Wanting to start lorazepam taper

[[ze...]]

Hello, what is the recommended taper schedule for benzos? I've read that the Ashton method is actually too fast.

[[Br...]]

Hello zeromg - welcome to BenzoBuddies!

 

We'll be glad to help you plan a careful taper off lorazepam.  You'll find plenty of good information here.  This is a community that understands what this process is like.

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I suggest you start a thread with your taper questions on Planning Your Withdrawal (Taper Plans)

 

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[[ze...]]

Thank you. I got the answer to my original question. I'm wondering now how small the compounding pharmacies can make the dose decreases for lorazepam. Towards the end of the taper, are we decreasing by thousandths of a milligram, hundredths, or what?

[[Br...]]

I don't know the answer but I'll reach out to the team and see if we can find you an answer.

[[je...]]

Hi zeromg

 

The lowest reductions we usually make is 0.001mg. It becomes extremely difficult to make smaller reductions than this and still be somewhat accurate.

[[ze...]]

Thanks. Wow that's really small. The tapers must take years.

[[Br...]]

You may want to check out this board and see what dose people are aiming to end with - Ativan Tapering Thread

 

Also, dude 66 has posted about his water taper off lorazepam http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=206467;area=showposts

 

If you want input on your taper I think you'll get more responses if you start a thread on  the taper board - it gets more traffic than the Introductions board: Planning Your Withdrawal (Taper Plans)

[[je...]]

Thanks. Wow that's really small. The tapers must take years.

 

Just because we can doesn't mean we do. At the higher doses we taper bigger at the smaller doses we taper smaller. I only started tapering 0.001mg (every day for 7 days holding 3 days) once I reached 0.125mg. This took me roughly 4 months to taper. Some people even go faster at the lower numbers. It all depends on your symptoms and whether you can remain functional.

[[ze...]]

thanks everyone for the info