should continue to cut and jump soon ?

 

[[ly...]]

 

 

You might want to hold at that dose until you feel better and then, maybe, slow your taper a bit.

 

As much as I would want too hold I think I'm interdose withdrawing . Xanax is probably the fastest acting benzo and doesn't last long at all , so maybe I should continue to cut and jump soon ?

 

I think that would be a mistake.  I tapered xanax...slowly...and I'm fine.

[[Ca...]]

 

 

You might want to hold at that dose until you feel better and then, maybe, slow your taper a bit.

 

As much as I would want too hold I think I'm interdose withdrawing . Xanax is probably the fastest acting benzo and doesn't last long at all , so maybe I should continue to cut and jump soon ?

There was a time I had SX that imitated interdose WD, and that was way back when I was dosing V 2x day...  I think it was a therapeutic effect healing...  I forgot my dose and ended up staying on 1x day, with no probs...

-just info, not a suggestion...

 

I would tend to agree with Lynn on holding and speed...

Imagine what the body might think with NO medication too soon...

 

Best wishes...

[[Lo...]]

 

 

You might want to hold at that dose until you feel better and then, maybe, slow your taper a bit.

 

As much as I would want too hold I think I'm interdose withdrawing . Xanax is probably the fastest acting benzo and doesn't last long at all , so maybe I should continue to cut and jump soon ?

There was a time I had SX that imitated interdose WD, and that was way back when I was dosing V 2x day...  I think it was a therapeutic effect healing...  I forgot my dose and ended up staying on 1x day, with no probs...

-just info, not a suggestion...

 

I would tend to agree with Lynn on holding and speed...

Imagine what the body might think with NO medication too soon...

 

Best wishes...

 

At 0.125mg of xanax a day I'm just not sure what's it's doing for me honestly .

I feel like ever since I tapered to this my pulse has been racing

Heart palpitations had started up again and blood pressure has went way up .

I don't even wanna check my BP anymore because it sends me into panic .

They gave me a beta blocker but with how sensitive I am to meds I haven't even touched it . I want to try to get a normal regular BP med like lisinopril if need be .