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As I slowly keep lowering my medication my agoraphobia anxiety and panic seems to be getting worse, what do I do? These problems is what made me get on the Xanax in the first place, and it helped for many years still does, everyone is telling me I need to stay on the Xanax for the rest of my life to have a life. My girlfriend is ready to tell me to take a hike because I don't do anything fun with her, I'm practically panic stricken to go anywhere.. please help, what to do?
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Also I forgot to mention i am now down to 3/4 of a .25 morning, and night, and a 1/4 of a .25 at noon.

 

I felt my best at .5 three times a day for many years.. it is when I cut to half that is when things are getting difficult..

 

also the last couple of months I seem to have lost my short-term memory and my sense of direction I get lost very easy driving and avoiding the highway now.

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Those are all definite signs of withdrawal.  I think it might help if you go slower.  Have you thought about a daily liquid micro taper?  Do you have a support system in place?
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As I slowly keep lowering my medication my agoraphobia anxiety and panic seems to be getting worse, what do I do? These problems is what made me get on the Xanax in the first place, and it helped for many years still does, everyone is telling me I need to stay on the Xanax for the rest of my life to have a life. My girlfriend is ready to tell me to take a hike because I don't do anything fun with her, I'm practically panic stricken to go anywhere.. please help, what to do?

 

Withdrawal will make these worse, but the underlying cause will remain unless it is medicinally treated some other way and/or addressed through psychotherapy. For what it is worth, the same is happening to me as I get lower. I had some mild agoraphobia and social anxiety before benzos. However, when trying to get off or when in tolerance, the problem magnified 20 fold.

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Thank you for replying so what do I do in this case do I up my dose a little or go on something else added to it?

 

 

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Thank you for replying so what do I do in this case do I up my dose a little or go on something else added to it?

 

I can't advise. I think everyone has to evaluate their quality of life w/o medications and determine if it is better with medications or not. I'm still in the "finding out" stage, I guess.

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