Feeling better as I reduce. Can anyone explain this?

[[St...]]

So I started my K taper in April.  GI symptoms hit hard in June through July.  Got down to around 2.2 ish, and I said uncle and up dosed to 2.5.  Stabilized with GI but started having insomnia.  Decided to cut again mid August.  Made a slight daily reduction (like .8%), and it all went haywire again with GI.  In September I up dosed back to my original 3 mg dose, and figured I needed to rethink my daily taper pace after I stabilized.  However, at 3mg I just kept getting worse with GI symptoms and insomnia.  Couldn't stand either of those anymore and confused as to what to do.  So, I sort of said screw it, get me off this poison and started daily microtapering again 10 days ago at a faster rate.

 

I'm currently at 2.725 mg, and all withdrawal symptoms have been gone for a week.  Say what?  I don't get it.  Why would my withdrawal symptoms go away?  Shouldn't they have become worse since I wasn't stable when I said screw it and started reducing again at a faster rate?  What in the world is going on?  I mean this is great for sure, but it just doesn't make sense. 

[[Gr...]]

That's so crazy.  I hope they stay away.

[[fi...]]

I don't have any answers STAR but....Take it!! take it!! enjoy!!

 

Your body clearly knew something and you listened so...happy for you

 

good to hear good stories on here from time to time too!!

 

hope it keeps up !!

[Guest [ou...]]

I can only think of 2 possible explanations.

 

1. Reverse tolerance.

2. You finally stabilized.

 

I hope for the 1st, but my money is on the 2nd.

[[Do...]]

It's not very common, but some people actually start to feel better as they lower their dose, and in some cases, jumping is a non-event.  Personally, I theorize that as you are lowering you benzo intake, for some people, their nervous system kicks back into gear and restabilizes itself as the level of benzos in your system is being lowered.  Good luck, and I hope you continue to improve!

[[St...]]

So so strange.  So here I am at almost 2 weeks into the new taper.  Today's dose was 2.675.  And I still feel great.  Every other time I've tried to come off this benzo (I've seriously lost count on how times I've tried in the past 2 years and on how many different methods), I have suffered immensely.  This time, when I was unstable at the start, it's like I'm not even reducing at all.

 

Reverse tolerance...hmmm....never heard of it.  Gosh that would be so awesome if it was the case.  If it's reverse tolerance, does that mean a person could speed up their taper?

[Guest [ou...]]

In theory, yes. I provided a link in my previous post.

But, if I were you, I wouldn't change anything.

Whatever you're doing seems to be working.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Regards.

[[pa...]]

This is my situation been tapering for three months and at a read pace. But know I've stabilized at 1mg with x drug and I have slight symptoms but nothing compared to on 1.5mg less than a week ago. Still kinda panicky and argoraphobia but I've always had those just not as bad.

[[pa...]]

Forgot to mention I was drinking heavily at the beginning of the taper.

[[Th...]]

This was my case as well but much lower dose. I started feeling better and my symptoms became smaller at the time I was less than 0.5 Klonopin equivalent. For me jump was not big deal either but I more or less continued as is after jump. Well it seems that slow tapering pays back already during the tapering and jump does not necessarily cause acute.